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To: NYer

It’s ok if they’re in black churches.


3 posted on 09/26/2012 2:14:31 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

The IRS rule is an end run around the Constitution and should be abolished.

Churches have Constitutionally protected free speech, BUT if they choose to exercise that free speech in a manner the government disapproves of, the government penalizes them by raising their tax rate.


5 posted on 09/26/2012 2:19:57 PM PDT by Brookhaven (The Democratic Party has become the Beclowning Party)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

This has been going on in “Democrat” churches for ever. Black churches are the worse. They should have had their tax status stripped eons ago.


14 posted on 09/26/2012 3:50:22 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (christian.bahits.com)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
"It’s ok if they’re in black churches."

You beat me the the punchline.

Eric Witholder is our nation's the "top cop" [barf] and is committed to his New Black Panthers, Black Caucus communists, and his law firm Covington & Burling who handled Blago and pro bono - Gitmo detainees.

Private practice

In March 2004, Holder and Covington & Burling were hired by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to act as a special investigator to the Illinois Gaming Board. The investigation was subsequently canceled on May 18, 2004.

Representation of Guantanamo Bay inmates

According to The American Lawyer's annual pro bono survey, Covington lawyers spent 3,022 hours on Guantánamo litigation in 2007, "the firm's largest pro bono project that year".Lawyers from the firm who have become administration officials have been advised by ethics officials to recuse themselves in matters involving detainees represented by their former firms, but not from policy issues where they were not personally and substantially involved. Lanny Breuer is one of those who has had to recuse on from some [sic] matters since leaving the firm for a government position.Covington also co-authored one of three petitioners' briefs filed in Boumediene v. Bush, "and was responsible for several detainee victories" in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. "At least one high-ranking appointee played a key role in advancing detainees' rights," but they did not participate in litigation over the Guantanamo Bay prison itself.

P.S. sorry for the Wikipedia references, but the source is respected by progressives, so it's unassailable /sarc

15 posted on 09/26/2012 5:24:27 PM PDT by uncommonsense (Conservatives believe what they see; Liberals see what they believe.)
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