Quote:Churches and other houses of worship registered as tax-exempt nonprofits can endorse political candidates to their congregations, the IRS said on Monday.

The decision, first reported in The New York Times, was communicated in a court filing intended to settle a lawsuit filed by two Texas churches and a group of Christian broadcasters.

501©(3) nonprofit organizations have long been prohibited from endorsing candidates or otherwise intervening in campaigns for political offices as a condition of their tax-exempt status.

In its court filing, the IRS said endorsing candidates neither constituted taking part or intervening in a political campaign, as the agency’s code currently describes.

“Bona fide communications internal to a house of worship, between the house of worship and its congregation, in connection with religious services, do neither of those things, any more
than does a family discussion concerning candidates,” the agency wrote.

The IRS also noted that it has not generally enforced prohibitions on endorsing candidates, referred to as the Johnson Amendment, in the context of worship services. A 2022 investigation by ProPublica and the Texas Tribune found that at least 18 churches had endorsed political candidates, and the agency largely looked the other way.

https://thehill.com/homenews/5389119-irs...andidates/

(July 8, 2025 at 10:01 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

Quote:Churches and other houses of worship registered as tax-exempt nonprofits can endorse political candidates to their congregations, the IRS said on Monday.

The decision, first reported in The New York Times, was communicated in a court filing intended to settle a lawsuit filed by two Texas churches and a group of Christian broadcasters.

501©(3) nonprofit organizations have long been prohibited from endorsing candidates or otherwise intervening in campaigns for political offices as a condition of their tax-exempt status.

In its court filing, the IRS said endorsing candidates neither constituted taking part or intervening in a political campaign, as the agency’s code currently describes.

“Bona fide communications internal to a house of worship, between the house of worship and its congregation, in connection with religious services, do neither of those things, any more
than does a family discussion concerning candidates,” the agency wrote.

The IRS also noted that it has not generally enforced prohibitions on endorsing candidates, referred to as the Johnson Amendment, in the context of worship services. A 2022 investigation by ProPublica and the Texas Tribune found that at least 18 churches had endorsed political candidates, and the agency largely looked the other way.

https://thehill.com/homenews/5389119-irs...andidates/

How the everlasting fuck is endorsing a candidate NOT ‘taking part or intervening in a political campaign”? Sheep do what the shepherd tells them to do.

Boru

(July 8, 2025 at 12:10 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: How the everlasting fuck is endorsing a candidate NOT ‘taking part or intervening in a political campaign”? Sheep do what the shepherd tells them to do.

Boru

Exactly. It's just one more indicator of how much control the religious have gotten control in our system.

(July 8, 2025 at 12:10 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(July 8, 2025 at 10:01 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: https://thehill.com/homenews/5389119-irs...andidates/

How the everlasting fuck is endorsing a candidate NOT ‘taking part or intervening in a political campaign”? Sheep do what the shepherd tells them to do.

Boru

Just before they get fleeced or eaten!

I don't watch southpark but I do appreciate skewering the Fanta Fascist while swiping at the evangelical "he gets us" campaign.

NSFW
https://southpark.cc.com/sites/hetrumpedus/index.html

8,8 earthquake off the coast of Kamchatka. Waves up to 5m hitting the coastline. In Japan (and China) its more like 1,3m. Hawaii on alert. Philippines and Indonesia are taking preventive action too, as are several latin lmerican states.

(July 30, 2025 at 5:06 am)Deesse23 Wrote: 8,8 earthquake off the coast of Kamchatka. Waves up to 5m hitting the coastline. In Japan (and China) its more like 1,3m. Hawaii on alert. Philippines and Indonesia are taking preventive action too, as are several latin lmerican states.

You cannot make this shit up...

You don't need to. Leave it to the uninformed public, they will outdo your agitprop department in an hour or so.

76 year old arrested on suspicion of poisoning children at a religious summer camp;
Man, 76, arrested as summer camp children fall ill

He apparently is not a good poisoner. Thank goodness.