Posted by
vonryansexpress on Monday, April 27, 2009 2:06:13 PM
In the 100 days of President Obama’s residency at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the President and his immediate family have not regularly attended church service? Is this possible?
The public is told the Obama’s are looking for a place to worship. Is this truthful? Is it likely, that a man with two children and a Grandmother in residence cannot find in the greater Washington ‘metropole’ a proper and vital ingredient for his Christian family?
Or is it, that for Mr. Obama, his long association with the Chicago Church of Rev. Wright was the defining and irreplaceable ‘faith’ community of the President and Mrs. Obama’s life. Why cannot this President attend a different church every week in Washington? Would that not be an ecumenical statement for the President? A statement that would be flush with the President’s message of inclusion? What is it about the practice of communal faith for Mr. Obama that requires it to be in the scorched earth church of Rev. Wright but not in any other as the new President?
Now, truth be announced, a President and his wife do not need to be faith practitioners in our political scheme. If the Obama’s want to renounce church attendance for themselves and their daughters as some Jacobin statement, then they are entitled to do so. The public is entitled to know however as their profession of faith itself has not been renounced by the Obama’s and to the contrary, they have for purposes of election, styled themselves as Christians.
So, I call on the President and Mrs. Obama to take their children to any and all churches in the Washington area. Go Lutheran one Sunday, Methodist the next, and Four Square after that. Attended Baptist Churches, Catholic Mass, and even Jewish Temple and Moslem prayer on occasion but get out in the public and be seen in service. Otherwise, be known as the couple that long for the assembly at Jeremiah Wright’s and be sincere about it.