As usual, the Obama Campaign has a different set of rules from the rest of America. The same administration that has worked against Christians in several capacities is using their power to "educate" hundreds of black pastors on how to campaign for Obama from the pulpit without losing their tax exempt status.
Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) told MSNBC that IRS administrators, lawyers from the ACLU, and DOJ Attorney General Eric Holder will be speaking to pastors in the African-American community about "...the information they need to know about what they can say and what they cannot say in the church that would violate their 501c3 status with the IRS," said Cleaver.
Cleaver said they won't tell the pastors who to vote for, but they will talk about the "draconian" laws that "have cropped up around the country as a result of the 17 percent increase in African-American votes," said Cleaver. He believes that voter ID laws are the response and in the style of Jim Crow laws. He added that Obama will get 95 percent of the black vote. Does anyone believe this isn't all about the Obama Campaign? Please. Cleaver said through these pastors, they will reach around 10 million people!
Eric Holder cannot be un-biased. He has been very clear on his position, to the point of refusing to prosecute criminals because it "demeans [his] people." Holder isn't interested in fair voting for anyone but blacks. Is it fair for government agencies like the DOJ and the IRS to go in and direct these pastors how to do their bidding? What about their big separation of church and state? Or is this not an issue? Many African-American pastors were angry when he came out in favor of gay marriage, so maybe the Obama Campaign is trying to rectify the damage.
Cleaver said, "We want to let them know that there is a theological responsibility to participate in the political process, at least in the Judeo-Christian tradition." They have a lot of nerve telling Americas black pastors they have a "theological responsibility" to do anything. On April 8th, Cleaver said on Meet The Press, "Well, I-- I think we need to take God off the ballot." What unbelievable hypocrisy! Above all, the fact is that regardless of their reasons, taxpayers should not be paying for any of this!
© Margie Wilson-Mars 2012
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Comments: 74
A bit off topic, but it also drives me crazy when people criticize religious public officials (Rick Santorum) while conveniently ignoring those who regularly invoke Christianity to drive policy.
"Some [who] oppose immigration reform are sitting in those pews, and you have to tell them that this is a manifestation of our living the gospels" -Nancy Pelosi
"The Bible tells us in the Old Testament, 'To minister to the needs of God's creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.' -Nancy Pelosi (environmental agenda)
"For me as a Christian, it also coincides with Jesus's teaching that for unto whom much is given, much shall be required," Obama said, quoting the Gospel of Luke. (Tax agenda)
“From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.” -Howard Dean
"My religion has, compels me – and I love it for it – to be against discrimination of any kind in our country, and I consider this a form of discrimination. I think it's unconstitutional on top of that," (Gay Marriage) Pelosi said.
You mean name calling like caling someone senile?
I don't give a rat's ass if Obama is a Marxist, socialist, Muslim, baptist or atheist. I do care if he is a liar.
It's funny how liberals invoke the constitution only when it suits them.
I wasn't aware anyone ever invoked the constitution unless it suited them, and certainly not conservatives, who have a knack for invoking it even when it doesn't really suit them, because they don't understand it in the first place.
Or maybe the conservatives forget the meaning of democracy. Democracy to a conservative is insult, or imprison or deny rights to anyone who disagrees with conservatives.
John F. Kennedy, whose birthday was yesterday, had a great answer when asked about his religion. He said no one questioned his religion when he was fighting in the Pacific and no one questioned his brother Joe's religion when Joseph Kennedy Jr. died in England during World War II.
America was born as a place where all different types of people could find freedom. To quote a Merle Haggard song, “We stand tall. Americans All. No honor can be higher.”
I know your mantra is "repeat it enough and it isnt a lie" however noone really cared.
Liberals and most normal people dont care about things like this...extremist non christian like christians are the only ones that do.
Of COURSE you do, jj. No one ever doubted it. But I would hasten to note... Nobody is stopping Romney from persuading churches, black OR white, to do the same thing for him. And I'll bet you dollars to busted rocks that the LDS hierarchy will take full advantage of that.
The only actual limit on churches campaigning is an IRS evaluation that the church is using its tax-exempt status to influence politics. By THAT sign, only the Roman Catholic Church and some evangelical fundie sects are likely to be in trouble for their organized political campaigns against abortion.
Actually, it was when he started telling close confidants God told him he had a mission that I started thinking the men with the nets should do something. As we see, nothing was further from the truth, if America is a favored nation, as so many claim.
"I have advised (slaveholders) to bring their slaves into a free country and set them free--educate them--and give them equal rights." Joesph Smith 1842
This article is just to justify future attacks. Full stop.
John S.-What 'hate' are you talking about exactly?
Uh yeah. I think there are some people who don't believe it's all about the campaign. There's no doubt that the voter ID laws etc. are intended to disenfranchise people who might vote Democratic, but it happens that non-white people are likely to be most heavily affected. Certainly it's to the Democrats' advantage to have black ministers preach against the laws, but it's also about disenfranchisement of the members of the churches.
When I was in high school the Rabbi of the temple my family belonged to often preached about civil rights. I suppose some people might have decided that he was urging people to vote Democratic since the state we lived in wasn't in the south and the position of the president (Kennedy) and national party leadership was pro civil rights. As it happens, civil rights was an issue that was very important to Jews. The town my family lived in had allowed Jews to live there for less than ten years. There were nearby towns that still didn't allow Jews.
My dad was in the Air Force and met my mother in Germany. When he brought her home to Alabama, nearly everyone in town (including her new in-laws) treated her like hell. She was shunned in diners, refused service, called a 'kraut', etc. Even my two big sisters were treated poorly. It always made me cry to hear about it. Although, I'd kill to hear her tell it again, I miss her!
Char, what the HELL have you been drinking? "separate but equal?" Are you serious? Jim Crow Law, "separate and nobody who counts (white) gives a damn about equal" was legally enforceable in EVERY state of the original confederacy, plus a few border states from about 1885 until the Civil Rights Act of 1964. When I say "legally enforceable," I mean against ALL races. A white person could be (but seldom was) arrested for violating them.
And equal was in no way part of the equation even in the only place federal law (well SCOTUS Decision) said it HAD to be... education.
If it walks like a duck and sounds like a duck...its a duck.
And I never supported Ron Paul.
Funny how you view this as a racial issue right away,.....very telling. A duck.
In the town my folks lived in when I was in junior high and high school Catholics got in after WWII and Jews around 1955. In 1959 a developer announced that they were going to build a small housing tract and, gasp, sell some of the houses to black people. Many of the local residents were outraged about this "forced integration." They organized a movement to condemn the land for a park. It was successful. The ironic thing was that in the general election the year before the town had rejected a similar park bond issue for about the same amount of money by the same two to one margin the second bond issue won by.
This was a town about twenty five miles north of Chicago that was in transition from small town to suburb. Oh yeah, the proposed house were slated to sell for about 25% more than houses near by. The black people who might have bought them would have been better off than the white people who didn't want to live near them.
My folks and some of their friends took an active part in opposing the bond issue. The people across the street from us had a cross burned on their front lawn. My home room teacher was part of the group opposing the bond issue. People spent a lot of time over the next few years trying to get him fired.
Hey if the bigots and racists think they are so superior based on their color then they shouldnt be intimidated by evening the playing field....my guess is the only thing they have is the color of their skin...racists are ignorant.