Well, as a member of the ELCA for a number of years, I did hear anti-American talk from the pulpit after 9/11. But then I left that church for that very reason (along with another).
Obama hasn’t. And that’s the nut of it.
You showed the courage Obama lacks.
When I worked for the Defense Dept in then West Germany during the 70’s, we wondered how it could be that the German people couldn’t have known about the concentration camps, couldn’t have stood up against the evil racist stuff going on back in Hitler’s time.
It is this kind of trickle of acceptance - and lack of courage - that is the greatest danger to a society
composed of people with so many different backgrounds.
We need all of these different backgrounds to make our country great. We don’t need white, black or any other kind of racists. We do need people who will stand against them.