Posted by
Paleo Pat on Sunday, March 16, 2008 7:03:21 PM
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!
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