Columbus pastors file complaint against Fellowship Foundation | The Columbus Dispatch

The ony problem with what these "mainline" denomination preachers have done is that they want the IRS to revoke the tax exempt status for some of their competitive churches/religious groups. What should be done is that all religions should be treated like any other commercial business and they should NOT have tax exempt status. To grant them tax exempt status is to favor religion or "belief" systems over those who don't believe in religion and thus have the non-religious forced to support various religions. Let those who are "believers" pay their own way and not expect the state to finance them.

can't stand the competition

Republicans receiving funds from terrorists and covering it up with a religious spin. What's new about that? When will people wake up?

Bovie wrote:

The ony problem with what these "mainline" denomination preachers have done is that they want the IRS to revoke the tax exempt status for some of their competitive churches/religious groups. What should be done is that all religions should be treated like any other commercial business and they should NOT have tax exempt status. To grant them tax exempt status is to favor religion or "belief" systems over those who don't believe in religion and thus have the non-religious forced to support various religions. Let those who are "believers" pay their own way and not expect the state to finance them.

All good points, Bovie, but not pertinent to what I read as the substance of this reporting. As I read it, high-level government officials used a charity to launder money received from known Islamic terrorists. The money was then used to lobby congress to remove that terrorist group from the watch list. Is that how you want your government to function? Is that a "charitable activity" as you understand it?

Good job Pastor's we Ohioians are tired of corruption and this should show the nation that Ohioians are not taking crap from corrupt politicians. Awesome job Pastor's!!!!!!!!!!

All good points, Bovie, but not pertinent to what I read as the substance of this reporting. As I read it, high-level (and former high-level) government officials used a charity to launder money received from known Islamic terrorists. The money was then used to lobby Congress to remove that terrorist group from the watch list. Is that how you want your government to function? Is that a "charitable activity" as you understand it? This is not a story about challenging churches' right to tax exemption - a worthy topic. It's a story about political corruption and documented violations of international law.

A group of left-wing pastors going after a group on the right, because they don't agree with them. Neither group has any moral high ground here. Their focus should be on ministering to those in their community, not playing politics. It's sad that the church has become so partisan.

Hello Bovine? Where are thou Bovine? Helen has asked a pertinent question. Buh bye bovie!!!

Pertinent info from the article: "...the House standards committee looked into the Foundation's activities months ago and found no wrongdoing."

Trumped up tripe.

Dick wrote:

Looks like the superchurch is causing more trouble. Remember. They have a form of godlyness,.but, refuse the power thereof. These people support homo's muslims, and all other liberal causes.

Did you even bother reading the article? The Church is taking money from terrorists and funneling the money through Republican congressmen. Being from Alabama and with Aderholt on that list that is a scary thing considering he is already under investigation for other "trips" he has taken.

Sounds like the enemy with-in. Stop their tax-exempt status? Arrest 'em, everyone involved in any way. We are being defeated from with-in from our own greedy people. Wake Up Folks!!!

Oh man is the Obama Administration dredging the bottom. I guess when you know your about to get your a8s royally handed to you in 3 weeks, you'll say and do anything.

Mainline Lefties wrote:

Pertinent info from the article: "...the House standards committee looked into the Foundation's activities months ago and found no wrongdoing."
Trumped up tripe.

NOTE: Carter said, "The House Standards Committee looked into the Foundation's activities months ago and found no wrongdoing." There is no such thing as the "House Standards Committee." It was the Office of Congressional Ethics - which looked into the subsidized rent of Congressional residents at the C Street Mansion. The OCE did not, in fact, find "no evidence of wrongdoing." They determined that they didn't have the expertise to assess imputed income. The OCE was not asked to assess, or make any recommendations regarding, the "Foundation's activities." It's interesting that Carter makes a reference to the Foundation's ethical innocence when, in point of fact, its alleged guilt was not called into question until today. If Carter wants to undertake a defense of plausible deniability he would do well to avoid, in comments to the press, making the first published reference to the OCE and the Fellowship Foundation in the same sentence.

NOTE: Carter said, "The House Standards Committee looked into the Foundation's activities months ago and found no wrongdoing." There is no such thing as the "House Standards Committee." It was the Office of Congressional Ethics - which looked into the subsidized rent of Congressional residents at the C Street Mansion. The OCE did not, in fact, find "no evidence of wrongdoing." They determined that they didn't have the expertise to assess imputed income. The OCE was not asked to assess, or make any recommendations regarding, the "Foundation's activities." It's interesting that Carter makes a reference to the Foundation's ethical innocence when, in point of fact, its alleged guilt was not called into question until today. If Carter wants to undertake a defense of plausible deniability he would do well to avoid, in comments to the press, making the first published reference to the OCE and the Fellowship Foundation in the same sentence.

Raven wrote:

Republicans receiving funds from terrorists and covering it up with a religious spin. What's new about that? When will people wake up?

Wow guess you didnt read the whole article. There were Dems in on it also. Wow talk about a spin

Kill White Babies wrote:

Oh man is the Obama Administration dredging the bottom. I guess when you know your about to get your a8s royally handed to you in 3 weeks, you'll say and do anything.

The IARA (International Islamic Relief Agency) was placed on the "Specially Designated Nationals" list (terrorist watch list) by the Senate Finance Committee under the leadership of Republican Charles Grassley, in 2004, a classification that was simultaneously assigned, in that same year, by the Department of the Treasury under the administration of George W. Bush. The IARA is headed by Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese dictator responsible for the genocide in Darfur. Is that whom you want financing Congressional travel and subsidizing Congressional housing in the United States of America? What, pray tell, does any of this have to do with Barak Obama?

Kill White Babies wrote:

Oh man is the Obama Administration dredging the bottom. I guess when you know your about to get your a8s royally handed to you in 3 weeks, you'll say and do anything.

Let's try just a little different look at this situation. It sounds like there's something far more at stake in the next elections than the loss of Dumbarsecrat majority. Besides it always amazes me anyone could be a Christian and Dumbarsecrat considering the party was founded for the most part on the main platform of slavery. Things are going to get really good after the next elections.

nOpe wrote:

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Wow guess you didnt read the whole article. There were Dems in on it also. Wow talk about a spin

You're right, Raven. And you make an excellent point. There are both Democrats and Republicans residing at C Street. Both Democratic and Republican Members traveled overseas on the dime of the Fellowship Foundation. This is bi-partisan corruption. What accounts - in the foregoing comments - for the consistent assumption that these are Democratic allegations against Republicans?- or left-of-center allegations against right-of-center Members of the House and Senate? Is there evidence for those assumptions? Why were they so consistently made by such a large percentage of persons offering comment?

Kill White Babies wrote:

Oh man is the Obama Administration dredging the bottom. I guess when you know your about to get your a8s royally handed to you in 3 weeks, you'll say and do anything.

They are truly down to nothing.

Here we are hearing from these b00bs from Columbus who call themselves pastors - nothing more than liberal shills that crawl out from under their rocks around election time and make some radical far flung kook claims, interesting enough, against republicans somewhere or another. How disgusting that these people abuse the Christian religion in the name of their political hack activities. Their houses of ill-repute are what should be shut down - it is loons like this who give religious people a bad reputation. What a bunch of whack-jobs!