US IRS says churches can endorse political candidates

The IRS says a decades-old ban on campaigning by tax-exempt groups should not apply to houses of worship speaking to their own members. ⛪️🕌🕍🛕 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/politics/irs-churches-politics-endorse-candidates.html

Horrendous. It pressures clergy to be partisan, religious institutions to care more about polls than prayer. "I have a great idea! Let's take the one unifying institution in America and make it divisive!" Ach... www.cnbc.com/2025/07/08/irs-church-candidates-tax-politics.html

You: I don't know why you follow random seemingly inconsequential small ball court dockets for three years that no one else does. Me: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/politics/irs-churches-politics-endorse-candidates.html

IRS to allow churches to endorse political candidates: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/politics/irs-churches-politics-endorse-candidates.html (via @nytimes) Politics is already common at the pulpit: In the fall of 2020, two-thirds of churches studied by @pewresearch heard a sermon mentioning the election: www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/07/08/pastors-often-discussed-election-pandemic-and-racism-in-fall-of-2020/ pic.x.com/h7ifNxAoFQ