Is it right for Wrights sermons to force him to deliver two speeches on Easter?”
Obama’s presidential campaign was blind-sided last year when video surfaced of his friend and pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, condemning the United States and suggesting the government was to blame for the HIV/AIDS scourge on black communities. Wright’s sermons forced the then-senator to deliver two speeches: the first, a tempered defense of the pastor whose rhetoric inspired the title of Obama’s memoir; later, a speech about Obama’s views on race that has been viewed almost 6 million times online. Wright followed up with a media tour that personally frustrated Obama and politically enraged his aides. Obama left Trinity United Church of Christ and has been without an official house of worship since then, instead relying on a close circle of advisers and pastors to help him in private. “What the president should do — and I believe would do — is find a church home that’s good for his family,” said Jim Wallis, a progressive evangelical who speaks with White House aides several times eac
