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“The current consent decree limits a non-profit’s permissible political activity to ‘ (b)ona fide communications internal to a house of worship, between the house of worship and its congregation in ...
Free speech doesn’t stop at the church door,” writes former Broward GOP executive director Lauren Cooley. The IRS’ recent ...
"Our faith should inform our vote. Our votes shouldn’t drive our faith," says religious liberty expert about the IRS filing that opened debate about political speech within a house of worship.
A 2019 survey by Pew Research found that 76% of Americans and 70% of Christians say clergy should not endorse candidates from ...
The Internal Revenue Services is reversing a long-standing policy and will now allow religious institutions to endorse ...
As if everyday life in these United States wasn’t politicized enough, your local house of worship could soon become a part of ...
In court filings Monday, the IRS has largely backed down on a decades-old rule that barred churches from engaging in ...
Thanks to the ACLJ’s advocacy, pastors can now speak freely from the pulpit about political candidates without fear of IRS ...
There’s only one known instance of a church losing its tax-exempt status because it violated the Johnson Amendment, but ...
A reinterpretation of a tax rule signals that houses of worship may now be able to endorse political candidates without losing tax-exempt status.
Despite the IRS lifting its ban on churches endorsing political candidates, I still won’t be. Because it wasn’t fear of ...
On Monday the IRS released a court filing reinterpreting the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits any tax-exempt nonprofit ...