Ethics

Balko on Obama's Pastor

By Ed Brayton

I agree with Balko's take on the controversy over Obama's pastor and the screaming about his controversial statements from the right:

Do we really need to start digging up all the nutty things Christian right pastors have said in sermons over the last 20 years? I seem to remember Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell & Co. blaming 9/11, Katrina, and all sorts of other calamities on the gays, the womyns, and Grand Theft Auto. And yet GOP politicos still pilgrimage to the doorsteps of these idiots to seek their blessing. There are plenty of things for which one could criticize Obama. That his pastor says things rational people find silly only puts him on par with 90 percent of the rest of Congress.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 18, 2008 (boomark / email).