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The rule was introduced by former President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1954 when he was serving as the U.S. Senate majority leader.
The Johnson Amendment has been used to chill free speech in churches. The IRS finally changed the rule in a recent decision.
There’s only one known instance of a church losing its tax-exempt status because it violated the Johnson Amendment, but ...
The policy change reverses a ban on endorsing or opposing candidates by religious organizations known as the Johnson ...
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A surprise move by the IRS that would allow pastors to back political candidates from the pulpit without losing their ...
Two East Texas churches, Sand Springs Church in Athens and First Baptist Church Waskom, were among the plaintiffs in the argument.
"Ours is not a blue or red diocese, but a purple one, and above all, a Christian one." 2 News Oklahoma's Braden Bates shares ...
"I knew the law was on our side," the pastor of Liberty Baptist Church said after the IRS stated in a court filing that ...
Nor was it just that right-wing ministers were expressing Republican-shaped views about everything from LGBTQ rights to tax laws from the pulpit. Outside church walls, the massive ecosphere of ...
The Internal Revenue Service’s proposed consent decree with religious organizations to allow churches to speak about ...
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Explícame on MSNIRS reduces tax restrictions on churches supporting political candidatesThe IRS now allows churches to support political candidates without losing tax-exempt status, raising both praise and ...
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