In black churches, fiery sermons are the norm, not exception

[RamboLiberal]

The Rev. Amos Brown's Easter sermon at the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco didn't have much to do with Jesus' crucifixion or resurrection from the dead and instead covered everything from skyrocketing gas prices and the subprime mortgage crisis to race relations in the United States and presidential politics.

During his fiery Sunday morning speech, he called President Bush a "one-eyed man," told the predominantly African American congregation that the country is as segregated now as it was 50 years ago and said "America is running on fumes right now ... we are on the wrong road."

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Brown and Wright are friends and graduated years ago from the same seminary class in Dayton, Ohio. Brown, whose own sermons have sparked controversy and grabbed headlines, has a picture of Wright in his church office.

"I don't want nobody to accuse me of being angry," Brown said from the pulpit. "I'm just excited about the Gospel."

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"What you are seeing happening to Barack Obama was hatched, crafted and developed a year ago when you were sleeping," Brown told churchgoers. "This kind of nonsense does not just happen."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/24/BAL8VP5UA.DTL

Unlike the 30 second holier than thou I took the time to watch a lot of Wright's sermons over the weekend and I agree. The MSM did a crucifixtion of Wright and his church.

Also:

Gone mostly unremarked about Obama's former pastor and his seemingly anti-patriotic remarks is the fact that he served in the military, in both the Marines and the Navy.

According to biographical information on the Trinity United Church of Christ's web site, on Wikipedia and elsewhere, Rev. Wright served six years in the U.S. military, in the Marines and the Navy.

As a cardiopulmonary technician in the Navy he attended then-President Lyndon Johnson during a medical procedure -- and was duly thanked by LBJ.

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Not all who have jumped on the Wright affair can claim the same service to his or her country, of course. One thinks, for example, of William Kristol, who referred in a recent New York Times column to "Wright's thoroughgoing and conspiracy-heavy anti-Americanism." No trace of patriotic military service in Kristol's CV, although he is often in favor of the use of U.S. military power abroad.

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One other generally forgotten item on Rev. Wright's resume: He was part of a mission to Libya led by Rev. Jesse Jackson in 1984 which resulted in the freeing of Navy pilot Lt. Ronald Goodman who had been shot down over Lebanon -- a service to the country recognized by then-President Ronald Reagan.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=16&entry_id=25141

[MadMaddie]

1. This is why we have to get the "Fairness Doctrine" reinstated

Faux News must be held accountable for these kind of attacks.

[papau]

2. fiery sermons" about God and your behavior - or about evil Whites?

[RamboLiberal]

3. Where did he call present day whites evil?

This might be more your flavor. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25634

[selador]

4. fiery is one thing

" told the predominantly African American congregation that the country is as segregated now as it was 50 years ago "

delusional is another.

that's so absurd as to be comical.

the country is as segregated now as it was in 1948???

lol

rich