The Internal Revenue Service made a statement on Monday that would allow churches to support political candidates of their choice without losing their tax-exempt status, overturning decades of ...

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 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 ...