CNN: Obama: Constitution stained by ‘sin of slavery’
Can’t wait to hear Rush...I might even leave work early today.
The initial headlines
CBS: Obama Urges Move Beyond “Racial Stalemate”
ABC: Obama: Pastor Has Distorted View, But He Is Family to Me
NBC: Obama: Racial anger is ‘real’
FOX: Obama Condemns Pastor, But Won’t ‘Disown Him’
CNN: Obama: Constitution stained by ‘sin of slavery’
NYT: “I have never been so naïve as to believe that we can get beyond our racial divisions in a single election.”
Sin of slavery? Slavery isn’t a sin, in and of itself.
Abusing slaves, and not offering slaves their freedom in the Year of Jubilee, could be sins. I’m talking about what the Bible says about slavery, and the Bible ought to be our source of what is and what isn’t a sin.
Obama is just one more politician who either doesn’t know the Bible, or misuses the Bible for political gain. Or both.
Yeah, that phrase stuck out to me, too. It's true in a sense, of course, but it's not something that should be said by someone battling the impression that he is unpatriotic.