{"id":457,"date":"2008-03-26T15:29:55","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T15:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/03\/rev-wright-cancels-public-appe.html"},"modified":"2008-03-26T15:29:55","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T15:29:55","slug":"rev-wright-cancels-public-appe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/03\/rev-wright-cancels-public-appe.html","title":{"rendered":"Rev. Wright Cancels Public Appearances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"wright5.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/wright5.jpg\" width=\"117\" \/>And not just one or two. How long can &#8220;security concerns&#8221; be blamed for the cancellations? If Obama wins the nomination, will Wright forego public speaking till Election Day? Inauguration Day? Longer than that?<br \/>\nFrom the <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jqSFBLeLULLJ_P7I8toJtE8uBWtQD8VL9C9O0\">Associated Press<\/a>:<br \/>\nThe Rev. Jeremiah Wright, presidential candidate Barack Obama&#8217;s controversial former pastor, canceled plans Wednesday to receive an award at a summit on black churches.<br \/>\nThe Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth announced on its Web site that Wright will not attend the State of the Black Church Summit and awards banquet in Dallas. The school was planning to present Wright with an award Saturday.<br \/>\nWright has also canceled plans to speak at three services in a Houston church Sunday. He canceled plans Tuesday to speak at a church in Tampa, Fla.<br \/>\nIn a speech last week, Obama sharply condemned Wright&#8217;s remarks damning America for its treatment of minorities and saying the U.S. government invented AIDS to destroy black people.<br \/>\nThe Rev. Marcus Cosby, pastor at Houston&#8217;s Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church, told Houston television station KTRK and the Houston Chronicle that safety concerns had prompted Wright&#8217;s decision.<br \/>\nCosby told the Chronicle that Wright cited three reasons for canceling: &#8220;the safety of the institution to which he has been invited; the safety of his family, which has been placed in harm&#8217;s way; and for his own safety.&#8221;<br \/>\nWright also canceled his appearance Tuesday in Florida at a Tampa-area church. The hosting church said it asked Wright to cancel his scheduled three-day appearance because of security questions.<br \/>\nJoan Harrell, minister of communications for Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, where Wright was pastor for nearly four decades, didn&#8217;t immediately return a phone call from The Associated Press on Wednesday&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And not just one or two. How long can &#8220;security concerns&#8221; be blamed for the cancellations? If Obama wins the nomination, will Wright forego public speaking till Election Day? Inauguration Day? Longer than that? From the Associated Press: The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, presidential candidate Barack Obama&#8217;s controversial former pastor, canceled plans Wednesday to receive an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rev. Wright Cancels Public Appearances - God-O-Meter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/03\/rev-wright-cancels-public-appe.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rev. Wright Cancels Public Appearances - God-O-Meter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"And not just one or two. How long can &#8220;security concerns&#8221; be blamed for the cancellations? If Obama wins the nomination, will Wright forego public speaking till Election Day? Inauguration Day? Longer than that? From the Associated Press: The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, presidential candidate Barack Obama&#8217;s controversial former pastor, canceled plans Wednesday to receive an&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/03\/rev-wright-cancels-public-appe.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"God-O-Meter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-03-26T15:29:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/files\/import\/wright5.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"dgilgoff\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Rev. Wright Cancels Public Appearances - God-O-Meter","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/03\/rev-wright-cancels-public-appe.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Rev. Wright Cancels Public Appearances - God-O-Meter","og_description":"And not just one or two. How long can &#8220;security concerns&#8221; be blamed for the cancellations? If Obama wins the nomination, will Wright forego public speaking till Election Day? Inauguration Day? Longer than that? From the Associated Press: The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, presidential candidate Barack Obama&#8217;s controversial former pastor, canceled plans Wednesday to receive an&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/03\/rev-wright-cancels-public-appe.html","og_site_name":"God-O-Meter","article_published_time":"2008-03-26T15:29:55+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/files\/import\/wright5.jpg"}],"author":"dgilgoff","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/03\/rev-wright-cancels-public-appe.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/03\/rev-wright-cancels-public-appe.html","name":"Rev. Wright Cancels Public Appearances - God-O-Meter","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/03\/rev-wright-cancels-public-appe.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/03\/rev-wright-cancels-public-appe.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/files\/import\/wright5.jpg","datePublished":"2008-03-26T15:29:55+00:00","dateModified":"2008-03-26T15:29:55+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/#\/schema\/person\/b7e97412c87d7a3b866e9972cc090db4"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/03\/rev-wright-cancels-public-appe.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/03\/rev-wright-cancels-public-appe.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/03\/rev-wright-cancels-public-appe.html#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/files\/import\/wright5.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/files\/import\/wright5.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/03\/rev-wright-cancels-public-appe.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Rev. Wright Cancels Public Appearances"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/","name":"God-O-Meter","description":"A scientific measure of God-talk in the elections","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/#\/schema\/person\/b7e97412c87d7a3b866e9972cc090db4","name":"dgilgoff","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/858\/858da2927809a8352512cd24712c020cx96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/858\/858da2927809a8352512cd24712c020cx96.jpg","caption":"dgilgoff"},"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/author\/dgilgoff"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}