Clinton Pastor Backs Reverend Wright

[Terran]

This is from April 2, but I hadn't seen it here. If it's old news, please ignore, but I thought this was interesting, and gratifying to see such a defense of a man whose name has been dragged through the mud by a bunch of alleged progressives at DU (and elsewhere of course).

http://www2.nysun.com/article/74027

Clinton Pastor Backs Reverend Wright
By RUSSELL BERMAN
Staff Reporter of the Sun
April 2, 2008

WASHINGTON — One of the Democratic presidential candidates has a pastor who opposed both Iraq wars, supports same-sex marriage, opposes the death penalty, and has been a passionate critic of American foreign policy. The clergyman isn't the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Senator Obama's spiritual leader who has become a household name and a campaign issue for his fiery rhetoric, but the Reverend Edward Matthews, a little-known Arkansas preacher who is the closest Senator Clinton has to a pastor of her own.

While Mrs. Clinton says she would have quit Rev. Wright's church, Rev. Matthews expressed sympathy for Rev. Wright in a 35-minute phone interview with The New York Sun.

"We preachers get irresponsible," Rev. Matthews, the former pastor of First United Methodist Church in Little Rock, said yesterday with a laugh. His take on Rev. Wright's now-infamous exclamation, "God Damn America," is that many pastors, himself included, say things "that if we had to say it over again we probably wouldn't say it in the same way."


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1. K&R

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2. Democratic Kick

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3. K/R.

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4. K&R

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5. Thanks for the K&R's

My first thread ever in GD-P...waiting for trolls. =]

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6. I Bet The Pope Has Said

Your holiness, America has invaded the sovereign country of Iraq.

Pope: God Damn America

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7. So did Mike Huckabee

He understands.