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You are really grasping at straws. Jeremiah Wright is not MLK.  Obama's Sainthood is over. He has been exposed for what he really is, just another liberal politician that will say and do ANYTHING to get power. He might even still be elected, but the bloom is off the rose, the chickens have come home to ROOOOST!!!!!!! |
The point is that Reverends make controversial remarks all the time, and those remarks shouldn't condemn the preacher, or the candidate that sits in his pews. The vast majority of Reverend Wright's sermons did not deal with the .01% that is being broadcast on television. If Wright had said...
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God didn't call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war. . . . And we are criminals in that war. We've committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world, and I'm going to continue to say it. And we won't stop it because of our pride and our arrogance as a nation. But God has a way of even putting nations in their place. And if you don't stop your reckless course, I'll rise up and break the backbone of your power.
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...people, today, would be ripping him apart. MLK Jr. was a great man who also made some controversial remarks from time to time. Fortunately, he is judged by the great remarks he made, not the controversial ones. Reverend Wright has even come out in support of homosexuals...
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As a leader, Wright defied convention at every turn. In an interview with the Chicago Tribune last year, he recalled a time during the 1970s when the UCC decided to ordain gay and lesbian clergy. At its annual meeting, sensitive to the historic discomfort some blacks have with homosexuality, gay leaders reached out to black pastors.
At that session, Wright heard the testimony of a gay Christian and, he said, he had a conversion experience on gay rights. He started one of the first AIDS ministries on the South Side and a singles group for Trinity gays and lesbians—a subject that still rankles some of the more conservative Trinity members, says Dwight Hopkins, a theology professor at the University of Chicago and a church member. Inside Obama's Trinity United Church
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...despite the damage it could have caused his reputation. Reverend Graham should not be condemned for a few anti-Semetic remarks he made. MLK Jr. should not be condemned for a few anti-American remarks he made. Reverend Jeremiah Wright should not be condemned for a few anti-American, anti-Hillary Clinton remarks he made.