Despite trying to divert attention from Snipergate, Rambo Rodham doesn't seem to have one important man in lock step:
The current senior minister of their 90s church:
http://www.foundryumc.org/...
in a public statement on March 19, Dean Snyder - who since 2002 is the senior minister of the church Hillary and Bill attended during their alleged co-presidency - wrote:
He also spoke positively of Wright briefly during his Easter Sermon.
An interesting passage from that sermon: Snyder, despite being white, led what you could call a 'black church' in the 80s
I was the pastor of a primarily African-American congregation for several years in the 1980’s. When I say primarily African-American I mean all but two people in the congregation were African-American. One of the two who was not African-American was married to me.
An early version of this diary indicated that Snyder was their former pastor. I had misread the description of him from another website which read: 'The senior pastor from the church that Bill Clinton & Hillary Clinton attended while Bill was president, put out a statement defending Wright' as something more. Again, to be clear: Snyder is/was not the Clintons pastor in that era. Perhaps he had a presence there in that time however I have nothing to support such a statement.
In other words, I 'miswrote' and welcome your catcalls and boos.
Snyder is a progressive pastor whose church recognizes same sex marriages. His profile can be read here
edit: was also diaried (i missed it before) here
also see the Huffington Post article
On a personal note, I take umbrage with Clinton's assertion that you 'choose your church' - it's not that black and white to me:
I'm a former churchgoer, currently an atheist. I notice there are many people out there who are still confused at how Obama stayed at a church with a minister such as Wright. Besides the fact that for the most part, Wright is actually a decent open minded pastor:
There's the story of my mother, who stayed at a church with a minister she outright hated. The moderately benign Anglican Church was led by a kindly old man who retired, only to be replaced by two ministers, one male one female. They had nowhere near the depth or charisma as the man they replaced, did weird kooky sermons and a different set of rituals, changed the music from moaning hymns to typically bad modern Christian music, and had views that while not offensive, where certainly not those of my mother. Many people left the church. My mother didn't. An older woman who sat with my mom in the pews was essentially her second mother. Her actual mother is a Baptist, lives 1000 miles away and hates gay people. (Oops, did I just throw my grandmother under the bus?) The woman and her war hero husband sat with her week after week, not enjoying the church so much as each other's company. I'm not sure they strengthened each others faith, but they made each other better people. They grew extremely close, and I grew close with them by association - they came to our house every year for Thanksgiving. My mother has since moved away, and the older woman now has cancer, but their bond remains tight, and when she can, my mother visits and cares for her for extended periods of time.
All because of church. Because of the congregation. Right now Otis Moss has taken over Obama's church. If Obama disagrees with that minister, should he leave? Would it be so bad to justify staying at Trinity based on friendships and the community built?
So take it from the heathen: Sometimes its not the pastor you need to ask about. Ask as well about the close personal relationships and what the church does for the community. Its the good things churches do that allow many of them to get away with what many of us would consider bigoted opinions.