Thanks to the ACLJ’s advocacy, pastors can now speak freely from the pulpit about political candidates without fear of IRS ...

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 ...

There’s only one known instance of a church losing its tax-exempt status because it violated the Johnson Amendment, but ...

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

There is nothing preventing the IRS from deciding to enforce the Johnson Amendment again and perhaps doing so selectively.

Many people don’t want their religious leaders to tell them how to vote. In the current deeply divided political moment, that ...

Clergy urged to refrain from backing candidates in pulpit, despite change in federal-tax policy that now allows them to do so ...

Repealing a 71 year-old law, the IRS is now allowing churches to endorse political candidates without losing their tax-exempt status after a federal ...

In 2024, two churches and a religious organization filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), claiming that ...

The I.R.S. has cleared faith leaders to endorse political candidates to their congregations. New York clergy are wrestling with the choice to use their newfound influence.

"Granting this carve-out to churches might seem narrow, but the exemption would lay the groundwork for future efforts to expand partisan activity across the nonprofit sector," Marie Ellis of the ...