"Pastors" revisited: The crazy uncle

I've heard the Senator avoid his ties with his "former" pastor by trying to compare their relationship like that of an old uncle in the family that is a bit of an embarassment to everybody. While I agree that Jeremiah Wright's convictions ought to be an embarassment to anyone with ties to him, the comparison with the goofy uncle is a false comparison.

Here's the rub: We choose our pastors. We ought to carefully scrutinize who we select to sit in submission to as they handle the word of God. Nothing we choose should have greater import (doctors, mechanics...okay...the selection of your spouse might be a bit more important) than selecting a pastor. We do NOT choose our uncles and that is why it is an embarassment.

Cal Thomas nails it in his column "Barak and the Bigot." He says, "I have attended enough churches over the years that if I missed a Sunday service at which the pastor had said something as incendiary as Rev. Wright, I would have heard about it and done more than denounce it. I would have left that church." The other stuff is more than worth the read.

From one of the most cogent authors I know (who happens to be a black American), Thomas Sowell hammers the spin and hypocrisy of Obama's election committee and the press in "Race and Politics." Also well worth the read. "We don't need a President of the United States who got to the White House by talking one way, voting a very different way in the Senate, and who for 20 years followed a man whose words and deeds contradict Obama's carefully crafted election year image."