[The_Media_never_lie]

I’ve never heard anyone even try to make the case that “black churches” were anything but political organizations; when is the last time a great theological mind emerged from a “black church”?

So, if they are openly political organizations, why are they tax exempt?

Why then, are the white churches threatened with the loss of their tax exempt status (happens all the time)?

[kearnyirish2]

“So, if they are openly political organizations, why are they tax exempt?

Why then, are the white churches threatened with the loss of their tax exempt status (happens all the time)?”

They are tax exempt because blacks continue to enjoy “preferred minority” status. As for “white churches”, they can go much farther than they do politically without endangering their tax-exempt status (in terms of preaching family values, against abortion, etc.); the fact that they don’t leads me to believe that their leadership simply doesn’t support those positions.