Op-Ed Columnist Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post today has the most read on-line article in the paper with his piece titled: The Speech: A Brilliant Fraud.
It’s filled with troubling questions about Barack Obama and his connection with Reverend Wright and he picks up immediately on the question I had when listening to the speech this week.
Obama said: “Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes.”
I wasn’t sure that I heard him right.
You mean, you heard him say some of those racially hateful things about whites and you heard him denegrate this country again and again and you did nothing?
What didn’t you leave the church? Why did you expose your family to these anti-white, anti-American messages? Why did you give thousands of dollars to this church just a few years ago? Why was this man in any way associated with your campaign?
If a man is measured by the company he keeps, Obama has not chosen his friends wisely.
Wait a minute. If one is religious, he doesn't throw the baby out with the bath. I remember I didn't like a lot of things about the Roman Catholic Church when I was growing up. I felt the international church was growing too liberal and too anti-American. I didn't leave. I prayed for change, and it happened with the accension of Pope John Paul II.
Similarly, when John Paul II decreed that it was inproper for the Religious (members of orders) to hold public office where they may have to espouse positions different from those taken by the R.C. Church, Father Drinan of MA. a Congressman, did not run for re-election. Many were stunned that he didn't leave the church. Religious stay religious, even when the spokesman speaks words with which they do not agree. I am not going to vote for Obama, but it isn't going to be because he belongs to a religious congregation whose cleric is sometimes a jerk.
It is not uncommon that black preachers feel disassociated with American politics. If is also not uncommon for Religious to mock other religions. (Rabbi Meir Kahane of JDL fame and Palestinians, Pastor Hagee and Roman Catholics, Rev.Farakahn and Jews, Father Coughlin and Jews to name a few).
Let us remember that if elected, it will be Barack Obama who will be President, not his pastor. We need to judge him on his words and actions, not those of his wife, preacher or anyone else.
We can question his judgment in many ways, but not by his religious leanings. Even when we don't agree with our religious leaders, many of us are not about to stand up to them. They are not the same as Political leaders. They do not owe their allegience to you, they owe it to their Higher Power. If you believe in the teaching of that Higher Power, then that ends the issue. One never wins in a debate with God.
Posted by: That Lawyer Dude | March 23, 2020 at 11:38 PM