http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/trinityucc/ en-us Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:43:35 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045421/posts An interesting nugget from Newsweek's cover story on Obama and his faith: As young marrieds, Barack and Michelle (who also didn't go to church regularly as a child) went to church fairly often-two or three times a month. But after their first child, Malia, was born, they found making the effort more difficult. "I don't know if you've had the experience of taking young, squirming children to church, but it's not easy," he says. "Trinity was always packed, and so you had to get there early. And if you went to the morning service, you were looking at-it just was... americanthinker.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045421/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:43:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036649/posts The Rev. Michael Pfleger, the Chicago priest suspended for two weeks after a sermon mocking Sen. Hillary Clinton, returned to his pulpit on Sunday like a fighter ready to take back the title. In an exclusive interview, Pfleger told "Good Morning America" that he does not "apologize for being passionate, I don't apologize for being free." "But I apologize when my passion or my freeness and my flawedness of character get in the way of a content which is much more important to me," he told "GMA's" Robin Roberts. Pfleger gave the controversial Clinton speech on May 25 as a... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036649/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:02:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2033743/posts Donald Young, a vibrant, charismatic choir director at one of Chicago's largest open and affirming black congregations, Trinity United Church of Christ, was found shot to death this past Sunday in his home. Young,47, was a longtime member of Trinity's choir, initially singing bass and then moving up the ranks to become one of its most electrifying and popular directors. He was also a faithful attendee at the conferences of the Gospel Music Workshop of America. The details about why and exactly how he died remain unclear; there is, however, one story that emerges with some semblance of clarity: a... GBMNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2033743/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:41:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032098/posts Like losers in a shell game, most of us got snookered into looking under the wrong nutshell regarding the inflammatory and racist sermon delivered last month by the Rev. Michael Pfleger during his guest appearance at Barack Obama's church in Chicago. The media focused the spotlight on what Pfleger, a visiting Catholic priest, said about Hillary Clinton from the pulpit at Trinity United Church of Christ, prompting Obama to end his 20-plus year association with the church. "When Hillary was crying and people said that was put on, I really don't believe it was put on," proclaimed Pfleger, feigning tears... The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032098/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:04:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028710/posts If everybody in America saw this video -- that really makes it clear, in his own words, how much Barack Obama despises white people -- he'd lose in a landslide. PS: Just in case you were wondering, this was apparently put together by a Hillary supporter and it is extremely powerful. (The video is at the link) Right Wing News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028710/posts#comment Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:02:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026736/posts Who's Tony Rezko? William Ayers? Few Americans know, but they probably will by Election Day. Rezko is a Chicago businessman, convicted of more than a dozen charges this week. Ayers is a professor - and former member of the radical Weather Underground. Both have ties to Barack Obama and may well show up in anti-Obama ads you'll be seeing before long. These days, presidential candidates can expect to have every personal relationship, new or ancient, inspected like a crime scene on "CSI." Then, if there's political hay to be made, a version of the details is quickly out. Republican John... WJLA-TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026736/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:39:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026625/posts UPDATE: Much like written words don't do justice to Jeremiah Wright's sermons, the video must be watched to be believed. Pfleger is introduced as "a friend of Trinity", and then the YouTube skips ahead to one section: I must now to address the one who says, 'don't hold me responsible for what my ancestors did.' But you have enjoyed the benefits of what your ancestors did! And unless you are ready to give up the benefits — Throw away your 401 fund! [sic] Throw away your trust fund! Throw away all the money that been put away in the company... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026625/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 19:26:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2026575/posts Senator Obama is now trying to erase his personal history by resigning from his radical Left church, after two decades of active membership -- that's more than 1,000 Sunday sermons over twenty years. The media will do their best to help him fuzz over that history, just as they have tried to eradicate the memory of the Twin Towers and Pentagon assaults seven years ago. Yet the evidence is overwhelming by now that Trinity United is a front for the hard Left, which is trying to turn American blacks into another angry proletariat, to be played and controlled by their... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2026575/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 18:04:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025889/posts "I'm going to buy a bed and get some furniture from the church basement and move into an apartment in the neighborhood," a deflated-sounding Pfleger told me, while the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ where Pfleger made the fiery statements late last month that got him into this latest donnybrook with the cardinal, waited to take him to a late dinner. "I'm trying to find out what [George] means by 'a couple of weeks.' There's no timeline. There's no date. Give me a time. It just says a couple of weeks. I don't know .... Chicago Sun-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025889/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:20:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026356/posts When Sen. Barack Obama severed ties with his Chicago church, most political observers saw the move as a way for the candidate to insulate himself from the controversies stirred by its retiring pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. But Trinity United Church of Christ does not have that kind of insulation. According to sources within Trinity, Wright, 66, who began the process of retirement two years ago, is resisting fully relinquishing his duties as senior pastor, hanging on to power in the church he helped build. Time http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026356/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 11:44:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026319/posts Senator Obama is now trying to erase his personal history by resigning from his radical Left church, after two decades of active membership -- that's more than 1,000 Sunday sermons over twenty years. The media will do their best to help him fuzz over that history, just as they have tried to eradicate the memory of the Twin Towers and Pentagon assaults seven years ago.  Yet the evidence is overwhelming by now that Trinity United is a front for the hard Left, which is trying to turn American blacks into another angry proletariat, to be played and controlled by their new... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026319/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 07:47:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025875/posts In case you fell victim to Barack Obama's cynical attempt to bury a major news story by holding a press conference in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on a Saturday night during the Democratic National Committee's public fight over Michigan and Florida delegates, let me fill you in: Obama has finally resigned from that loony, racist church of his in Chicago. Back in March, while delivering what the sycophantic mainstream media described at the time as the greatest speech since "I have a dream," Obama assured us that he could no more disown his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, than he could disown... AXcess News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025875/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jun 2008 15:54:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025769/posts While some question the impact of preaching from the pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ on Senator Obama's thinking, the influence of one of Trinity's most recommended authors on Obama is clear. Three of Randall Robinson's books are available for purchase on Trinity's website. One, entitled "The Debt: What America Owes To Blacks," is particularly important to understanding Obama's notion of reparations. So who is Randall Robinson? He's a Harvard-educated lawyer, author, and civil-rights activist born in 1941. Robinson is described by Wikipedia this way: American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025769/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jun 2008 12:10:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025607/posts Decision '08: Barack Obama is changing churches in hopes of changing the subject long enough to slip into the White House. But it won't change what he believes. Who'll pin him down?A careful reading of the transcript of Obama's press conference over the weekend reveals that he neither denounced his church nor permanently quit it. He twice left open the door to rejoining Trinity United Church of Christ after the election. He said he and his wife merely decided "it was going to be very difficult to continue our membership there so long as I was running for president." Typical... IBD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025607/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jun 2008 01:22:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025436/posts How long can Barack Obama carry forward this ruse that he is a uniter, when he has placed himself in a climate that is, at the very least, quite accomodating to the anti-white racist perspective, vulgarity and anti-Americanism? It strained credulity that Obama could have been unaware of the toxic environment of his Trinity United Church of Christ and its pastor, Jeremiah Wright. That didn't pass the laugh test. But now we have the Rev. Michael Pfleger bursting on the scene and spewing the most offensive, racially charged remarks imaginable. Truly, if Obama weren't the darling of the MSM and... Insight http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025436/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 20:07:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025372/posts Church leaders and members cheered Pfleger’s racial hate speech, sanctioned blood libels of U.S. and Israel In one of George Macdonald Fraser’s “Flashman” books, Harry Flashman–the school bully from “Tom Brown’s School Days”–is watching a public hanging. The man next to him suggests that, instead of watching the actual hanging, he watch his fellow Britons’ reaction to it because it will be far more entertaining and enlightening. It is similarly far more enlightening to watch the reaction of Barack and Michelle Obama’s fellow churchgoers to Father Michael Pfleger’s hate speech, even though Pfleger’s obvious feigned outrage and overacting is the... IsraPundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025372/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 18:04:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025188/posts A self-identified African-American caller to a Washington, D.C., radio station characterized the recent anti-Hillary Clinton outburst by the white liberal Chicago priest, Michael Pfleger, as a “minstrel show.” Pfleger, who was preaching “another gospel,” which the authentic gospel warns against, denounced Sen. Clinton for her effrontery and sense of “entitlement” in trying to take the Democratic presidential nomination from a black man, one Barack Obama. Pfleger, who donated $1,500 to the Obama campaign between 1995 and 2001, is indebted to Obama because when Obama was in the Illinois legislature, he, according to the Chicago Tribune, “announced $225,000 in grants to... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025188/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 08:49:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2025179/posts This fascinating New Republic story about Barack Obama’s days as a community organizer came out over a year ago: Chicago pastors still remember Obama making the rounds of local churches and conducting interviews—in organizing lingo, "one-on-ones"—where he would probe for self-interest. The Reverend Alvin Love, the Baptist minister of a modest brick church amid the clapboard bungalows of the South Side, was one of Obama's first one-on-ones. During a recent visit to his church, Love told me, "I remember he said this to me: There ought to be some way for us to help you meet your self-interest while at... The Volokh Conspiracy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2025179/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 07:00:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025168/posts There are people in this world who believe that America is a force for evil in the world. They are called Europeans. Then there are people who feel the same way, but who will help elect the next president of the United States. They’re called Obama supporters. Calm down, my Cambridge friends. I am not saying that Sen. Barack Obama hates America. But even his most ardent supporters must admit - when they aren’t fainting away at his campaign appearances - that there is a direct and disturbing correlation between hating America and loving Barack. In Europe, for example, they... The Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025168/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 05:14:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2025145/posts While Rev. Jeremiah Wright was preaching "G_d damn America" and blaming our government for creating the AIDS virus to kill black people, he and his Trinity Church of Christ on Chicago's South Side collected more than $15 million in grants from the federal government. Fox News' Jeff Goldblatt brings us this outrage: FOX News has learned that over the last 15 years, Trinity has received at least $15 million in grants from the federal government — in other words, taxpayer money. Records show this money supported a variety of outreach: everything from low income housing to nutritional programs for needy... Advance Indiana http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2025145/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 03:42:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025125/posts None of it came from Obama; he was too busy getting earmarks for Pfleger. Look, the parishioners pay their taxes, however damned by God they might think the Treasury Department is, and the church does appear to be putting the money towards charitable programs — although given Wright’s beliefs about AIDS, I’m mighty curious to see the lesson plan for the HIV “education” program. Unless someone can show it’s being spent on improper ends, like, hypothetically, a mansion for the ex-pastor, I’m not sure what the beef is. FOX News has learned that over the last 15 years, Trinity has... hotair.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025125/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 02:54:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025092/posts Obama’s Ex-Church Has Won $15M in Federal Grant Money by FOXNews.com Monday, June 2, 2008 By Jeff Goldblatt Across America seven days a week, parents drop their kids at day care centers, which are supported by funding from the federal government. But what makes one facility noteworthy in inner city Chicago is that it’s run by Trinity United Church of Christ. It’s the same church whose former head pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, drew widespread scrutiny after he cursed the U.S. government for its treatment of African-Americans. FOX News has learned that over the last 15 years, Trinity has received at... FOX http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025092/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 01:25:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024876/posts Suppose that a political candidate of the Caucasian persuasion belonged to a church whose minister (call him JimCrow White for the sake of argument) consorted openly with the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, and arranged an award for the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. The same minister proclaimed that the Black people in New Orleans got a wake-up call with Hurricane Katrina. This minister’s replacement then welcomed a guest speaker who proclaimed from the pulpit, with the church’s tax exempt resources, that “There were a whole lot of Black people crying” because the candidate’s African-American opponent... The Husaria: For Our Freedom and Yours http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024876/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jun 2008 17:47:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024935/posts National Review Online: Senator Approves Of The Political-Theological Outlooks Of Michael Pfleger and Jeremiah Wright Having now left Trinity United Church of Christ, can Barack Obama escape responsibility for his decades-long ties to Michael Pfleger and Jeremiah Wright? No, he cannot. Obama’s connections to the radical-left politics espoused by Pfleger and Wright are broad and deep. The real reason Obama bound himself to Wright and Pfleger in the first place is that he largely approved of their political-theological outlooks. Obama shared Wright’s rejection of black “assimilation.” Obama also shared Wright’s suspicion of the traditional American ethos of individual self-improvement and... CBS News/National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024935/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jun 2008 19:52:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024948/posts A part of modern political Americana says he's gone Pittsburgh Tribune-Review By Salena Zito Former President William Jefferson Clinton told supporters in South Dakota that this many be his last day that he is ever involved in a campaign of this kind. Pittsburgh Tribune Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024948/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jun 2008 20:12:15 GMT