THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST SEES OBAMA AS A GODSEND

According to this article in the March 15, 2008 edition of the Washington Post:

CLEVELAND -- For the United Church of Christ, a graying, Cleveland-based denomination that has lost more than 40 percent of its members since the 1960s, Sen. Barack Obama is a godsend.

Church leaders expect more people to come knocking on UCC doors as their most widely known member raises awareness of the denomination through his Democratic presidential campaign.

Some church officials consider him a walking billboard for a denominational advertising campaign welcoming believers of all races, ages and sexual orientations....

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The attention Obama brings to the UCC is almost all positive, experts on religion and politics say, because they share similar political views and Obama's message of inclusion fits with the denomination's advertising campaign.

And the UCC denomination is not much concerned about Jeremiah Wright's racist, America-hating diatribes either:

So far, few church leaders seem fazed by criticism directed at remarks by the minister of Obama's home church, Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.

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...[Church president] Thomas praised Trinity as "a great gift to our wider church family and to its own community in Chicago."...

Obama and his church are resurrecting racial hatred in America. Furthermore, before it's all over, Christianity will be besmirched in general.

Even if Obama is not on the ticket or elected, he's doing plenty of damage to America right now.