I wonder if God’s name was mentioned once at this “sermon”
Bookworm on Jun 08 2009 at 10:03 am | Filed under: Barack Obama, Religion
Wright crawled out from under the bus to give a “sermon” at Glide Memorial in SF, a “church” more famous for its activism, than its religion. Wright’s “sermon” was in keeping with the “church’s” mission, which is political, not religious:
In a half-hour, high-energy sermon, sprinkled with spontaneous songs, jokes and impersonations, Wright admonished the under-40 generation that Obama’s ascent to the White House is not the culmination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream of equality for all.
“King did not dream that one person would become president, he talked about all people,” Wright said. “We still have a broken health care system, working poor, an education system that misleads our people … Gaza, Darfur and Sudan, and in California, you have Prop. 8.”
And apropos my increasing sense that Obama is a Manchurian candidate, created out of whole cloth, “Pastor” Amos Brown had this info for his congregants:
Brown called Wright a “scholar, gentleman and great builder of people,” and said that Obama would not have been elected had Wright not helped introduce him to influential people in Chicago.
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One thing that I’ve always noticed about leftists is their tendency to create these ponderous memes that they then regurgitate on demand in speech or writing:
“A Neocon regime that bows to Israel and tricked us into an illegal war and torture, costing the lives of thousands of our children and alienating Muslims worldwide while spending money that could have gone for health care, the fight against global warming, new schools, gay rights and enhanced protections for reproductive freedom, while reinvigorating a diplomatic approach that will restore other nations’ respect for us as we also provide good jobs and decent wages for millions of hardworking people, along with quality daycare.”
=QUACK= =QUACK= Doubleplusgood duckspeakers all.
I suspect that Amos Brown was exactly correct, by the way. Maybe that’s what you meant by your reference to the Manchurian Candidate.
Not only hasn’t Obama traveled outside this country, he hasn’t had a “real” political career, either. He’s a creature of the Chicago Machine, and it’s no wonder that his political skills are nonexistent, he can’t nominate an honest man, he has a tin ear for how what he says is going to resonate with real people, etc. None of that was needed while he was in Chicago, because there was always someone to “take care of it” for him.
I hope and pray that America awakes at least to the degree that the Europeans seemed to in their EU elections, so that in 2010 the Congress can begin the cleanup, and in 2012 we can put a real man, rather than an adolescent, in the White House.
If I recall correctly Rev. Wright uses the word G-d when hyphenated with “damn America”.
I am not personally familiar with Glide Memorial nor any other place of worship that uses the pulpit as a political platform.
My naive question: Is this legal? How does a house of prayer get a tax exempt status while engaging in political issues?
“We still have a broken health care system, working poor, an education system that misleads our people … Gaza, Darfur and Sudan, and in California, you have Prop. 8.”
Was he taking a pot shot at Obama or sending a smoke signal to him?
Ah SADIE…..a naive question, indeed.
It’s WHITE churches, and even more specifically TRADITIONAL churches, that must abide by the law concerning politics from the pulpit and the relationship to their tax exempt status.
If you’re a BLACK minister, and particularly of a PROGRESSIVE church, then you can have the “Reverend” Jesse Jackson come to your church and “preach” a full-throated exhortation to go and vote for the candidate of his choice, and exactly NOTHING will be done about it.
I personally heard Marian Wright Edelman give a political speech (openly advocating a single-payer healthcare system, among other things) only vaguely camouflaged as a sermon, in the Reverend Martin Luther King’s home church in Montgomery, AL….and do you imagine in your wildest dreams that there will be any repercussions? Can you just see the headlines and hear the hyperventilation in the media were such a suggestion even to be made?
Never. Going. To. Happen…….
However, if Edelman had suggested that she has a personal relationship with God, or that she believes the Bible limits marriage to a man and a woman, she would have been castigated in every media outlet from San Francisco to New York, with stops inbetween.
Earl:
I posed the question as a naive one.
It was my way of expressing my distaste for the double standards.
As you so aptly put it, “Never. Going. To. Happen…….” and neither will my distaste nor growing resentment over the years. I resent that Bobby Rush turned the Roland Burris debacle into a ‘black thang’ and I am just as resentful that everyone capitulated.
It’s like looking at most of Africa (without the Colonialists in power), still hungry, still poor, still mismanaged, still internal struggles, still..still.. nothing has changed.