Feb 26 2009
Relocated: Jeremiah Wright
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Jeremiah Wright
I’m getting really sick of hearing about Jeremiah Wright. Let it go. There are several reasons I think this should be a non-issue, but the main one is this. Obama is far from the first person to go to a church whose pastor he does not entirely agree with.
The biggest example of this would be American Catholics. Catholics have been told repeatedly that voting for pro-choice candidates is a sin. Yet, Catholics are a consistent strong base of support for the Democratic Party.
Church and politics should be separate, first of all. What religion someone is or is not should not affect their chances of being elected. Second of all, organized religion, by nature, is very doctrine and dogma based. How many Christians belong to churches where some of the members believe in creationism? Do all of them believe in creationism themselves? How many Catholics have sex before marriage with a guilt-free conscious, or, even if they practice abstinence, believe that others have a right to make choices about their own reproductive lives?
Unless Hillary and her supporters are prepared to publicly ridicule all of the Irish, Italian and Latin Catholics that keep her party in power, especially in big cities, the Jeremiah Wright issue should be dropped.
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