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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!A recent story in The New York Times detailed how the Internal Revenue Service has taken an interest in all those fiery, political sermons that have been appearing on YouTube over the past few years. Of special interest to those who collect our nation's taxes is whether or not churches, who enjoy tax exempt status in the United States, are breaking the law by encouraging their congregants to vote one way or another:This year, several cases of possible electioneering by clerics have come to the federal government's attention because of Webcasting. During the Florida Republican primary campaign, ...
Here's Barack Obama explaining his decision to leave Trinity:And the letter that the Obamas sent to Trinity on Friday, alerting the pastor of their decision, can be read here. ...
Erick Erickson at Redstate.com blogs that CNN is reporting Senator Obama will be giving up his membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ. Trinity, of course, is the church formerly helmed by Jeremiah Wright, the controversial pastor of YouTube.com fame who preached that the U.S. Government was distributing AIDS as part of a secret American genocide. No doubt the most recent flare-up featuring a fired-up Father Pfleger was the final straw. Even Obama, who is handled rather delicately in the press, would have trouble explaining continued membership in the church when they're ...
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