Posted on 03/28/2008 8:21:12 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
ITHACA--The Chaplain at Cornell University has announced his support for the racist and anti-American sermons of controversial pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Speaking on Thursday (March 27) Rev. Kenneth Clarke defended those sermons by Wright, called them “a different style of patriotism.” According to the Ithaca Journal:
Clarke challenged the audience to go beyond the sound bites and listen to Wright's entire sermon from Sept. 16, 2001 where he criticizes America. Clarke compared Wright's criticism of America to commentary found in speeches by Fredrick Douglas and Martin Luther King Jr.The critiques are not unpatriotic, Clarke said.
The statements “reflect a different style of patriotism to which the larger society is often not accustomed,” he said. “It is a willingness to criticize the nation and its practices to help the nation, as Dr. King once said, ‘to be true to what it has put on paper' in relation to the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution.”
Wright, the former pastor of Barack Hussein Obama’s Chicago church, has come under fire for remarks that include saying “God Damn America” and “the US of KKK A” in remarks from the pulpit, most famously in a sermon made a few days after September 11, 2001. He has also been criticized for statements that many consider racist or anti-Semitic.
Clarke is the Director of Cornell United Religious Work. According to its website, that department “offers programs of worship, study, and social life, as well as opportunities for students to engage in interfaith dialogue.” It is responsible for organizing the university’s religious services for the various faiths that are recognized in America. His remarks came during a panel discussion sponsored by the University entitled "America's Original Sin: Obama, Race, Religion and Politics".
In contrast to Clarke, Obama, the Democrat party frontrunner, has tried to distance himself from Wright in recent weeks, following speculation that Obama’s association with Wright could hurt him in the general election.
I understand that he also gave a sermon about Andrea Yates, praising her actions as “a different kind of child care.”
Didn’t Ann Coulter graduate from Cornell? That must have been a riot.
The trick Democrats always use, redefine terms to mean exactly the opposite of their true meaning. Hating America is the new Patriotism.
At Cornell, separation of church and state isn’t an issue, because the chaplain doesn’t hold with all that god nonsense.
Heh. Yeah, and a sermon about Bill and Monica, calling it "a different kind of monogamy."
Wow - the warped lens of political correctness really does allow for the concept that all whites are born inherently racist.
Especially the GD America part!
The NEW progressive gig; Can be called “The little red hen syndrome”. They eat and covet the resources and protection of our Country as they trash and attempt to divide the real CITIZENS.
CU is my alma mater (in Latin, "fostering mother"). All I know is if I spoke the way the Reverend did, my real mother would have washed my mouth out with soap. Dad, a Marine, would have concentrated on the other end, I am sure. May they both rest in peace.
The man is certifiable. Patriotism? Saying it doesn’t make it so. “Words do count.”
"A Different Kind Of Pyrotechnician"
I thought the story line was that these were minor parts of his sermon’s and ministries..now they say they are central.
Yes, and Robert Reich and Keith Obermann. Kurt Vonnegut too.
Reverend Wright is laughing all the way to his 1.6 million-dollar manse.
No, more correctly, that would be deemed
“A Different Kind of Civil Rights Rally”
And Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
(And ME)
“a different style of patriotism.”????? We don’t need nor do we want a “a different style of patriotism.” These people just want to keep people divided to help them reach into their pockets.
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