Obama Quits Church Over Inflammatory Comments

Derek Kravitz and Keith B. Richburg / The Washington Post:
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and his wife, Michelle, announced that they have left their longtime Chicago church, Trinity United Church of Christ, after racially charged comments by a visiting pastor last week dragged them into yet another controversy over religion and race. The resignation came Friday in a letter Obama sent to the church's head pastor, the Rev. Otis Moss III. The Democrat presidential candidate said he and his wife had been discussing leaving the church since his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., made a theatrical and controversial April 28 appearance at the National Press Club.

Posted by Editor at June 2, 2008 02:29 AM