Rev. Wright Discusses

 ‘Public Crucifixion’ at

Sunday Services

by Associated Press

Sunday, April 27, 2008 

DALLAS — The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the embattled pastor of presidential candidate Barack Obama, gave a 45-minute sermon on Sunday that included a reference to his “public crucifixion” for past comments from the pulpit.

Wright received a standing ovation from the 4,000 worshippers at Friendship-West Baptist Church, The Dallas Morning News reported on its Web site.

During the first of two Sunday sermons he was expected to deliver, Wright wove a gospel message with commentary about social justice. He told the congregation to lean on God and stand up for themselves.

Security was tight, and no media cameras were allowed inside the church, the newspaper reported.

Later,  Wright was to follow in the footsteps of Obama, President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton with a scheduled address to the Detroit NAACP’s annual Freedom Fund dinner Sunday evening.

Local leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said interest was strong in the event because of the address by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. They said 10,000 people were expected to attend the $150-a-plate event.

Wright became an issue in the presidential race in March after the circulation of videos of old sermons in which he accused the U.S. government of racism and accused it of flooding black neighborhoods with drugs.

In a sermon days after the Sept. 11 attacks, Wright said “America’s chickens are coming home to roost” after it dropped atomic bombs on Japan and “supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans.”

The videos, circulated widely on television and the Internet, knocked Sen. Obama’s campaign off-stride. The Illinois Democrat distanced himself from the comments of Wright, whom he has known for 20 years.

Wright, who is leaving Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, claimed that the videos were old snippets that were taken out of context.

In an interview aired Friday on PBS, Wright said publicizing portions of old sermons was unfair and “made me the target of hatred.” He said he had received death threats.

Wright preached earlier this month at a Virginia church and was scheduled to speak Monday at the National Press Club in Washington. He was invited to Friendship-West to honor the Rev. Freddie Haynes, the church’s senior pastor.

“We’re going to hear the whole sermon,” Haynes had promised his congregation. “Not just the clips in order to feed a right-wing agenda.”

Lee ADDS: Just exactly how does one take the words, “God damn America,” out of context? The question is whether Wright uses that excuse after hearing Obama voice it time after time himself!

Now the NAACP endorses such statements thereby naming themselves a RACIST Association. How many other groups will join in with their words that mean to inflame the hearts of men rather than edify God’s Word?

I think that God has removed Wright for a reason and he, Wright, is now by continuing his rants,  denying God’s Supreme Authority!