Hillary's Pastor : It's a 'Grave Injustice' to make a judgement on Wright from a few soundbites

[peoli]

Doh. Looks like Hillarys pastor will endorse Obama soon!

""He would not have been my pastor," Clinton told a gathering of the campaign press corps, repeating a line she used earlier in the day on a Pittsburgh radio program. "You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend."

Last week, Dean Snyder, the senior minister at the Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington D.C. -- which the Clintons famously attended while in the White House -- released a little noticed statement offering a sympathetic defense of the totality of Wright's work.

"The Reverend Jeremiah Wright is an outstanding church leader whom I have heard speak a number of times," Snyder wrote. "He has served for decades as a profound voice for justice and inclusion in our society. To evaluate his dynamic ministry on the basis of two or three sound bites does a grave injustice to Dr. Wright, the members of his congregation, and the African-American church which has been the spiritual refuge of a people that has suffered from discrimination, disadvantage, and violence. Dr. Wright, a member of an integrated denomination, has been an agent of racial reconciliation while proclaiming perceptions and truths uncomfortable for some white people to hear. Those of us who are white Americans would do well to listen carefully to Dr. Wright rather than to use a few of his quotes to polarize."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/25/pastor-of-clintons-forme_n_93418.html

Will Hillary change churches? What does her congrssional Bible study group say about Rev. Wright?

[stray cat]

1. Sane voices of reason do exist in America!

[boobooday]

2. Good God Almighty

Can you imagine what kind of discussion we could have if the media actually talked about Rev. Wright's actual philosophy, and the issues he speaks to so passionately?

It's good when anyone draws attention to the bigger picture. I hope these voices are heard.

[peoli]

4. here here

[tularetom]

3. Except for the Reverend Billy Bob segment of American christianity

it sounds like Reverend Wright is well respected by mainstream church leaders and others, like President Bill Clinton who wasn't above inviting him to the Wh to help bail his pasty white ass out of a jam after gettin caught lying about a BJ.

[Voice for Peace]

5. Wow. Hillary seems really to have shot herself in the foot with this.

[theredpen]

6. I guys this guy wouldn't have been her pastor either, had she known he was JUDAS!

[Drachasor]

7. He's not her pastor

Hillary doesn't go to that church anymore. She only went while Bill was President. This guy got the post in 2002. That said, I approve his message.

[ClayZ]

8. K and R

[IDemo]

9. How soon until he's called a 'Judas' ?