Pfleger: America the greatest sin against God
By Soren Dayton Posted in 2008 | Barack Obama | Michael Pfleger | Pflegler — Comments (8) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Can you believe that Barack Obama gave this guy "at least $225,000" in earmarks?
In September, the Obama campaign brought Pfleger to Iowa to host one of several interfaith forums for the campaign. Pfleger has given money to Obama's campaigns and Obama as a state legislator directed at least $225,000 towards social programs at St. Sabina's, according to the Chicago Tribune. Pfleger appears to have been scrubbed from the Obama campaign's page that features the testimony of faith leaders, but you can see the cached version HERE.
How many more of these are we going to find? Is the press drilling down on his other "campaign leaders" and Chicago earmarks?
I don't think that's working here. This is one Catholic the media can admire but just how many churches or clergymen will Obama still have to disavow ? When he's not uniting us all of course.
At this rate Obama will be spending most of his time in the next five months disavowing people.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
If Obama is the great unifier and healer, why did he choose to quit his church.... rather than try to fix the problems that the church was creating for his campaign?
We've had Fr. Pfleger, Rev. Parsley, Rev. Hagee, Fr.Lisanti and of course the biggest nut of all, Rev Wright. Of course, the fault lies with our politicians tripping all over each other trying to court "religious" Americans on both the Left and Right. All of these political preachers and their churches should lose their tax exempt status.
With the Rev. MLK, Jr. Or maybe back farther, with the preachers who took (both) sides in our political squabble with George III. NOT!
Don't let current minor irritations stoke up your erroneous "separation of church and state" inclinations.
Preachers have, and should have, a position of moral, and therefore political, leadership in the community. They are, like all of us, sometimes unwise.
Preachers are also private citizens and they may participate as such away from the pulpit. From the pulpit, I certainly support their right to preach about issues of social justice - poverty, crime, war, etc. Of course, they also have every right to discuss issues of morality as they see fit. What they must not do, in my opinion, is take partisan stands or make partisan speeches from the pulpit. If a preacher gets up on Sunday (or Friday for Muslims or Saturdays for Jews) and explicitly supports or bashes a political candidate or political party, he/she has put their house of worship's tax exempt status.
For example, being Roman Catholic myself, I see no problem with our parish priest teaching and preaching that abortion or stem cell research is not allowed as a moral issue. He also says that we should exert our political efforts to try to prevent those activities. What he cannot do is say that we are not allowed to vote for Democrats or that we must vote for a Republican candidate. Fr Fleger getting up on stage and ridiculing Sen Clinton and effectively supporting Sen. Obama was out of bounds. Father Lisanti, Mayor Guiliani's priest should not make anti-Obama speeches.
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"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." -- James Madison
...I have waffles to eat and teleprompters to read.
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"We want great men who, when fortune frowns, will not be discouraged." - Colonel Henry Knox
It's ironic that this guy and his cohorts, both in the pulpits and in the pews, will ensure the thing they despise, the election of McCain.
One good thing to come from hearing all this is that it will maybe open everyone's eyes. ( Nah, but maybe some.)