Stuck On Stupid

Presidential candidate Barack Obama courts the Christian voter but if his church’s website is any indication of Barack’s faith, Christians should run screaming from his candidacy. If you visit the Trinity United Church of Christ’s website located at http://www.tucc.org/ you will be welcomed by a logo of the church that is emblazoned over the motherland of Africa. The pastor of this church, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, says its doctrine reflects black liberation theology, which views the Bible in part as a record of the struggles of “people of color” against oppression. I view this churches website as racist and if it was a white church, let’s say Mitt Romneys’ church, it would be the front page headline from now to election day. Let’s just look at the “About Us” statement from the website:

We are a congregation which is Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian… Our roots in the Black religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are an African people, and remain “true to our native land,” the mother continent, the cradle of civilization. God has superintended our pilgrimage through the days of slavery, the days of segregation, and the long night of racism. It is God who gives us the strength and courage to continuously address injustice as a people, and as a congregation. We constantly affirm our trust in God through cultural expression of a Black worship service and ministries which address the Black Community.

Now imagine if this paragraph was changed and posted on a Mormon website:

We are a congregation which is Unashamedly White and Unapologetically Christian… Our roots in the White religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are a White people, and remain “true to our native land,” the mother of all civilized societies. God has superintended our pilgrimage through the days of ridicule from the Christian church, the days of being reviled and persecuted, and the long journey that forced our pilgrimage to the west. It is God who gives us the strength and courage to continuously address injustice as a people, and as a congregation. We constantly affirm our trust in God through cultural expression of a White worship service and ministries which address the White Community.

The only difference here is that this would never be posted on a Mormon website in this day and age. But if it was posted, the outcry would be deafening. So why the silence on Barack Obama’s church I ask?