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If you thought Barack Obama’s Chicago church would try to lay low in hopes that the controversy over the video-taped sermons of Rev. Jeremiah Wright would soon pass, you thought wrong. The church’s new minister struck back during Sunday’s services, and a statement by the church compared the recent tsunami of criticism of Wright to…

And God-o-Meter didn’t even know Wright served Obama in an official capacity (it might have been more a ceremonial position than anything else). Politico has the story. God-o-Meter is lowering its needle for obvious reasons.

Barack Obama has just responded to the flap over the videos of Jeremiah Wright’s controversial and racially-charged sermons with statements to the Huffington Post and Christian Broadcasting Network. (When’s the last time a Democratic candidate chose those two outlets as the only recipients of a major statement?) God-o-Meter was taken by how forcefully Obama rejected…

ABC News has dug up more video of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Most Controversial Sermons, including one from 2003 in which Wright says this about the plight of blacks in the United States: “The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No,…
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