In what must have been one of the most difficult moments in his political life, Barack Obama finally denounced his former pastor in a stinging rebuke that was long overdue.
I think about how hard it would have been for me to give such a speech to my former pastor. I remember listening to his sermon and disagreeing with him on many occasions, but his sermons stuck to the Bible and his interpretation of Jesus' message, not politics or racial remarks. If fact, he went out of his way to avoid hot button issues around election time, and threw away anti-abortion political flyers if he saw them in the back of the church.
I find myself thinking, what could've made me walk out of the church my kids were baptized in? Certainly not one offensive sermon, and possibly not two. But year after year of imflamatory, bigoted rhetoric? Absolutely. And my former pastor (now retired) would definitely not go on a media tour to prove me wrong.
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