Posted on 09/19/2010 12:01:53 PM PDT by traumer
President Barack Obama, who invoked his own Christian faith recently in seeking to quell anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States, attended church in Washington on Sunday for the first time in about five months.
Obama and his family strolled a block from the White House to St. John's Episcopal Church, a place of worship for many of his predecessors, for an hour-long service.
It was one of just a handful of times Obama has gone to church in Washington since taking office in January 2009, and follows opinion polls showing that as many as one in five Americans falsely believe he is Muslim.
Obama's visit came after he appealed for religious tolerance after a Florida pastor's threat to burn copies of the Koran sparked an outcry in the Muslim world and controversy swirled around plans to build a Muslim cultural center and mosque near the site of the September 11 attacks in New York.
"As someone who relies heavily on my Christian faith in my job, I understand the passions that religious faith can make," Obama told a September 10 news conference.
The Obama family never joined a church in Washington. Obama has said it would be too disruptive to the congregation. The White House says he regularly attends services at a chapel at Camp David when spends weekends at the presidential retreat in Maryland.
Obama was a longtime member of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago before quitting in 2008 during the presidential campaign amid controversy over provocative sermons by its former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
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Has anyone else watched “Airplane” and “Airplane II, The Sequel” on AMC this morning? I don’t know how those guys did it without breaking up. Our experience in the U.s. today is rather like “Airplane”, and no one is laughing here either.
The only times he shows what appears to be genuine fondness towards any person, it is towards his younger daughter.
Exactly what I was thinking.
How much did the big spenders drop in the plate?
The older daughter is kinda cute, but what in the world is she wearing? It sure doesn’t match or go together.
Phony, fake, show, symbolism over substance ! Bull$h!t !!!!!
No doubt his deep and abiding religious fervor responsible....NOTHING AT ALL to do with politics.
Wouldn’t surprise me a bit.
How sad is this...the president going to church is news.
Come on people. We all know he was just popping in to use the bathroom.
The key word in this headline is “RARE”
That says it all.
Great minds!
Not only that, but all the furniture was removed and replaced with prayer rugs.
He was caught cutting “...by their Creator....” out of the Declaration of Independece quote at the Hispanic Congressional dinner.
You can’t fool people, Zombie. It’s over and done.
You are definitely the Zombie Administration.
No more security concerns? Distrupting the church sevice? Etc etc.
Who cares whether he attends church or not.
President Reagan never attended church.
How disruptive is "too disruptive?"
Odumbo should go to the mosque we he would feel more comfortable
Or fit.
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