For more than 70 years, federal law has prohibited pastors, priests, rabbis, and imams from endorsing political candidates from the pulpit. Now the IRS is letting it be known that it has no intention of enforcing that ban.

That’s what the IRS now claims, in a reversal from Biden-era positions. Could this embolden critics of religious liberty?

Coming soon to a church near you — dark money. A policy change by the Trump administration could have large impacts on churches throughout Montana and the country. And in a state that has been at the fore of trying to eliminate political “dark money” — or funds that are

The top House Republican argued the phrase “separation of church and state” was a personal adage from Thomas Jefferson meant to protect religious practices from government interference.

A reinterpretation of a tax rule signals that houses of worship may now be able to endorse political candidates without losing tax-exempt status.

Christian nationalism-embracing media figures cheered the IRS’ statement that the Johnson Amendment — a decades-old ban on tax-exempt nonprofits engaging in politics — should not apply to churches, celebrating that “churches will now be unshackled.

The Johnson Amendment has been used to chill free speech in churches. The IRS finally changed the rule in a recent decision.