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 ...

The Johnson Amendment has been used to chill free speech in churches. The IRS finally changed the rule in a recent decision.

The rule was introduced by former President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1954 when he was serving as the U.S. Senate majority leader. It banned all tax-exempt organizations like churches and charities from ...

I still won’t be. Because it wasn’t fear of jeopardizing my church’s tax exempt status that kept me quiet. It was fear of God ...

So why, citing religious freedom concerns, did the IRS advance an interpretation of the law that allows churches to do just ...

For more than 70 years, federal law has prohibited pastors, priests, rabbis, and imams from endorsing political candidates from the pulpit. Now the IRS is letting it be known that it has no intention ...

Ohio churches are having mixed reactions to news that the Internal Revenue Service will relax enforcement of the ban on ...

A policy change by the Trump administration could have large impacts on churches throughout Montana and the country. And in a ...

Churches and other houses of worship can endorse political candidates without risking the loss of their tax-exempt status, ...

The majority of the Founders ... were determined to prevent the official establishment of any single national denomination or religion.

The Internal Revenue Service is proposing to give churches a greater role in politics, allowing them to endorse or speak ...