Bush And IRS Attack On All Saints Church, Pasadena

[Radicalman]

The assault of the Bush Regime against All Saints needs some context: President Bush has proven himself a friend of some religious organizations, doling out billions of US taxpayer dollars to them each year in apparent violation of the U.S. Constitution.

Bush, who rewards his religious pals but tries to punish his church critics, has sent IRS state agents and/or informers into the pews to spy on preachers who are speaking out on matters of conscience. This is simply a political inquisition. It is a witch hunt designed to intimidate clergy who oppose Bush's invasion and occupation of Iraq done in the name of his God.

To those who think they are not affected by this statist adventure, think again. The All Saints episode reveals that Big Brother could also be watching you at your place of worship. Suppose this: There is an IRS agent, or informer monitoring your service. He might be supposedly praying with you but inwardly could be mocking you because she despises your brand of Christianity Judaism or Islam. If one is not outraged by this assault on conscience, privacy, and human dignity, stop reading now!


An examination of the record indicates that IRS bureaucrats, obviously following the Bush agenda, do not apply IRS regs to the most egregious activities of pro-Bush religious supporters. For example, in the 2004 election, they did not audit the Catholic Church, after several bishops equated voting for John Kerry with a mortal sin, amounting to a religious directive to vote for Bush.

As is usual with partisan assaults on liberty, bureaucratic regulations are used as a cover for the promotion of state tyranny. The state agents in this case argue, that under IRS Code 501(c) they can investigate a church based on a field officers’ subjective opinion that a preacher’s sermon implicitly opposes or endorse candidates, in spite of the explicit statement of the preacher that he is not!

The arrogance of this interpretation of 501(c) by IRS bureaucrats -following a political agenda - and their ability to wield such arbitrary, unchecked power is a threat to all of us because, indeed, liberty is indivisible. In fighting against state tyranny, the clergy and vestry of All Saints stand ten feet tall.

[ShortnFiery]

1. If the IRS wants to launch a valid investigation of full mixing of

Church and State they should investigate The Catholic Bishop of Arlington. The Sunday before the 2004 Election, they sent a two-page letter by The Bishop that was given to *all attendees* of their individual Parish's Sunday Masses within Virginia.

The Bishop made the letter so convoluted that it was clearly in favor of Dear Leader. He not only hyped-up the anti-abortion rhetoric but implied that it trumped the "illegal war" criteria to vote for Kerry.

This letter that floated all over The Parishes that this Arlington Bishop was responsible for ... *all* of The Arlington Bishop's surrounding Parishes was the most vile and blatant election tampering by a Catholic Bishop that I have ever seen. My only regret is that I did not keep the letter to post here. However, they were so numerous and pervasively discussed (from The Sunday before Election Day until the Election) by many within the Catholic Hierarchy, it shouldn't be difficult to produce it.

What "Judgmental Politics in the form of a letter to all Parishioners" that Bishop of Arlington spewed forth, the very Sunday before the 2004 Presidential Election (Yes, he named names - "Senator Kerry & President Bush"), makes the happenings at The Pasadena Church look as "pure as the driven snow" in comparison.

I'm so ashamed that we have a SocioPath in OUR White House. The Elections for President in 2008 can NOT come too soon for me. :cry: :(

[patrice]

2. Yes. And for those who think the sword will cut both ways,

they're WRONG.

With the evidence we see of government jobs and courts being loaded with the ideologically correct, the IRS et al will just find, quite naturally AND rationally really, that only certain kinds of religious activities are prosecutable and, without certain kinds of very specialized information, who will we be to say any different?

Language is so essentially deconstructable that there will be little anyone can do as the government acquires more and more of this kind of power.

[Independent_Liberal]

3. Misusing the IRS. Bush is doing what Nixon did!

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