Reply #47: So, your pentecostal preacher was inclusive of all races and lifestyles?

[Smelting Pot]

If so, he should have been given an award of some kind because he would be the only one I've ever heard of!

You seem to not understand the role of the church in many black American's lives. It's not the same as the role of the church for white America. It is NOT hate speech for Rev. Wright to say "God Damn America" or the USA is the KKK. It is an expression of the frustration and, yes, anger that most of his parishioners feel. What we have not heard is where the sermons go from these points. The soundbites we are being exposed to are the CLIMAXES not the lesson that the church goers are being asked to take away with them. They are being taken out of context in more ways than one.