Sen. Barack Obama’s pastor says blacks should not sing “God Bless America” but “God damn America.”

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s pastor for the last 20 years at the Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago’s south side, has a long history of what even Obama’s campaign aides concede is “inflammatory rhetoric,” including the assertion that the United States brought on the 9/11 attacks with its own “terrorism.”

In a campaign appearance earlier this month, Sen. Obama said, “I don’t think my church is actually particularly controversial.” He said Rev. Wright “is like an old uncle who says things I don’t always agree with,” telling a Jewish group that everyone has someone like that in their family.

Rev. Wright married Obama and his wife Michelle, baptized their two daughters and is credited by Obama for the title of his book, “The Audacity of Hope.”

Lee ADDS: It is a sad, sad day when a ’supposed’ man of God lowers himself to the depths that Rev. Wright has. He has accomplished one thing as he has VERIFIED what I knew all along. Obama is RELYING on the Black vote and that is a travesty. The ‘CHANGE’ Obama says he will accomplish is nothing more than setting race relations back 100 years or so!

As a Pastor I have a duty to PREACH the WORD of God in a TRUTHFUL manner and to NOT USE my position as a means to proffer my ideologies on anyone. The pulpit IS NOT a place for PHILOSOPHY as IT IS a place to set forth God’s Good News. Also, there is NEVER a REASON to say ‘God Damn” anyone or anything! To voice that phrase is to set ones self as a judge and that is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!