Why Are Democrats Kissing The Ring Of Al Sharpton?

[Cow Poke]

Why Are Democrats Kissing The Ring Of Al Sharpton?

Many of the same Democrat hopefuls who boycotted AIPAC last month could be found pandering to the infamous race-baiter this week.

[Bill the Cat]

It's the "woke" thing to do. Sharpton still holds aa majority approval rating with black voters, so woke away!!

[Cow Poke]

It's the "woke" thing to do. Sharpton still holds aa majority approval rating with black voters, so woke away!!

Such a role model! Can you spell Tijuana Brolly*?

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*15 Years Later, Tawana Brawley Has Paid 1 Percent Of Penalty

[rogue06]

Such a role model! Can you spell Tijuana Brolly*?

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*15 Years Later, Tawana Brawley Has Paid 1 Percent Of Penalty

Never forget his inciting racial hatred which led to a massacre of seven people at Freddie's Fashion Mart.

I'm sure that Sharpton and the Anti-semitic congresswoman Ilhan Omar would get along well together given his expressed hostility toward Jews.

[Sparko]

He's not even a Reverend.

[Mountain Man]

I'm not sure it's his ring they're kissing...

[rogue06]

He's not even a Reverend.

According to Wikipedia:

Sharpton was licensed and ordained a Pentecostal minister by Bishop F. D. Washington at the age of nine or ten. After Bishop Washington's death in the late 1980s, Sharpton became a Baptist. He was re-baptized as a member of the Bethany Baptist Church in 1994 by the Reverend William Augustus Jones and became a Baptist minister.

I don't know if he has ever been associated with a particular church or just uses the title in order to get tax breaks.

[Sparko]

According to Wikipedia:

Sharpton was licensed and ordained a Pentecostal minister by Bishop F. D. Washington at the age of nine or ten. After Bishop Washington's death in the late 1980s, Sharpton became a Baptist. He was re-baptized as a member of the Bethany Baptist Church in 1994 by the Reverend William Augustus Jones and became a Baptist minister.

I don't know if he has ever been associated with a particular church or just uses the title in order to get tax breaks.

I can become a minister/reverend by filling out a form online, but that doesn't make me one.

[rogue06]

I can become a minister/reverend by filling out a form online, but that doesn't make me one.

True. Different denominations have different requirements and there is no set standard. As you said you can legally become a minister by simply being able to sign your name and establishing a "church" is also ridiculously easy as political commentator and satirist John Oliver demonstrated

[Bill the Cat]

True. Different denominations have different requirements and there is no set standard. As you said you can legally become a minister by simply being able to sign your name and establishing a "church" is also ridiculously easy as political commentator and satirist John Oliver demonstrated

In my county in VA, you have to have an established congregation to be licensed. I was licensed by the International Pentecostal Holiness Church for several years and officiated 2 marriages in that time.

[rogue06]

In my county in VA, you have to have an established congregation to be licensed. I was licensed by the International Pentecostal Holiness Church for several years and officiated 2 marriages in that time.

IIRC "Universal Life Church" won a case in federal court in which all that is necessary are three members -- a minister, a secretary and a treasurer -- to establish a church.

[Cow Poke]

I'm not sure it's his ring they're kissing...

Shame on you, MM!

[Cow Poke]

IIRC "Universal Life Church" won a case in federal court in which all that is necessary are three members -- a minister, a secretary and a treasurer -- to establish a church.

And that's just because you have to have officers to file a 501(c)(3) application.

[rogue06]

And that's just because you have to have officers to file a 501(c)(3) application.

ULC was pretty much established as a tax dodge and it was common for the same three people to set up three different churches where the officers would assume different roles in each church.

[rogue06]

Why Are Democrats Kissing The Ring Of Al Sharpton?

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