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It appears that Obama is going to stick with Trinity and its new Pastor, Otis Moss III. As Gateway Pundit points out, Tim Russert asked him directly about this on Meet the Press:

MR. RUSSERT: You’re still a member of the church?

SEN. OBAMA: I am.

and later

SEN. OBAMA: Right. Well, my commitment, as I said, Tim, is to the church, not to a pastor. And I think that’s shared by millions of people who are going to church this morning. You, you join a church community, and Reverend Wright helped build a wonderful church community, one that has been a pillar of good works in Chicago, and, you know, I feel a great loyalty to that church. Reverend Wright was going to be retiring in a year, and I thought it was important for me to maintain my commitment to that church.

Apparently, Senator Obama has been too busy on the campaign trail to learn about Wright’s hand picked successor, Otis Moss III. Maybe he should read the coverage over at World Net Daily that claims that Moss accepts the same arguments that Wright made and affirmed at the NAACP. These are the same whacky arguments that forced Obama to publicly denounce Wright not once but twice. In the article titled “Uh-oh, here we go again: Meet Obama’s new pastor“, we learn the following:

The man slated to become chief pastor at the Trinity United Church of Christ has called blacks “lepers” with a “skin disease,” claimed U.S. entertainment corporations operate with “disdain” for black people, and in a fiery sermon claimed retired pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright was “lynched” by the media and compared the embattled pastor to Jesus.

Otis Moss III, lauded this week by Obama as a “wonderful young pastor,” also recently refused to deny claims by Wright that the U.S. government was involved in distributing illegal drugs to minorities or spreading the AIDS virus to blacks.

But wasn’t it the rookie senators who implied that he would have left Trinity over Wright’s strong beliefs about AIDS being invented by the US government to target certain groups and his insensitive remarks about the terrorists coming home to roost among others if the pastor hadn’t retired. On CNN, Obama gave the following answer:

“Had the reverend not retired and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn’t have felt comfortable staying there at the church,” the senator said.

But certainly, this same policy holds for Trinity’s new minister? Senator Obama is that true?

It seems informative to ask why did Obama join Trinity in the first place. For that answer, we can look at a blog entry at “Top of the Ticket” today in the LA Times. Gateway Pundit has a link to this, but I wanted to provide a brief quote:

Why Oprah quit Jeremiah Wright’s church and Barack Obama didn’t

Early in the 1980s rising television star Oprah Winfrey was looking for a local church in Chicago. Not surprisingly, she like many blacks including four years later a community organizer named Barack Obama, was attracted to Trinity United Church of Christ and its dynamic, outspoken pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

That South Side church was THE place for upwardly mobile Windy City blacks to connect and it had an aggressive community ouDaytime TV diva Oprah Winfrey’s support of Illinois Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle turns out to have cost her perhaps more than she helped him. Winfrey abandoned the Trinity United Church of Christ run by the controversial pastor Rev Jeremiah Wright over concern for his inflammatory sermons while Obama remainedtreach program. And attendance continued Winfrey’s childhood connection with black churches and their shared sense of community and support.

As The Ticket noted Sunday morning, the same reasons caused other black clergy to steer the young Obama there, saying he’d have more luck connecting with black churches in his urban organizing efforts if he actually belonged to one himself. Obama’s friends later added that alighting at Trinity with its forceful male leader was also part of the mixed-race Obama’s exploration of his black identity in the absence of his father.

It’s an insightful article that looks at for the reasons why Obama sought out Trinity, entrance into the political world of Chicago, and why unlike Oprah Winfrey he chose to stay. We still must ask why did Obama only choose to denounce Wright when it was politically required and not earlier like when he decided to not have him appear at his campaign kickoff announcement.