Why did it take Barack and Michelle Obama 20 years to decide the Trinity church in Chicago was too controversial and didn't represent their views? Just today, Obama finally resigned his membership, after a visiting Catholic priest did a tasteless, racist slur against Hillary Clinton from the pulpit at Trinity.
Previously, the "retired" pastor of Trinity, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, repeatedly embarrassed Obama, both with video tapes of sermons showing venom for America, white people and the free enterprise system. Just as the controversy was about to die down, Wright re-emerged, speaking at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. and elsehwere, strengthening his stand behind his controversial views.
Wright performed the wedding ceremony and baptised Obama's two daughters, in addition to serving as their pastor for 20 years. His replacement, upon his retirement, Rev. Otis Moss, is a well-known figure on the political left, as well as a black power activist of long standing. Wright, at least, had served in the Marine Corps and was well-educated, credentials Moss can't claim.
There have been serious questions from the beginning about the nature and depth of Obama's Christian profession of faith, since his father was a Muslim and he attended Muslim schools as a young boy in Indonesia. The open, very non-traditional version of Christian doctrine practiced at Trinity has only added to questions about the sincerity of Obama's faith.
Resigning after 20 years, and doing it belatedly, nearly a year after the controversy first erupted, will hardly put the questions to rest.
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I couldn't have said it better. I dread the thought of this man in the White House. I am praying that people will start seeing through his seemingly well-place smokescreen. God bless you as you speak the truth boldly.
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