Pastor Of Clinton's Former Church: Don't Use Wright To Polarize-Defends Wright

[RamboLiberal]

On Tuesday, Sen. Hillary Clinton re-stoked the flames of the controversy surrounding Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor, saying she would have long ago distanced herself from Rev. Jeremiah Wright if she had attended his church.

"He would not have been my pastor," Clinton told a gathering of the campaign press corps, repeating a line she used earlier in the day on a Pittsburgh radio program. "You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend."

But the pastor at the church that Clinton did once attend has recently expressed public support for Wright. He's even proclaimed it a "grave injustice" to make a judgment on Wright based off of "two or three sound bites," and criticized those who would "use a few of quotes to polarize."

Last week, Dean Snyder, the senior minister at the Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington D.C. -- which the Clintons famously attended while in the White House -- released a little noticed statement offering a sympathetic defense of the totality of Wright's work.

"The Reverend Jeremiah Wright is an outstanding church leader whom I have heard speak a number of times," Snyder wrote. "He has served for decades as a profound voice for justice and inclusion in our society. To evaluate his dynamic ministry on the basis of two or three sound bites does a grave injustice to Dr. Wright, the members of his congregation, and the African-American church which has been the spiritual refuge of a people that has suffered from discrimination, disadvantage, and violence. Dr. Wright, a member of an integrated denomination, has been an agent of racial reconciliation while proclaiming perceptions and truths uncomfortable for some white people to hear. Those of us who are white Americans would do well to listen carefully to Dr. Wright rather than to use a few of his quotes to polarize."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/25/pastor-of-clintons-forme_n_93418.html

Note: He wasn't pastor at church when Clinton's were in the WH.

[donheld]

1. Sounds like Hillary's pastor has more integrity than she does

big surprise.

[Cogito ergo doleo]

2. Delete

[crankychatter]

3. edit delete

move along folks, nothing to see here.

[crankychatter]

4. Clinton MUST DENOUNCE AND REPUDIATE this Heretic NOW

I love caps... sorry, couldn't resist

Gawud who is the Clinton Camp to lecture ANYONE about loyalty?

[ClayZ]

5. K and R

[anamandujano]

6. Story still going.

I seriously doubt Wright only gifted Hannity with a few sound bites. They are saving the best for last.

BTW, I think pastors should confine their sermons to those who willfully attend their churches. I am very sick of being preached at.

[ShortnFiery]

8. It's a shame that you did NOT understand this minister's caution that unbridled self-righteousness

is NOT Christ-like. HRC is not a member of that community and a large church such as that Rev. Wright used (he's retired) to lead has MANY preachers.

Remember those of you who are fanning the flames of hate-fest toward Rev. Wright:

Pride goeth before a fall.

She's not only stoked the embers of divisive wedge politics, but she's also throwing the entire 8400 members of Chicago's Trinity Church of Christ under the bus.

Way to stay classy Hilly.

[george_maniakes]

11. Sure condemn a man for what he might have said....

thats fair.

[Window]

7. K/R and bookmarked.

:kick:

[Perry Logan]

9. I'm afraid the Huffington Post has become virtually useless.

[babylonsister]

10. Only when you don't agree with them, which for you is often, I guess. nt