The rule was introduced by former President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1954 when he was serving as the U.S. Senate majority leader.

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 policy change reverses a ban on endorsing or opposing candidates by religious organizations known as the Johnson ...

Dark money may be heading to a church near you because the Trump administration has said it will no longer enforce the ...

A surprise move by the IRS that would allow pastors to back political candidates from the pulpit without losing their ...

The religious right has hoped for the repeal of the Johnson Amendment since at least 2007, but for practical purposes the measure has only been truly endangered since the 2017 National Prayer ...

THE CONVERSATION — Churches and other houses of worship can endorse political candidates without risking the loss of their tax-exempt status, the Internal Revenue Service said in a legal document ...

The IRS declared in a recent federal court filing that churches may endorse political candidates to their congregations ...

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

Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma Poulson reed shared a message in support of the separation between Church and ...

"Ours is not a blue or red diocese, but a purple one, and above all, a Christian one." 2 News Oklahoma's Braden Bates shares ...