Grassroots leader: Obama should step away from his church, former pastor

The head of Grassfire.org, a grassroots conservative organization, believes the controversy over comments made by the retired pastor of Barack Obama's Chicago church will not go away-and that the Democratic presidential hopeful will not be able to brush aside or downplay what was said.For 20 years Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois) has been a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, pastored by Jeremiah Wright. It was at that church and under that pastor that Obama claims he accepted Jesus as his Savior. But recent reports on talk radio, by the alternative media, and even by some members of the mainstream media have unearthed remarks Wright made that have been viewed as anti-white and even anti-Christian. According to Steve Elliot, president of Grassfire.org, Obama's home church has promoted "radical, African-centric, anti-white, anti-American, anti-Jewish values"-and Jeremiah Wright, he adds, is "the pastor that basically discipled him."Elliot encourages individuals to examine Trinity's website to gain more insight into Wright's views and the levels of "hatred" and "racial divisiveness"he promotes."It is-quote-'a congregation that unashamedly black and unapologetically Christian.We are an African people and remain true to our native land, the mother continent,'" he shares."Now imagine if that language had been flopped-if you replaced white for black in all of that," he suggests."That church would be considered a Ku Klux Klan church." Wright has even cursed the United States, says Elliot. "He said in America it's not God bless America; its God 'blank' America," he notes. "And after 9/11 he blamed America for what happened to us on that day. And it goes on and on." The conservative activist says even though Wright's comments are more than a month old, the liberal media has refused to make Obama's church a campaign issue as it did with Mitt Romney and his Mormon faith. He also suggests that the Illinois senator needs to clearly step away from Trinity UCC and Pastor Wright if he wants to maintain credibility with the electorate-because the controversy, he believes, is not going to go away very easily. "I think he's going to have to answer for it," states Elliot. "And it's not something that he's going to be able to walk away from in either the Democratic part of this process the primaries or in the general election, if he should win the nomination." The Democratic frontrunner has called the aired excerpts of Wright's sermons "complete unacceptable and inexcusable," but also has stated he never heard his pastor make those statements. Had such statements been "the repeated tenor of the church," says Obama, he would have quit the church. (see earlier article) Obama also points out that he condemned Wright's controversial statements when they came to his attention at the beginning of his presidential campaign last year. But because of his deep ties to the 6,000-member congregation, he said he decided not to leave.
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