The Internal Revenue Service has cleared the United Church of Christ on charges that it violated tax laws by allowing presidential candidate Barack Obama to speak at a church synod last summer, the UCC announced Wednesday.
“We have determined that the activity about which we had concern did not constitute an intervention or participation in a political campaign,” the IRS said in a letter to the Cleveland-based church.
U.S. tax law prohibits churches from engaging in partisan politicking under punishment of losing their tax exemptions.
Of course, all those crude Hillary-bashing ‘sermons’ by ‘Rev’ Wright ain’t political either …
Good news for the UCC … they sure got off the hook quicker than we did in Pasadena!
Good news indeed! This opens the door for conservative churches to included more sermons on political issues, such as abortion and the sinfulness of homose&#xua;lity, without fear of governmental censorship at the point of the IRS tax-gun.