This Just In . . .

Actually it posted a couple of days ago, but I somehow missed it.

IRS grants three-week extension for UCC's response


Hopefully, cooler heads will prevail over this issue, and nothing will come of it. Unfortunately, it so often seems that in conflicts such as this, the only people who profit are the lawyers. I did like John Thomas's comment at the end of the article, though.

Most of my colleagues seem to think that this will fade away, and that the IRS will find nothing worth removing the denomination's tax exempt status. My fear is, that in this conservative religious world, the powers that be (President Bush spoke to a group of fundementalist religious broadcasters and radio hosts in Nashville, TN the other day - more on that later), is that the UCC will take a pounding, and losing that status could be a fatal wound to what is a one of a very small number of progressive voices in the world of Christianity.

I guess time (and law suits) will tell.