Barack Bails

Victimhood dies hard.

“I’m not denouncing the church and I’m not interested in people who want me to denounce the church,” he said, adding that the new pastor at Trinity and “the church have been suffering from the attention my campaign has focused on them.”

Will the suffering ever end?

This isn't one of those 'as far as the East is from the West' moments, for the only thing being changed here is the Sunday morning geography where Obama and family will be receiving their words of inspiration. Obama is, if anything, rejecting the church in the softest of terms--terms that point blame at the media attention he accidentally focused upon it, rather than terms that blame the bat shit crazy rantings routinely emanating from behind the pulpit.

The sermons and doctrine of Trinity Church have been beamed worldwide in free evangelism of the sort that slimy Jimmy Swaggart would have gladly spent millions to achieve--shouted to the rest of the world on the broadcast feed of every major network and news outlet on the planet.

By some accounts, including Obama's and Trinity’s Rev. Otis Moss, this makes the church a victim. Their doctrine is simply receiving too much attention.

A lament, I would guess, that Christ used with rare frequency.