IRS Investigating Hussein's United Church Of Christ

[MrSanity]

IRS Investigating Obama's United Church Of Christ

Says Reason To Believe Speech Violated Restrictions On Political Activity By Non-Profit Groups

NEW YORK (CBS/AP) ― The IRS is investigating the United Church of Christ over a speech Sen. Barack Obama gave at its national meeting last year after he became a candidate for president, the denomination said Tuesday.

Obama, an Illinois Democrat, belongs to the 1.2 million-member Protestant group through his Chicago congregation.

In a letter the denomination received Monday, the IRS said "reasonable belief exists" that the circumstances surrounding the speech violated restrictions on political activity for tax-exempt organizations. The denomination has denied any wrongdoing.

Obama, a member of Trinity United Church of Christ, spoke about faith and public life at the denomination's June 2007 General Synod in Hartford, Conn.

The IRS said in the letter that it was concerned about articles posted on the church's Web site and on other sites stating that Obama had addressed nearly 10,000 people at the event. The agency also said Obama volunteers had staffed campaign tables "outside the center to promote his campaign."

More. (http://wcbstv.com/campaign08/barack.obama.irs.2.663504.html)

I wouldn't be surprised. The UCC is a "Christian" church with the worldview of the ACLU.

[Jack_Savage]

Good post. That church and Obamas connection to it needs alot more investigation. I don't know that much about the so called Pastor, but from the little bit I heard him say, it was racist and scary if that is what is headed to the peoples White House.

Or, as Obama referred to the office when he won Wisconsin, My White House.

[DeclinetoState]

The IRS is investigating B.H. Obama's church?

I hope both sides lose.

[ThomasMore]

It sounds like the entire UCC denomination is being investigated, not Trinity UCC in Chicago.

I am not too enamored about the United Church of Christ's version of Christianity.

In the United Church of Christ, creeds, confessions, and affirmations of faith function as "testimonies to faith" around which the church gathers rather than as "tests of faith" rigidly prescribing required doctrinal consent.

Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Church_of_Christ)

In other words, Moses delivered the "ten suggestions."

Apparently, the UCC is also associated with the leftist, political World Council of Churches.

[DeclinetoState]

There are many entire Protestant "churches" (not just individual congregations) that take a very liberal view of Christianity. There are also movements within the Catholic Church, as well as movements within other, more nominally conservative Protestant churches, that do likewise.