Here’s something important to think about: Recently there has been some talk going around about Barack Obama and his church, which he released the name of after being questioned about his Muslim faith. Obama’s church, Trinity United Church of Christ, is founded on a “non-negotiable COMMITMENT TO AFRICA, and all members are “committed to the HISTORICAL EDUCATION OF AFRICAN PEOPLE IN DIASPORA” (Diaspora refers to any people or ethnic population who are forced or induced to leave their traditional homelands). A February 6 Chicago Tribune article reported that “conservative critics have seized on Trinity’s 12-point Black Value System, especially the portion relating to ‘middleclassness,’ as evidence that Obama is a divisive candidate who rejects mainstream American values and is primarily focused on the black community.” Carlson pointed to the “disavowal of the pursuit of ‘middleclassness’ ” in the church’s tenets, calling the church’s mission a “racially exclusive theology” and “a theology that ministers to one group of people, based on race.” Carlson claimed that Trinity’s theology is “racially exclusive” and “wrong,” adding that “it’s hard to call that Christianity.”

Obama is running for the President of the United States, yet no where on the church’s website is America even mentioned. Obama, and his financial partner Oprah, seem to be focused on the well-being of the people of Africa, not America. Obama refuses to say the Pledge of Allegiance, wear an American flag pin (like the rest of the candidates), etc. Our children’s future is at stake. I’m not against change, but our country was founded on some basic principles that need to remain in place (i.e. as evidenced in the Pledge of Allegiance). Our country needs a President that loves the American people as well as America itself. Obama claims to be someone that cares for all people, yet his devotion to an obviously racist church seems to say otherwise.

Church Website: www.tucc.org/about.htm

Article mentioned above: http://mediamatters.org/items/200702090009