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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

The new post-Johnson Amendment regime is bound to be helpful to Republicans but unlikely to advance the cause of religion.

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

The IRS said it no longer will enforce the Johnson Amendment that prevents churches and other nonprofits from endorsing ...

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 ...