IRS Implies Obama, not Church, to Blame for Misuse of Tax Exempt Resources

The Internal Revenue Service has cleared the United Church of Christ of accusations that it violated its tax exempt status by hosting Barack Obama’s “A Politics of Conscience.” The IRS’s letter to the United Church of Christ cites the same points that we did: even though Barack Obama’s “A Politics of Conscience” contained campaign-related content, the UCC did everything possible to prevent the Obama campaign from misusing its resources for electioneering. It would therefore be hardly fair to hold the United Church of Christ accountable for Barack Obama’s decision to break his word to his own church by giving a speech that described what he will do if he is elected President, as shown by the transcript of “A Politics of Conscience”...

Obama’s conduct reminds us of a caller to a talk radio show who, after indicating his understanding of Federal Communication Commission rules that ban profanity, spews a long series of F-bombs once he is on the air, thus getting the radio station into trouble. There are enough callers whose lack of character and maturity makes this a real possibility that there is a delay of several seconds between the time a person speaks and when the words are broadcast, and this allows the radio station to cut the sound if the F word or similar profanity is present. The United Church of Christ obviously felt that similar conduct from a United States Senator would be so inconcievable that there were no provisions for cutting Obama’s microphone, and the UCC was wrong. Obama did the equivalent of F-bombing his own church, thus causing its officers considerable stress and worry about what the IRS would do as a result. The IRS apparently reached the same conclusion:

The "F-bomb" scenario is an important analogy.

It is a matter of record, and the Internal Revenue Service is on record as agreeing, that the United Church of Christ told the Obama campaign ahead of time that no electioneering could take place at a church event. Obama and his staff indicated that they understood and agreed.

Obama then sat down and wrote (thus showing premeditation and malice aforethought) "A Politics of Conscience," which contained extensive campaign-related content in contravention of the rules to which he had agreed. He then delivered this campaign speech and got the United Church of Christ into trouble with the IRS.

Obama's conduct can therefore be compared not merely to someone who calls a talk show, but who appears on it as an invited speaker, and who indicates his understanding of FCC regulsations that prohibit on-the-air profanity. Once the microphone is in his hand, though, he launches into a tirade that includes many of the prohibited words, thus getting the radio station into trouble. The key concept is a deliberate and willful betrayal of another person's or organization's trust, thus demonstrating a total lack of fitness to be trusted with the most important office in the world.

The law that prohibits churches and clergy (but NOT any other tax-exempt organization!) from political speech is a vile legacy from LBJ! Stung by overwhelming criticism from clergy about his corruption, LBJ fathered this bill in 1954 to silence his most effective critics! The law is clearly unconstitutional both as an infringement on freedom of speech, and as government interference in religion, both being First Amendment violations, and because of its unequal treatment of tax-exempt organizations. The law hasn't yet been challenged by the churches out of fear of losing their important tax-exemptions.
However, that's about to change, there is a nationwide movement to start disobeying this law starting in September! Several conservative legal defense organizations have stepped up to offer their services to take this all the way to SCOTUS, where it should be a slam-dunk victory.
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20080510/32319_Pastors_Encouraged_to_Challenge_IRS_Ban_on_Political_Preaching.htm

Oh please... What at all did the UCC do to prevent Obama from using the occasion to campaign?

>> the UCC did everything possible to prevent the Obama campaign from misusing its resources for electioneering. It would therefore be hardly fair to hold the United Church of Christ accountable for Barack Obama’s decision to break his word to his own church by giving a speech that described what he will do if he is elected President, as shown by the transcript of “A Politics of Conscience”... <<

>>... The United Church of Christ obviously felt that similar conduct from a United States Senator would be so inconcievable that there were no provisions for cutting Obama’s microphone, and the UCC was wrong. <<

Inconceivable that a shiftless politician running for president would talk politics? I do not think that word means what the IRS seems to think that word means.

QUOTES FROM BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA’S BOOKS

Disdain for whites:
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From Dreams of My Father, “ I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER’S RACE”.

From ‘Dreams of my Father’, “THE EMOTION BETWEEN THE RACES COULD NEVER BE PURE...THE OTHER RACE WOULD ALWAYS REMAIN JUST THAT; MENACING, ALIEN AND APART.”

From ‘Dreams of My Father’,
“I CEASED TO ADVERTISE MY MOTHER’S RACE AT THE AGE OF 12 OR 13, WHEN I BEGAN TO SUSPECT THAT BY DOING SO I WAS INGRATIATING MYSELF TO WHITES.”

From Dreams Of My Father, “NEVER EMULATE THE WHITE MEN and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. IT WAS INTO MY FATHER’S IMAGE, THE BLACK MAN, SON OF AFRICA, THAT I’D PACKED ALL THE ATTRIBUTES I SOUGHT IN MYSELF”.

From Dreams Of My Father:
“THAT HATE HADN’T GONE AWAY,” he wrote, BLAMING “WHITE PEOPLE— some cruel, some IGNORANT, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives.”

From Dreams Of My Father;
“There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs,” he wrote. “IT REMAINED NECESSARY TO PROVE WHICH SIDE YOU WERE ON, TO SHOW YOUR LOYALTY TO THE BLACK MASSES, TO STRIKE OUT, AND NAME NAMES. “

From Dreams Of My Father, “I HAD GROWN ACCUSTOMED , everywhere, TO SUSPICIONS BETWEEN THE RACES.”

Appreciation of Islam:
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Quote from Barack Obama’s book, Dreams Of My Father:
“THE PERSON WHO MADE ME PROUDEST OF ALL, though, was [HALF BROTHER ] ROY .. HE CONVERTED TO ISLAM” .

From ‘Dreams of my Father’, “IN INDONESIA, I HAD SPENT TWO YEARS AT A MUSLIM SCHOOL.”
“I STUDIED THE KORAN.”

From ‘Audacity of Hope: “LOLO (Obama’s step father) FOLLOWED .. ISLAM...” “I LOOKED TO LOLO FOR GUIDANCE”.

From ‘The Audacity Of Hope, “I WILL STAND WITH THE MUSLIMS SHOULD THE POLITICAL WINDS SHIFT IN AN UGLY DIRECTION.”

From The Audacity Of Hope, “WE ARE NO LONGER just A CHRISTIAN NATION..We ARE also a Jewish nation, A MUSLIM NATION, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.”

http://www.examiner.com/a-534540~Can_a_past_of_Islam_change_the_path_to_president_for_Obama_.html?cid=dc-article-obama
http://www.examiner.com/a-536474~_Trapped_between_two_worlds_.html
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The same kind of terrorists who support Obama did this:
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/
Never apologize for them.
Never appease them.
Never forget.

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Obama Effectively F-Bombed His Own Church with Improper Campaign Speech

The "F-bomb" scenario is an important analogy.