Sharing a Church With Barack

The American Spectator ^ | 6/21/2007 | Jeffrey Lord

[Alex Murphy]

Barack Obama and I share the same church.

And since our joint church is celebrating its 50th birthday in Hartford, Connecticut from June 22nd-26th, he's coming to party. While I will be unable to attend the party, I am still looking forward to seeing whether Obama will dare to have the courage of Daniel in the lion's den and, as liberals love to say, "speak truth to power." Something tells me I shouldn't hold my breath.

We are in different physical churches, of course. The Illinois Senator and Democratic presidential candidate belongs to Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, while I sit in the pews of the Chapel Hill United Church of Christ in Pennsylvania. But it is indeed the same denomination that will be having its General Synod in Connecticut over the upcoming several days, and Obama is the featured speaker, bracketed by appearances from PBS's favorite liberal Bill Moyers and activist Marian Wright Edelman.

For those not familiar with the UCC, it is not only the modern day version of several of America's oldest Protestant denominations (fifty years ago the UCC came into being as the result of a union between Congregationalists and the Evangelical and Reform churches) at the national level it is also -- well -- politically liberal. Very liberal. Actually, hard core left-wing would be a fair description.

Doubtless you are wondering what in the world a Reaganite conservative is doing in this kind of a church. Once upon a time I wondered that myself. Accident of birth in the general vicinity of the Pilgrims and Puritans (the founders of the Congregational Church in America) was the start....

[weegee]

"...expressing astonishment that church funds from members who were Reagan and Bork supporters were used in such a cavalier and decidedly political fashion to oppose both a president and a Supreme Court nominee these members very much supported."

Report the UCC to the IRS. They commit tax fraud. The 501C3 tax status should be revoked for engaging in political advocacy for/against a party/candidate/or piece of pending legislation.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

What about the denominations liberal theology? Is the author fine with that just so long as they are doing charity work?