{"id":6287,"date":"2008-05-23T01:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ucc_cleared_in_irs_probe_of_obama_speech\/"},"modified":"2008-05-23T01:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T01:24:00","slug":"ucc_cleared_in_irs_probe_of_obama_speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6287","title":{"rendered":"UCC Cleared in IRS Probe of Obama Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have determined that the activity about which we had concern did not constitute an intervention or participation in a political campaign,&#8221; the IRS said in a letter to the Cleveland-based church.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. tax law prohibits churches from engaging in partisan politicking under punishment of losing their tax exemptions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/article_detail.cfm?AID=10514\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &#8220;We have determined that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6287\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42,114,154,108,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-us-presidential-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}