UPDATE
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/01/obama-appears-at-district-chur.html
Obama to appear at District church where King spoke
By Hamil R. Harris
In his second appearance at a local church since taking office, President Obama on Sunday will attend a historic African American congregation in Northwest Washington. He was expected to speak from a pulpit where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once stood.
The first family is expected to attend the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, a 144-year-old congregation in the Logan Circle area where on February 7, 1968, King delivered a sermon that was part of a series entitled “In search of a sense of direction.”
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“Dr. King stood for the cause of Christ and righteousness and justice in spite of a political backlash,” Wheeler said in an interview, recalling that King came to a church only months before his death and during a time when he was unpopular in many political circles because of his stand on the Vietnam War.
“He pushed for what was right for our nation and that ought to be a guide for us now right now in the shadow of eh health care debate, the disaster in Haiti and what else is going on in the world,” Wheeler said.
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LOL. How appropriate.