[quote=ijusluvit;260514]The difference here is that the controversial and long-standing Mormon beliefs are what Romney has chosen to embrace. He has complete control about what he believes and has exercised this choice for many years, if not for life. For the period when the President attended Wright's church, it was mainstream and uncontroversial, until Wright realized he had a national audience. It's all well documented that his change to extreme, off-the-wall statements was a sudden and strictly personal choice about which the President had no control. So the President exercised his choice by quitting the church.

Especially because Romney has made his religious choices deliberately, if he is a candidiate the media will roast him unmercifully for that. I frankly consider this a miniscule issue, but it seems there isn't any such thing for presidential candidates these days.[/quote
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While I knew what you said was incorrect, I wanted to make sure at least to document some things for you instead of just saying it was so. I did so much research on our current President during the campaign that I was sure I could find stuff and was easy.

A few things from an ABC article in March of 2008...

"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

Note that it was LONG TERM and not just a recent thing and also note that the immediate response from our President was...oh shucks.

A few other quotes from the article...

"An ABC News review of dozens of Rev. Wright's sermons, offered for sale by the church, found repeated denunciations of the U.S. based on what he described as his reading of the Gospels and the treatment of black Americans."

"Rev. Wright, who announced his retirement last month, has built a large and loyal following at his church with his mesmerizing sermons, mixing traditional spiritual content and his views on contemporary issues.

"I wouldn't call it radical. I call it being black in America," said one congregation member outside the church last Sunday.

"He has impacted the life of Barack Obama so much so that he wants to portray that feeling he got from Rev. Wright onto the country because we all need something positive," said another member of the congregation.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Democr...4443788&page=1


Now, you can make your own assumptions of what is real and what is not, but our President DID spend many many years in this church and with this man. You can say he tossed him aside, but dont you wonder HOW this President of such high ideals could sit there for TWENTY years and consult with him for TWENTY years and then pass him off, as he did, as an "old uncle" and say that he knew nothing as Schultz used to say in the old tv series.

Not only does the church's beliefs send out a warning signal, but how about simply tossing your pastor aside for politics ? Isnt that a bit bothersome. He did this, as memory serves me, with a few comments during the campaign.

The press pushed Romney so hard he had to have a special press conference to reaffirm his faith and how it does not contradict anything.

You pick the quality of man that you would want in the WH !!!!!

From Rev Wright's own website talking about his lifes greatest accomplishments...

"Some have even said that my preaching which produced the first President of the United States of African Descent was my life’s greatest accomplishment. Dr. Gardner Taylor, the Dean of Black Preachers in America, has honored my pulpit work by saying that had it not been for me, Barack Obama would not have discovered what it meant to be a Black Christian man in America. Many consider that to be my life’s greatest accomplishment — especially after the media tried to trash my sermons, my ministry and my 36 years of work in the local church parish setting.

http://jeremiahwright.com/2010/02/my...ccomplishment/

Does this sound like a sudden change in behaviour that our President was not aware of ?