Posted on 06/01/2008 5:52:51 AM PDT by kellynla
Seeking to put a string of controversies involving his longtime Chicago church behind him, Sen. Barack Obama on Saturday said he and his family are withdrawing their membership from Trinity United Church of Christ.
Severing more than two decades of ties to his spiritual home on the city's South Side, Obama said he made the decision for his own political needs and in an effort to allow the church a return to some normalcy.
"This is not a decision I come to lightly, and frankly it's one that I make with some sadness," he said at a hastily arranged evening news conference in Aberdeen, S.D.
"Trinity was where I found Jesus Christ, where we were married, where our children were baptized," Obama said. "We have many friends among the 8,000 congregants."
Saying he had prayed about the decision, Obama said he and his wife, Michelle, had for "quite some time" discussed the possibility of leaving the church.
"It's clear that now that I am a candidate for president, every time something is said in the church by anyone associated with Trinity, including guest pastors, the remarks will be imputed to me, even if they totally conflict with my long-held views, statements and principles," he said.
The latest controversy involving the church erupted last week when an Internet video emerged from an appearance there by Chicago Rev. Michael Pfleger.
Pfleger, who has had numerous run-ins with Chicago Roman Catholic archdiocese leaders for his political activism, mocked Sen. Hillary Clinton from the pulpit. He also suggested that the former first lady is a white elitist who felt entitled to the Democratic nomination for president.
While calling Pfleger a friend and someone who "has done tremendous work in Chicago,"
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If Obama loses the election, will he go back to the church? And would they take him back?
Yes and Yes
I do not have article or link handy, but back in 2007 April or May, he was interviewed by I think New York magazine or Post.
In the article he is quoted as saying that he would disavow Rev Wright, and that wright should not take personally.
This is just an extension of his posturing for the masses.
Also it is to little too late, it might have been believable if he did it right after
the Rev episode but not now.
In addition he is both a Chgo democrat and democrat,lying comes naturally.
If he is talking he is lying.
This is no more than an attempt by his handlers to distance him from his “spiritual advisers” , an avowed BLT reverend and “catholic” priest that is does not preach any form of Gods words that I have ever heard.
The more I learn about nobama, the more I’m convinced he is the Manchurian Candidate.
Osama Hussein Obama, IMO, is the Muslim Manchurian Candidate endorsed by Al Qaeda, Hamas, Iran, and the rest of the wishful destroyers of America. He’s anti-white, anti-semitic, anti-military, and he will destroy our children and grandchildren’s futures on top of hating this country. He’s that dangerous and poses that much of a threat to each of us and our way of life. It’s as if we’re reliving 1933 Nazi Germany. Between now and November it is up to each of us to expose Obama and his wife for the destroyers and haters of America that they are.
And of course if he wins in November he can announce his conversion to islam in time for the inauguration.
He may quit his church; but the stink and shame will be all over him the rest of his life.
Obama is truly not the man to vote for in this election. I can’t even begin to imagine a President with his name. The name of our enemy.
I really can’t imagine our country even allowing this to happen.
It is time to call Orkin when you have a cockroach in the house.
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