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2013-09-08 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-09-08 01:38|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 My tax dollars at work helping tax exempt organizations getting more voters out to elect candidates to raise my taxes.

Posted by Airandee 2013-09-08 08:19|| 2013-09-08 08:19|| Front Page Top

#2 A massive naval engagement in the Med, will ~~resolve~~ deflect all of these pesky scandals.

Posted by Beksoeker 2013-09-08 08:30|| 2013-09-08 08:30|| Front Page Top

#3 ..either that or so compound the long lists of grievances that a heck of a lot of people will just sit on the sidelines when the real fight erupts once critical mass has been achieved.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-09-08 09:54|| 2013-09-08 09:54|| Front Page Top

#4 What in the world with this dumb SOB do now ?
God help us.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-09-08 11:40|| 2013-09-08 11:40|| Front Page Top

#5 I have long wondered why it is that Democrat politicians can openly campaign at black churches, yet the Catholic Church has to be very careful about what it says, less it lose its tax exempt status.

For example, I remember reading an article where Mario Cuomo (ex governor of New York, father of the current governor) enthusiastically endorsed Bill Clinton at a black church.

Yet, the Catholic Church cannot tell people to vote for or against particular candidates due to the candidate's stand on abortion.

Well, I guess now I know.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2013-09-08 12:00|| 2013-09-08 12:00|| Front Page Top

#6 I have long wondered why it is that Democrat politicians can openly campaign at black churches, yet the Catholic Church has to be very careful about what it says, less it lose its tax exempt status.

Because black churches are viewed as an aspect of 'black culture', an anthropological curiosity one might find in the pages of National Geographic. Rather patronizing on the part of the cultural and political elites, but quite effective.

Posted by Pappy 2013-09-08 13:28|| 2013-09-08 13:28|| Front Page Top

#7 So, Pappy, you're saying that black churches are NOT religious organizations, but are, in fact, political?

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2013-09-08 14:02|| 2013-09-08 14:02|| Front Page Top

#8 No, they're religious organizations and quite influential that way, though less than they used to be. Black churches historically have been a strong force for black society and civil rights.

Society and the cultural elites view black churches, to put it bluntly, as curious 'native cultural ceremonies'. That's why black churches get treated in movies and television as "singing and dancing while in robes" and more for their contributions to music than in helping society.

The political elite, however, saw the power black churches had and still have, the cultural acceptance they enjoy, and have exploited it. And both sides now support that exploitation.

Posted by Pappy 2013-09-08 15:48|| 2013-09-08 15:48|| Front Page Top

#9 "Ahhh don't feeel now ways tarred, ahhh come to faaaaarrrr"

Posted by Frank G 2013-09-08 16:28|| 2013-09-08 16:28|| Front Page Top

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