Posted on 03/15/2008 12:29:04 PM PDT by pissant
When Sen. Barack Obama joined Trinity United Church of Christ 20 years ago, little did he know that the churchs charismatic pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., would become a flashpoint in a Democratic presidential primary.
Wright, an activist pastor who brought the South Side church from a 85-member congregation to an 8,000-member mega-church, has been under constant attack on Fox News Hannity & Colmes as a cult and separatist church.
In an interview, Obama told the Chicago Sun-Times that, despite the controversy swirling around Wright over racial comments he made from the pulpit about Sen. Hillary Clinton, he is not abandoning his church.
We are still members of the church, Obama said.
At the same time, Obama strongly condemned the racially explosive language attributed to Wright.
The particular statements that have been pulled out of Rev. Wrights sermons are ones that I profoundly disagree with, Obama said, adding that he has never been at Trinity when Wright made similar remarks.
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I have felt frustrated by how the church has been characterized and by the suggestion that this is somehow a separatist church and by other statements made on these talk shows, he said.
Anybody who has been to the church knows this is a terrific, welcoming church, Obama noted. Trinity is a wonderful faith community that has done very positive things in the community and also in my life.
(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
He could get out of it by saying that he has been a member of the religion of peace all along.
If you had said this about a certain Republican's church 2 months ago you'd have dozens of FReepers all over your post labeling you as a "bigot."
(I guess this just shows they are two-faced, inconsistent, and hypocritical)
I don’t, and won’t tolerate “political correctness.”
The term is Orwellian. “Political correctness” is nothing more than the McCarthyism of the left.
I guess I am, since you don’t capitalize your screen name, either. Apparently that makes you the retard. (But I already knew that)
Now that's good!
That was the most hateful, untrue bile I've heard in a long time. Where, oh where was the MSM?
He puffed but he didn't inhale?
So anytime Obama doesn't want to deal with troubling questions he doesn't want to answer he just raises the "race card" and mves on to his next "lovefest" rally. Just great! Wake up Americans!
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