AME church rips vote on Eric Holder, also to brief black pastors on campaign 2012!
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2012/07/05 14:09:16
The African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the most prominent black denominations in the country, is blasting the House vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress last week, comparing the move to the “evil strategies employed following the Reconstruction era.”
The House voted 255-67 in finding Holder in contempt of Congress last week for his failure to hand over some documents in the botched Fast and Furious gun-walking investigation. While the vote was led by Republican lawmakers, 17 Democrats crossed the political aisle to hold Holder in contempt.
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Holder to brief black pastors on campaign 2012, by Joel Gehrke May 29,2012, Washington Examminer
Attorney General Eric Holder, the IRS, and the liberal lawyers at the ACLU will brief several hundred pastors in the African American community on how to participate in the presidential election -- which the Congressional Black Caucus chair expects will help President Obama's campaign.
"We will have representatives from nine denominations who actually pastor somewhere in the neighborhood of about 10 million people, and we're going to first of all equip them with the information they need to know about what they can say and what they cannot say in the church that would violate their 501c3 status with the IRS," Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., told MSNBC today.
"In fact, we're going to have the IRS administrator there, we're going to have the Attorney General Eric Holder there, we're going to have the lawyers' organization from around the country, the ACLU -- all giving ministers guidance about what they can and cannot do," he noted.
Cleaver said they would not tell pastors which candidate to support. They will let them know who to regard as the bad guys, though (hint: not Democrats). "We're going to talk about some of the draconian laws that have cropped up around the country as a result of the 17 percent increase in African American votes," Cleaver said, describing voter ID laws as a form of Jim Crow-style "poll tax" on seniors and black voters.
The CBC chairman is confident that "President Obama is going to get 95 percent of the [African American] vote," and wants to keep that turnout high. "We want to let them know that there is a theological responsibility to participate in the political process, at least in the Judeo-Christian tradition," he said.
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Since when is the IRS a political tool to be used by a presidential re-election campaign?
A good number of churches that promote hate, racism and intolerance have been publicly condemned for hatred and evil that they have wrought, and again, rightly so.
However, the atrocities committed by the a fore mentioned groups do not excuse or lessen the gravity of the wrongs committed by Eric Holder. Nor do they lessen the sting of hatred and racism that religious leaders like Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Al Sharpton and Reverend Jesse Jackson have wrought over the years.
Eric Holder, among many others, must be held accountable for his involvement in a program whose end result includes Americans being shot and murdered by the very weapons that the Fast and Furious program provided the murderers with.
The matter has nothing to to with race, and everything to do with the evil that some men have knowingly wrought.
Listing scandals from the past does not excuse, or lessen, the brutal loss of life that Fast and Furious has wrought.
The cold, hard truth -
....... or do you support Juan Williams thoughts on the matter?