Posted on 06/01/2008 8:21:23 PM PDT by LdSentinal
June 01, 2008 10:46 PM
In another excerpt from Rev. Michael Pfleger's sermon last Sunday, May 25, from the pulpit of Sen. Barack Obama's now former church, Trinity United Church of Christ on the South side of Chicago, the longtime Obama associate condemns America for racism in fairly harsh terms.
Watch HERE.
"Racism is still America's greatest addiction," Pfleger says. "I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God."
There seems to be a mixed reaction to that from the pews. But Pfleger explains:
"If the greatest command is to love, than the sin against love must be the greatest sin against God who IS love and who calls us to love one another. So that this greatest sin against God, racism, it's as natural as the air we breath."
Obama, of course, resigned from Trinity on Friday, saying he didn't want to be held accountable for every word spoken from the pulpit at the church, and he didn't want the church to continue to have the media disrupting its worship. The last straw may have been Pfleger's mocking of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, from the pulpit in this same sermon.
But Obama's relationship with Pfleger -- who is the priest at a different, Catholic, church -- spans decades.
In September, the Obama campaign brought Pfleger to Iowa to host one of several interfaith forums for the campaign. Pfleger has given money to Obama's campaigns and Obama as a state legislator directed at least $225,000 towards social programs at St. Sabina's, according to the Chicago Tribune. Pfleger appears to have been scrubbed from the Obama campaign's page that features the testimony of faith leaders, but you can see the cached version HERE.
- jpt
UPDATE: Asked for a response to this newly-posted excerpt from the sermon, the Obama campaign has re-released the same statement it issued last week after the video of Rev Pfleger's mocking of Sen. Clinton was released: As I have traveled this country, I've been impressed not by what divides us, but by all that that unites us. That is why I am deeply disappointed in Father Pfleger's divisive, backward-looking rhetoric, which doesn't reflect the country I see or the desire of people across America to come together in common cause. - Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois
I just love this nutjobs who think America is more evil than just about any tin pot dictatorship on Earth. Maybe the good Father should have spent some time in Cambodia’s killing fields.
The Catholic Church comtinues to pay him to spew this crap...
As this church seems to clearly demonstrate each and every week.
Killing six million jews was nothing. We still have a few blacks who did not get served at Denny’s a several years back.
Excerpt was just broadcast on the John Batchelor radio show, KFI-AM. Thanks for the link.
So, the whole Hitler Thing was some sort of National Festival?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“”Racism is still America’s greatest addiction,”
Really? I thought it was smoking and sex.
IF there is racism here, it’s the minorities that are racist towards whites. Codified into special protected classes. Wanting reparations from people who never had slaves and weren’t even here when it happened. Can’t ever drop racism because it’s too big a minority industry now. They don’t want MLK’s vision of a colorblind society because if that happens, their gravy train monopoly is over.
Hopefully not for long now that the National spotlight has shone on him. They may have been able to brush off the local coverage of him, but not now. If the Catholic Church does NOT address this though, then there is a BIG problem.
This is actually a core belief among liberals. Murder? Rape? Child abuse? It all pales in comparison to the greatest evil in the universe, racism.
Where are those Romney supporters now that we need them.
I’m at least glad that in this article they point out that Barack can’t explain away his close association with Fr. Pflager by saying “oh, he’s not MY pastor anymore...”. I’m surprised that they are covering this as well as they are, frankly...
LOVE it. Hope Obama gets the nomination.
Beating him will be like taking candy from a kid.
Reverand Pfledger you need to go on a mission trip to a foreign country. You have been living in the promised land way too long.
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