Reply #47: New York Times, New Yorker...Chicago Tribune...most papers covered this stuff. [View All]

[MADem]

Look, you can continue to "justify" all you want. I really don't care about all of Wright's "good works."

He may not have been giving the money TO Wright, but how do you think Wright got a ten thousand square foot house from the church to retire in? From Jesus in the Sky? Those contributions paid Wright's salary, they pay his PENSION, and they paid for his house.

Here's how anyone who isn't swooning looks at Obama's association with TUCC: Eight to ten THOUSAND votes. And a huge campaign organization, fired up and ready to go. It's how he launched his political career.

His mistake was he STAYED TOO LONG. He should have moved on out of there four or more years ago.

And as for the RC priests, they weren't fucking those little altar boys ON the altar, in public, for the entire parish to see. And everyone believes it happened--even the diehards, who saw their parish churches sold off to PAY the lawsuits. Didn't you notice that the POPE met with abuse victims, and APOLOGIZED?

Wright was making his comments in front of the entire congregation. Gleefully. And SELLING them on DVD in the GIFT SHOP! And broadcasting the sermons on the internet. This wasn't a "dreadful little secret." This was OUT THERE.

It's just NOT the same. And even if we suspended reality, and pretended it were--since when do two wrongs make a right?