Exhibit 435 · Court filing
National Religious Broadcasters v. Long, No. 6:24-cv-00311 (E.D. Tex.), Joint Motion for Entry of Consent Judgment (ECF 35) with proposed order (ECF 35-1)
When a house of worship in good faith speaks to its congregation, through its customary channels of communication on matters of faith in connection with religious services, concerning electoral politics viewed through the lens of religious faith, it neither “participate[s]” nor “intervene[s]” in a “political campaign,” within the ordinary meaning of those words.
Joint motion by the plaintiffs (two churches and two organizations) and the IRS asking the court to enter a consent judgment that the Johnson Amendment does not reach a house of worship's speech to its congregation in connection with religious services through customary channels, and to enjoin enforcement against the two plaintiff churches only (ECF 35-1 para. 7). Says the IRS "generally has not enforced" the clause against houses of worship for such speech (para. 8).
- Source
- Plaintiffs and Defendants (IRS), U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
- Date
- 7 July 2025
- Quoted from
- ECF 35, para. 7 (repeated in ECF 35-1, para. 3)
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txed.232590/gov.uscourts.txed.232590.35.0.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit