{"id":652,"date":"2008-05-31T18:24:32","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T18:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/05\/did-obama-have-to-leave-trinit.html"},"modified":"2008-05-31T18:24:32","modified_gmt":"2008-05-31T18:24:32","slug":"did-obama-have-to-leave-trinit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/05\/did-obama-have-to-leave-trinit.html","title":{"rendered":"Did Obama Have to Leave Trinity UCC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"obamawright.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/obamawright.jpg\" width=\"118\" \/>Barack Obama has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/05\/31\/obama.church\/index.html\">resigned from Trinity UCC<\/a>, which played a central role in so many milestone events of Obama&#8217;s life: his coming to Christianity, his start as a community organizer&#8211;and, by extension, a politician&#8211;his ability to finally identify comfortably as an African American after being raised by a white mother, not to mention his marriage and the baptisms of his two daughters. The move comes after <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/05\/churches-as-political-liabilit.html\">a guest sermon by Rev. Michael Pfleger<\/a> at Trinity UCC put the church back on front pages of newspapers, weeks after Rev. Jeremiah Wright had done so (again). As surprised as God-o-Meter was by the announcement, after a third round of national controversy at Trinity UCC&#8217;s hands, how must choice did Obama really have?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama has resigned from Trinity UCC, which played a central role in so many milestone events of Obama&#8217;s life: his coming to Christianity, his start as a community organizer&#8211;and, by extension, a politician&#8211;his ability to finally identify comfortably as an African American after being raised by a white mother, not to mention his marriage&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-652","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>Did Obama Have to Leave Trinity UCC? 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