Rev. Wright wasn't controversial enough, so Barack Obama's Trinity Church invited a guest preacher, a Catholic priest, who also gave a politically charged -- and politically incorrect -- speech. Of course the cameras were rolling. Not what Obama needs.
So he apparently decided that the Church was dragging him down with too much baggage, and he officially resigned from that congregation.
It's a shame that he had to make such a decision. One's spirituality is supposed to be a personal thing. And the preachers aren't running for president -- Obama is. Can Obama's critics say that they agree 100% with everything their own preachers say? It's guilt by association, and it should be irrelevant.
And Thomas Jefferson's wall of Church-State separation continues to crumble in a rather ironic way.
Has anyone bothered to parse every word uttered by every preacher at John McCain's church, if he has one? Probably not. And they shouldn't.
Just as they shouldn't worry about how Obama spends his private Sunday mornings.
Just as they took a relatively hands-off approach regarding George W. Bush's membership in Skull & Bones.
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