Sunday, June 01, 2008

"America Is The Greatest Sin Against God"

clipped from blogs.abcnews.com

"Racism is still America's greatest addiction," Pfleger says. "I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God."


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 href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/05/priest-and-obam.html">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

Move along now...