Oh, this is rich…….
Obama’s church accuses media of character assassination (via Politico.com)
The stupid statement quote of the day….:
Chicago, Ill. (March 15, 2008) — Nearly three weeks before the 40th commemorative anniversary of the murder of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.’s character is being assassinated in the public sphere because he has preached a social gospel on behalf of oppressed women, children and men in America and around the globe.
“Dr. Wright has preached 207,792 minutes on Sunday for the past 36 years at Trinity United Church of Christ. This does not include weekday worship services, revivals and preaching engagements across America and around the globe, to ecumenical and interfaith communities. It is an indictment on Dr. Wright’s ministerial legacy to present his global ministry within a 15- or 30-second sound bite,” said the Reverend Otis Moss III, pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ.
During the 36-year pastorate of Dr. Wright, Trinity United Church of Christ has grown from 87 to 8,000 members. It is the largest congregation in the United Church of Christ (UCC) denomination.
“It saddens me to see news stories reporting such a caricature of a congregation that has been such a blessing to the UCC’s Wider Church mission,” said the Rev. John H. Thomas, UCC general minister and president, in a released statement. “ … It’s time for us to say ‘No’ to these attacks and declare that we will not allow anyone to undermine or destroy the ministries of any of our congregations in order to serve their own narrow political or ideological ends.”
Trinity United Church of Christ’s ministry is inclusive and global. The following ministries have been developed under Dr. Wright’s ministerial tutelage for social justice: assisted living facilities for senior citizens, day care for children, pastoral care and counseling, health care, ministries for persons living with HIV/AIDS, hospice training, prison ministry, scholarships for thousands of students to attend historically black colleges, youth ministries, tutorial and computer programs, a church library, domestic violence programs and scholarships and fellowships for women and men attending seminary.
Moss added, “The African American Church was born out of the crucible of slavery and the legacy of prophetic African American preachers since slavery has been and continues to heal broken marginalized victims of social and economic injustices. This is an attack on the legacy of the African American Church which led and continues to lead the fight for human rights in America and around the world.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached the Christian tenet, “love thy neighbor as thyself.” Before Dr. King was murdered on April 4, 1968, he preached, “The 11 o’clock hour is the most segregated hour in America.” Forty years later, the African American Church community continues to face bomb threats, death threats, and their ministers’ characters are assassinated because they teach and preach prophetic social concerns for social justice. Sunday is still the most segregated hour in America.
Oh Please…….
Make stupid statements, allow them to be recorded, have your most famous member run for President, and then when the Media picks up some of the sermons, that sounds, quite frankly, Anti-American and when this shown to America. You pull the race card. How convenient.
….And we want to elect this man President????
Give me a break!
Update: Juan Williams over at Fox News, of all places, is saying the SAME thing as me: (H/T Hotair.com)
Link: sevenload.com
Others: Hot Air, The Sundries Shack, Donklephant and Stop The ACLU and
http://blog.beliefnet.com/jwalking/
Above is a link to David Kuo blog Beliefnet.
He offers some very good insight – and praise – for Sen. Obama’s ability to separate the “sin” from the “sinner”
Anyone who bothers to research Sen. Obama’s writings, read any of his books understands that when he went to Chicago as a community organizer at 27 years of age – not a as a child — he was advised to join the Church to understand the plight of the black man. That this would help him do a better job in the community.
Obama came to Chicago with a black face but as a white man.
The multiple culture and as Obama says “little bits of America” in him are what makes him truly unique. He stayed at the Church for the good works they did for the community. This is not in dispute.
That over the course of 20 years Rev Wright said some deplorable things is also not in dispute.
What is most upsetting about this whole episode is that if thinking people are willing to abandon a cause and a movement based on a few minutes of targeted, isolated video – how commited were they in the first place?
Obama is the same man he was before FOX and co started incessantly replaying the same clips over and over again.
Was what Wright said about 9/11 vile? Yes but I hate to tell you what my Rabbi said at the service after 9/11 and am glad for his sake no one videotaped it
Obama is to be commended not deridedn for being able to separate the messenger from the message —
Maybe if we had people in government who could do this we would not be having the fifth anniversary of a pointless war this week
If we allow ourselves to be manipulated by YOU TUBE then shame on us all
Allison,
I am going to allow your comments to stand. Because it does being a valid point to the discussion. and I thank you for the comments. I don’t, however agree with your point, at all. If anyone else has a counterpoint here, please feel free to share it. My point that I was trying to make is, if you don’t want your sermons to be brought into the fold, analyzed to the point of stupidity. Then don’t record them, better yet, stick to the gospel and quit injecting your personal opinions into the sermon.
I also found it to be most offensive this guy is trying to play the victim card. He’s not a victim, he’s a idiot that allowed his sermons to be recorded. and yes, I do care to know what this man truly believes, that being Obama. If he’s a Black Nationalist, I’d like to know about it. and that’s my right and everyone else’s in this country.
Do I think that Obama is lying about him knowing what Wright believes? I cannot make that judgment, as I do not Obama personally. I’m sure the facts will bare themselves out before November.
Again, I thank you for your comments.
See guys? I don’t censor everyone, I sometimes give opposing views a chance to speak their minds too. As long as it isn’t done in a trollish or abusive manner.