Dear KFC,  This article has as much traction as those regarding conservatice Christian pastors politiking for right wing candidates from their pulpits: both are wrong. But it appears no one really cares.  But I sense that Muslim Americans for Obama is more your point than anything else, as if its supposed to mean something about Sen. Obama. 

Muslim Americans are just as much Americans as Christian Americans, Jewish American, or Native American Church Aamericans.  This sort of religious targeting and prejudice does not serve you well.

The far right, like that strident Ann Coulter or flag drapped nonsense spouter Sean Hannity who never seem to miss an opportunity to remind everyone that Sen. Obama's middle name is Hussein (as if that is supposed to mean something different from my middle name being Sodaiho) are just pointing out to fair minded Americans how out of balance and full of fear and prejudice thay are. 

I would rather see you thoughtfully take on the issue of separation of politics from the pulpit than suggest if one side does it it is bad, but if anothyer does it, its cool.

Be well.

and if this article were about Jewish Americans or Native Americans I would have put the appropriate title up.  But it's not.  It's a group of Muslim Americans banding together to push a political candidate into office via their Mosques which I thought was very inappropriate.  I would have felt the same if it were Baptist Churches doing this.

In the churches I've attended over the years politics is left at the door.  I like it that way.  The closest I've ever seen politics from the pulpit is when there was a prayer for our troops or leadership on occasion.  In only one church I've ever attended they had voter guides on the back table but no mention from the pulpit about these guides.  These  guides did not tell one how to vote only showing the history of their Senators and Congressmen's record of voting in the previous year. 

Quite often I talk about "Christians" banding together (as in boycotts) or Jews or maybe even blacks.  It's only for clarification purposes I do so.  There's no deep seeded hatred for Muslims nor is there for blacks or Jews when I do so.  I have had Muslims in my home  as well as Atheists, blacks and many other backgrounds and for long periods of time even.  I even took one Muslim to church with me (he hated it) once when he was staying the weekend at our home. 

and that's not a bad idea either.  It would be a good topic for sure. 

Sodaiho, judging from her response, her initial point was not so much that it was MUSLIMS, but that an organized church was doing something to violate their tax exempt status.  And on top of that, they aren't being called out on it. 

If a baptist church were to do this same thing, then they SHOULD lose tax exempt status.  In fact, they would very quickly be threatened with this because so many people watch them for it.  Since it's a series of muslim mosques doing the EXACT SAME thing that would get a baptist church's status yanked, shouldn't they be held to the same standard?  They're not, however.   I don't think it's "cool" that they get away with it.  I think it's shameful. 

Of course not - they are for liberals which exempts them.