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A handful of Christian Right activists have told God-o-Meter that Barack Obama will be much more difficult to demonize among religious conservatives than Barack Obama. You can smell that fear in an email briefing that Focus on the Family Action sent to supporters last night: If he emerges as the Democratic nominee, one of the…

Barack Obama’s church, Trinity UCC in Chicago, launched a new blog last week to defend itself in the firestorm over its longtime pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. It’s called “The Truth About Trinity United Church of Christ”

Rev. Wright may have retired, but Trinity’s UCC’s new pastor isn’t staying mum amid the Wright/Obama controversy, alleging for the second Sunday in a row that the church has been subject to a “crucifixion.” From the AP: The new pastor of Barack Obama’s Chicago church said during Easter Sunday services that recent national scrutiny of…

In a radio interview taped Friday for broadcast today, Barack Obama offered a new argument in response to criticisms that he didn’t denounce Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s most incendiary comments at the time they were spoken. Obama says in the interview (with Philadelphia’s Michael Smerconish, partial transcript from The Page) that he’d been confronting Wright on…
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