tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post210971576668882751..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: WSJ: "Obama Pastors' Sermons May Violate Tax Laws"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61726868138181680462008-03-13T14:03:00.000-07:002008-03-13T14:03:00.000-07:00I'm finding I have a hard time thinking of any pol...I'm finding I have a hard time thinking of any policy I like less than having the fking IRS reviewing church sermons and teachings to decide whether they're acceptably apolitical. Why not assign a DHS political officer to each church, too, just to be sure?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-23612770021641346192008-03-11T14:16:00.000-07:002008-03-11T14:16:00.000-07:00Don't all the fundamentalist preachers that Bush's...Don't all the fundamentalist preachers that Bush's supporters follow do the same thing?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26259108549533424892008-03-11T13:21:00.000-07:002008-03-11T13:21:00.000-07:00Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. compared presidential can...<I>Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. compared presidential candidate Barack Obama's impoverished childhood to Jesus Christ's</I><BR/><BR/>This would be the childhood spent in Hawaii drinking booze, smoking dope, and scoring the occasional blow, all while listening to the marxist ravings of one <A HREF="http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/" REL="nofollow">Frank Marshall Davis</A>?<BR/><BR/>The only impoverishment I see in Obama's childhood was the moral & spirtual impoverishment from being abandoned by both his father & his mother, and being left to be raised by a bunch of marxist nutcases like his maternal grandparents & "Uncle Frank".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34895531324156473832008-03-11T10:07:00.000-07:002008-03-11T10:07:00.000-07:00On Christmas morning, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. com...<I>On Christmas morning, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. compared presidential candidate Barack Obama's impoverished childhood to Jesus Christ's. "Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people," he then trumpeted. "Hillary [Clinton] can never know that."</I><BR/><BR/>I'm feeling the spirit of racial unity and non-divisiveness already.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16561859062459670802008-03-11T05:57:00.000-07:002008-03-11T05:57:00.000-07:00a little late in the dayBetter late than never!Als...<I>a little late in the day</I><BR/>Better late than never!<BR/><BR/>Also, how bad does it look for a Harvard Law grad to get his church in trouble with the IRS? Did he not understand the rules, or just not care? Neither is good.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-64378671020739422272008-03-11T00:40:00.000-07:002008-03-11T00:40:00.000-07:00As James Fulford points out, it seems a little lat...<I>As James Fulford points out, it seems a little late in the day for the IRS to notice that black ministers routinely campaign for candidates from their pulpits. They've been doing it with impunity for generations.</I><BR/><BR/>Forget the focus on black churches. Trinity belongs to the United Church of Christ, which is not even a traditionally black church, but a white one. The UCC is one of several traditionally white churches that has all but forsaken doctrine for politics. Visit the UCC homepage and look at the top menu for the "Change the World" section. <A HREF="http://www.ucc.org/" REL="nofollow">The UCC homepage</A> mentions very little about what the church believes but digs deep into political teritory, with items about "Lesbian, gay, Bisexual and Transgender," "Meida Justice," "Racial/Ethnic Ministries," and "Refugee Ministries." It also has a section on "100,000 People for Peace."<BR/><BR/>Exhibit B is the Unitarian-Universalist Association, which at least doesn't have the gall to call itself a church anymore but which, I'm quite certain, enjoys the tax and (non-)reporting benefits of one.<BR/><BR/>Exhibit C is the homepage for <A HREF="http://www.judson.org/index.html" REL="nofollow">Judson Memorial Church.</A> Judson's "pastor" is one Donna Schaper, a list of whose 2007 sermons can be seen <A HREF="http://www.judson.org/sermons_2007_date.html" REL="nofollow">here</A> (note the fairly secular list of subjects). Well, not all of the 2007 sermons are there. Notice the start date: June 3, 2007. Why that's so is an interesting story.<BR/><BR/>The Rev. Donna Schaper is an active member of the "New Sanctuary Movement," a group of churches pressing for amnesty for illegal aliens. She wrote an editorial about it this summer which I happened to read and to comment on. My comments noted that Judson's homepage listed "Worship" below "Peace & Justice" (i.e., political activism) and included people engaged in political acts but not a single picture depicting the church or, well, worshipping. <BR/><BR/>I also happened to read the sermon given just prior to Memorial Day, which was not very charitable to those who gave our lives for our country. Not long after my comments I revisited the site and noted a few changes, including the removal of all sermons prior to June (including the offending Memorial Day sermon), the reordering of the menu to list "Worship" above "Peace and Justice," and the addition, in the banner, of a single picture of the church, followed by multiple pictures of folks engaging in political demonstrations.<BR/><BR/>The reality of it is that these "churches" are deliberately abusing government inaction. They engage in political acts under the guise of (tax-exempt) worship. Conservatives tend not to do so either because they don't believe in sullying religion with politics or because they know (recall the Clinton Administration's devouring of the Christian Coalition) that the government will come down hard. But these groups slide by from year to year with nary a worry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com