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Filed under: National News, Politics
Tue. April 29, 2008 3:05:42 PM
Chicago, IL — Continuing to drive a wedge between Barack Obama and the hopeful new America his campaign aims to impart to voters, Rev. Jeremiah Wright further defended comments he made during a YouTube taped Chicago Sermon while speaking before a group of journalists Monday.
Wright addressed the National Press Club in Washington D.C., saying he was unapologetic about comments in which he espoused anti-gay rhetoric and blamed the government for creating HIV.
The Chicago reverend, who democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has been aligned with over the course of his campaign, said that based on the Tuskegee Syphilis experiment, he has reason to believe that HIV is a manufactured disease.
At the press club meeting, Wright further explained that he thinks many of his comments are misunderstood by the general public because of a deep misunderstanding of the Black religious experience.
Rev. Wright's comments caused trouble for the Obama campaign as several minority groups, including the LGBT population, called on the junior senator from Illinois to distance himself from the Trinity United Church of Christ.
Wright isn't the only controversial religious figure to whom Obama has been linked. Earlier this month, Obama was linked to Rev. James T. Meeks, whose anti-gay comments have landed him in hot water with gay activists.
Written By Angela D'Amboise
Article provided in partnership with GayWebMonkey.com.
SoloBronzeville on Friday, 5/9/2008
Angela....get your facts "straight." Wright has never been anti-gay. Under his watch and with his support, Trinity has one of the only same-gender-loving ministries and one of the strongest HIV/AIDS ministries in Chicago's black community. Accurate research will also reveal sermons that support LGBTQ's. How does that compare to most other Christian faith's? Do we see the pope or protestant leaders and their congregations embracing LGBTQ's?