“CLEVELAND (02/26/2008) — The Internal Revenue Service has notified the United Church of Christ’s national offices in Cleveland, Ohio, that the IRS has opened an investigation into U.S. Sen. Barack Obama’s address at the UCC’s 2007 General Synod as the church engaging in “political activities.”
In the IRS letter dated Feb. 20, the IRS said it was initiating a church tax inquiry “because reasonable belief exists that the United Church of Christ has engaged in political activities that could jeopardize its tax-exempt status.”
This reparations concept is intriguing. Does this mean that I will be getting royalty checks from all those who have benefited from the ideas and labor of my white, European ancestors?
This doesn’t sound like church, to me.
If TUCC is going to continue to use politics to fill its pews and collection plates then I think it should lose its tax exemption status.
And it looks like I am not alone in that thought…
http://www.ctucc.org/news/20080226_irsinquiry.html
“CLEVELAND (02/26/2008) — The Internal Revenue Service has notified the United Church of Christ’s national offices in Cleveland, Ohio, that the IRS has opened an investigation into U.S. Sen. Barack Obama’s address at the UCC’s 2007 General Synod as the church engaging in “political activities.”
In the IRS letter dated Feb. 20, the IRS said it was initiating a church tax inquiry “because reasonable belief exists that the United Church of Christ has engaged in political activities that could jeopardize its tax-exempt status.”
This reparations concept is intriguing. Does this mean that I will be getting royalty checks from all those who have benefited from the ideas and labor of my white, European ancestors?
Open up your 401(k) to me, bitch.
An interesting (to me) post on race and the 2008 presidential race:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_05/013824.php#more
Is that a sermon in church?
convincing video.