And not just one or two. How long can “security concerns” be blamed for the cancellations? If Obama wins the nomination, will Wright forego public speaking till Election Day? Inauguration Day? Longer than that?
From the Associated Press:
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, presidential candidate Barack Obama’s controversial former pastor, canceled plans Wednesday to receive an award at a summit on black churches.
The Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth announced on its Web site that Wright will not attend the State of the Black Church Summit and awards banquet in Dallas. The school was planning to present Wright with an award Saturday.
Wright has also canceled plans to speak at three services in a Houston church Sunday. He canceled plans Tuesday to speak at a church in Tampa, Fla.
In a speech last week, Obama sharply condemned Wright’s remarks damning America for its treatment of minorities and saying the U.S. government invented AIDS to destroy black people.
The Rev. Marcus Cosby, pastor at Houston’s Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church, told Houston television station KTRK and the Houston Chronicle that safety concerns had prompted Wright’s decision.
Cosby told the Chronicle that Wright cited three reasons for canceling: “the safety of the institution to which he has been invited; the safety of his family, which has been placed in harm’s way; and for his own safety.”
Wright also canceled his appearance Tuesday in Florida at a Tampa-area church. The hosting church said it asked Wright to cancel his scheduled three-day appearance because of security questions.
Joan Harrell, minister of communications for Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, where Wright was pastor for nearly four decades, didn’t immediately return a phone call from The Associated Press on Wednesday….
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posted March 26, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Rev. Wright should begin the dialog so necessary on race in this country.
The Obama camp should not influence in any way the opportunity for Rev. Wright to explain his theology to the rest of the country.
This is a once in a life time opportunity that the subject of race relations is ripe for harvesting a new understanding between all races that inhabit this melting pot we love.
If Rev. Wright is the Christian man of God Obama and his fellow church members believe him to be he should be ready and not afraid to respond to the calling of God before him, and begin to bring Glory to God by helping heal this land.
Christ went to the cross resigned to accomplish the will of God. Lest all of us should be ready to do the same, including Rev. Wright.
This nation needs to hear that voice crying in the wilderness. Where are you, Rev. Wright?
posted March 28, 2008 at 1:34 am
The news medias are hindering what can be a coming together by talking about Rev. Wright daily. What some mean for evil,God can bring. about some unity,by talking about the great racial divide. Rev. Wright has to continue to be wise like Christ when to go into Jerusalem and make himself know and speak. There is a time for everything. The wisdom of God is far better than the wisdom of the world.
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