A reinterpretation of a tax rule signals that houses of worship may now be able to endorse political candidates without ...

Two East Texas churches, Sand Springs Church in Athens and First Baptist Church Waskom, were among the plaintiffs in the ...

A decades-old rule keeping churches from endorsing politicians was struck down in court. Here's what to know about the Johnson Amendment.

If a judge approves a proposed court order, the IRS will soon allow churches to endorse candidates from the pulpit again ...

The Internal Revenue Service’s proposed consent decree with religious organizations to allow churches to speak about ...

By interpreting political discussions during worship as private conversations, the IRS creates a loophole that will lead to ...

In court filings July 7, the IRS has largely backed down on a decades-old rule that barred churches from engaging in ...

We asked several Utah faith leaders if they would endorse a political candidate from the pulpit after the Internal Revenue Service said in a court filing this week that they could. Here's what they ...

The Johnson Amendment is a 1954 law signed by then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower and named for then-Texas Sen. Lyndon Johnson.

The new IRS interpretation came after decades of debate and, most recently, lawsuits from the National Religious Broadcasters ...

The Johnson Amendment is part of the tax code, so to completely remove it would take an act of Congress. Advertisement “If he ‘totally destroys’ the Johnson Amendment, ...

Instead of trying to repeal the amendment, legislators appear to be targeting it through a spending bill that says the IRS can’t use funds to investigate a church for breach of the Johnson ...