Presidential hopeful Barack Obama belongs to the United Church of Christ, which was the first to ordain an openly gay minister and to call for equal marriage rights for all people, regardless of gender.The UCC prides itself as being “out front” on social justice issues, battling civil rights, women’s rights and gay rights ahead of the mainstream. One Sunday hymnal equally celebrates male and female images of God.
And earlier this month, the UCC took a stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith rebuked as “unfair and one-sided.”
Obama’s faith, church and pastor have all come under scrutiny since he announced his bid for president.
“Whether the issue is war, health care, poverty, abuse against women and children, the church is right there and sometimes that makes us a target,” said the Rev. Edward Smith Davis, 53, of UCC’s God Can Ministries in south suburban Ford Heights.
UCC officials said Obama’s invitation isn’t a political endorsement. They’re expecting the highest turnout ever for a convention– an estimated 11,000 people — but they say that’s because the denomination is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
“We are definitely proud the senator is a member,” said the Rev. Jane Fisler Hoffman, head of the UCC’s Illinois Conference. “It will be important for church folks to hear a politician speak about his faith and how that informs his work in politics.”
Church is racist
The UCC was formed in 1957 by a merger of churches from Congregational, Christian, Evangelical and Reformed traditions. The denomination traces its roots to Christians who ordained the first African-American minister (1785) and the first woman minister (1853).
It’s also home to the Cathedral of Hope in Dallas, the world’s largest gay and lesbian church.
Obama and his wife, Michelle, are members of Trinity United Church of Christ, a South Side church led by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., who teaches members about their African heritage and preaches a theology of black liberation.
Conservative pundits say the church espouses white racism. Obama and Wright state that the goal of the Church is to attain black empowerment and to be unashamedly black.
IRS Investigates Obama’s Denomination
The IRS is investigating the United Church of Christ over a speech Barack Obama gave to its national meeting last year after he became a candidate for president.Obama is a member of the church.
A spokesman for the denomination says it received notice of the inquiry on Monday.
The IRS says there is reason to believe the speech violated restrictions on political activity for nonprofit groups.
Church officials made it clear before Obama’s address that he was speaking as a church member, not a political candidate.
United Church of Christ teaches that Jesus was of the Black Race and advocate a Black Theology of Liberation.

Whites do not recognize what is happening, and they are thus unable to deal with it. For most whites in power, the black community is a nuisance something to be considered only when the natives get restless. But what white America fails to realize is the explosive nature of the kingdom. Although its beginning is small, it will have far-reaching effects not only on the black community but on the white community as well. Now is the time to make decisions about loyalties, because soon it will be too late. Shall we or shall we not join the black revolutionary kingdom?
Pope Benedict XVI states the dangers of Liberation Theology: click here
An excellent overview of the grave dangers of Liberation Theology was written in 1984 by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI).
Here are some of the important points Ratzinger makes about Liberation Theology:
1. Liberation Theology has it center of power in Latin America and in African Theology, but is found in many Christian denominations throughout the Third World.
2. Liberation Theology is a new interpretation of Christian reality.
3. Liberation Theology is radically Marxist, the world must be interpreted in terms of the class struggle and that the only choice is between capitalism and Marxism.
4. Liberation Theology thrives on perpetuating class struggle. The only people of the Church are those who participate in class struggle.
5. Liberation Theology is a theology of bloody political revolution. All of Christian reality is reduced to politico-social liberation praxis (action).
6. Liberation Theology rejects traditional scriptural interpretations. The experience of the “community” determines the understanding and the interpretation of Scripture. Ultimately, what is normative for interpretation is not historical research but the hermeneutic of history experienced in the community or the political group.
7. Liberation Theology makes the Bible subject to a Marxist view of history. The “historicality” of the Bible must justify its absolute dominance and thus legitimize the’ transition to materialist-marxist philosophy, in which history has taken over the role of God, historical criticism has loosed Scripture from the traditional interpretation, which now appears to be unscientific.
8. Liberation Theology is a threat to the faith of the Christian Church.
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It’s the holy spirit, not the holy spook.
If Jesus was black, he deserved to be whipped.
End of story.
The Pope is much more intelligent, scholarly, spiritually sincere, and better educated than reverend Wright, I assure you. Pope Benedict speaks five languages fluently, has been a professor of Theology, authored many textbooks, written world class encyclicals, and is an accomplished classical pianist.
What are Wright’s credentials? One of those conferred divinity degrees, if that? He doesn’t even compare.
I’ll take the Pope’s word.
If you want to see a genius mind at work, read Pope Benedict’s encyclicals on love, and the one on Christian hope. This guy makes Charles Dickens look retarded, and english isn’t even his native tongue!
What does Wright speak? Ebonics and “God damn America?”
The only church Wright ever truly mastered was Church’s fried chicken! Tell him I have some for him, and it’s white meat.
Don’t even get me started.
Obama’s far too intelligent to get himself mixed up with a racist loser like Wright.
Oh, and if Jesus was black, he’d be wearing his robe below his waist with his ass hanging out.
My God doesn’t have a color. I think Wright’s god is his own ego. I hope the IRS tears his ass apart. One of those 500 year prison sentences will do.
I don’t mind Obama, but his pastor can SMWD. W IS WHITE. SMD IS SELF-EXPLANATORY.
Enjoy your new black president!