{"id":655,"date":"2008-06-02T17:51:41","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T17:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/06\/are-wright-and-pfleger-history.html"},"modified":"2008-06-02T17:51:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T17:51:41","slug":"are-wright-and-pfleger-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/06\/are-wright-and-pfleger-history.html","title":{"rendered":"Are Wright and Pfleger History?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"wrightpfleger.jpg\"Now that Barack Obama has publicly parted ways with Trinity United Church of Christ, are all those sermon controversies behind him? Maybe not. Unlike John McCain’s recent split from John Hagee and Rod Parsley, Obama and the two religious figures who ignited national firestorms from Trinity’s pulpit–Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Father Michael Pfleger–have longstanding friendships that go back many years.
\nAs Michael Medved<\/a> points out today:<\/p>\n

He also cited Father Michael Pfleger as one of his three primary spiritual mentors (along with Jeremiah Wright) and until last week Pfleger played a prominent role in Obamas campaign.
\nApologists say that the candidate\u2019s three years in the U.S. Senate say far more about him than his twenty years with Pastor Wright, but he\u2019s actually done nothing as a Senator from Illinois other than launch and conduct a hugely successful presidential campaign. Then, of course, there\u2019s the record of his years in the state senate in Illinois \u2013– where, as it happens, his proudest accomplishments included securing $200,000 in taxpayer money for Father Pfleger\u2019s parish on the southwest side<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nOf course, a right-winger like Medved might not damage Obama much among Democrats, Independents, and independent-minded Republicans. But how long till some investigative journalist does a long piece probing the Obama-Wright-Pfleger connection? Like Medved said, Obama has cited Pfleger and Wright as two of his three spiritual mentors.<\/p>\n


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Now that Barack Obama has publicly parted ways with Trinity United Church of Christ, are all those sermon controversies behind him? Maybe not. Unlike John McCain’s recent split from John Hagee and Rod Parsley, Obama and the two religious figures who ignited national firestorms from Trinity’s pulpit–Rev. 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