Obama to attend (unidentified) D.C. church for Easter

[jefferson_dem]

Obama to attend D.C. church for Easter
By NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON | 4/9/09 8:42 PM EDT Text Size:

Come Easter Sunday, President Barack Obama will attend a local church for the first time since taking office, but aides say that won’t necessarily be the church he and his family join.

The White House wouldn’t say where Obama will be on Sunday – but did say that the Obamas search for a more lasting spiritual home in the capital has been going on for some time.

Friends have been quietly checking out churches in the Washington, D.C., area to see which might be a good fit for the family, one aide familiar with the process said.

That reflects in part the difficulty and politically charged nature of Obama’s choice nearly a year after he broke from his controversial Chicago church over statements by his former pastor.

But the White House rejected the notion that the churches underwent some kind of formal scrutiny, with the aide saying, “It’s not an all-out vetting of every church in DC.”

“I think that some members of staff have checked out some churches and worshiped in a quiet way but there is not extensive questioning of churches or pastors,” this aide said. "Any decision that the president is engaged in we certainly check it out carefully and that would certainly be the same with this."

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21094.html

[flvegan]

1. No matter which church they choose, folks will find fault with it.

[elleng]

2. So Sad that they have to go thru that!

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[firedupdem]

3. Ridiculous that they just can't go wherever they want to. They

are going to dig around looking for a story and ruin the entire experience. Assholes.

[Princess Turandot]

4. They might opt for St. John's Episcopal..

for the occasion, Benjamin Henry Latrobe's pretty little church right across Lafayette Park from the WH. I believe that every president since it opened ~1815 or so has attended at least one service there. It would be a traditional choice, history-wise.

http://www.stjohns-dc.org/

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