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The rule was introduced by former President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1954 when he was serving as the U.S. Senate majority leader.
Two East Texas churches, Sand Springs Church in Athens and First Baptist Church Waskom, were among the plaintiffs in the ...
The Department of Health and Human Services said it will reclassify those programs as federal public benefits, restricting ...
The Internal Revenue Service s recent declaration that it will not prohibit churches and pastors from endorsing political ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.
Lyndon B. Johnson became president after JFK was assassinated. In the White House, he passed bills prohibiting discrimination, but the ongoing Vietnam War created controversy during his presidency.
A decades-old rule keeping churches from endorsing politicians was struck down in court. Here's what to know about the Johnson Amendment.
More than 50 years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson shocked Americans by announcing that he would not seek a second full term as president.
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 ...
Are those really LBJ’s footprints in concrete at Minnehaha Falls? President Lyndon B. Johnson visited the Minneapolis waterfall in 1964.
The IRS says it's OK for churches to endorse political candidates without risking their tax-exempt status, but local pastors ...