IRS
INVESTIGATING
OBAMA’S
UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
: A speech
Senator Barack Obama
made at his church
a year ago
comes into question
by IRS
(February 29, 2008) 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. Obama, an Illinois Democrat, belongs to the 1.2 million-member Protestant group through his Chicago congregation.
In a letter the denomination received, the IRS said “reasonable belief exists” that the circumstances surrounding the speech videotaped, over steps restrictions on political activity for tax-exempt organizations. The denomination has denied any wrongdoing.
The IRS said in the letter that it was concerned about articles posted on the church’s website 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.”
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. UCC had invited Obama to speak a year before he announced he was running for president because of his involvement in the denomination, said Rev. J. Bennett Guess, a spokesman for the Cleveland-based denomination. The church leaders say that they consulted lawyers before the event and even told the crowd that the senator was not talking on campaign-related issues.
Lee ADDS: A TRUE Church DOES NOT endorse anyone NOT QUALIFIED to PRESIDE over AMERICA!
February 29th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
From http://www.ucctruths.com
Too many people are fooling themselves that Obama’s speech at the United Church of Christ General Synod wasn’t political… but it had everything to do with his political campaign. This is from the UCC website with the headline:
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Obama’s Synod speech will be ‘first major address on faith and politics as presidential candidate’:
Joshua DuBois, the Obama campaign’s director of religious affairs, said the senator’s Synod speech on Saturday will be his first major address on faith and politics as a presidential candidate.
The address, DuBois said, will combine personal details about Obama’s religious experiences with prescriptions for how religious Americans might put their faith into action.
It will also focus on “the growing movement of people of faith” from a variety of traditions, “coming together around our connections as a people and using those connections to address our common challenges,” DuBois said.
Shaun Casey, an adviser to the Obama campaign and a professor of ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., said he expects the address to be “as detailed an account of how a person’s faith shapes his policies as I have seen from any presidential candidate.”
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There is no doubt about it: the speech was clearly part of Obama’s campaign.
February 29th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
If ANY REPUBLICAN Candidate had the friends and connections that Obama had, that Republican would be CRUCIFIED by the Main Stream Media!
Due to the fact Obama is a LIBERAL he is getting a PASS! In a wrod, DESPICABLE.