Pastors who endorse political candidates shouldn't lose tax-exempt status, IRS says in filing

[SouthBayDem]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS says pastors who endorse political candidates from the pulpit should not have to risk losing their tax-exempt status.

The move effectively calls for a carve out for religious organizations from the rarely used IRS rule called the Johnson Amendment, put in place in 1954 and named after then-Sen. Lyndon Johnson.

In a joint court filing intended to end an ongoing case against the IRS, the tax collection agency and the National Religious Broadcasters Association — a Evangelical media consortium — and other plaintiffs have asked a federal court in Texas to stop the government from enforcing the Johnson Amendment against the plaintiffs.

The Johnson Amendment is a 1954 amendment to the U.S. tax code that prohibits tax-exempt organizations, including churches, from endorsing or opposing political candidates.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/irs-tax-trump-nonprofit-religion-courts-eee4b690ad475d5c8a52137c14cb03de

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Imams, Satanists, Wiccans - you know what to do!!

[Lovie777]

1. BUT...................

in the future churches starts supporting Democrats......................

It will be null and void.

Sincerely, IRS.

[PSPS]

2. Has any of them ever had their status revoked? They even hand out voting guides.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

3. Those "political pastors" are tap-dancing on the money tables with top hat & cane (or, Cain?)!

[elleng]

4. Yes they should.

What about those who ENDORSE???

[timms139]

5. Maybe not

taxed but they should be removed from the pulpit by the church for bringing the most evil thing into the pulpit being politics .

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cries the GOP

[republianmushroom]

7. True, they never should of had tax-exempt status, period.