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Nearly 1000 nonprofits have signed a letter against changes proposed by the IRS to a long-standing ban on churches endorsing politicians.
Churches could soon be allowed to back political candidates, legally. The IRS is re-examining a decades-old ban on campaign ...
Creating exemption for houses of worship will spill over to nonprofit sector and interfere with nonpartisan nature of ...
The IRS will let churches endorse candidates from the pulpit, overthrowing six decades of nonprofit regulation. It's a move ...
At a moment when so many universities and public institutions struggle to remain above the ideological fray, churches and ...
Organizations around the country are raising red flags over political endorsements from the pulpit, warning of a sea change ...
When the IRS announced recently that it would not enforce a section of federal law commonly called the Johnson Amendment, many clerics rejoiced. The Johnson Amendment — named for its author, then-Sen.
Free speech doesn’t stop at the church door,” writes former Broward GOP executive director Lauren Cooley. The IRS’ recent ...
The IRS will offer religious congregations more freedom to endorse political candidates without jeopardizing their tax-exempt ...
The Johnson Amendment, passed by Congress in 1954 and named for Lyndon Johnson, then a U.S. senator, is a provision in the tax code that prohibits tax-exempt organizations from openly supporting ...