More questions have been raised about the judgment of Barack Obama and his decision to remain associated with Trinity UCC. After all, how can we trust the judgment of any man who would stay a part of an organization propagating these ideas?

en. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) recently said his relationship with his long-time pastor and friend Rev. Jeremiah Wright "changed" after what Obama called the clergyman's "divisive and destructive" remarks at the National Press Club. Later, however, Obama stressed his loyalty to the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, where he has been a member for many years.

Articles published in the Trinity United Church of Christ bulletin in 2007 carried controversial comments written by people other than Jeremiah Wright. Those comments included the claim that Israel worked with South Africa to build an "ethnic bomb" that would kill blacks and Arabs, that the Pentagon was training Latin Americans to be terrorists, and that the TV networks are run by right-wing racists.

On Sunday, May 4, Obama told NBC's Tim Russert, on "Meet the Press," that he was still a member of Trinity United Church of Christ and said of the Wright controversy, "I think that the American people understand that when I joined Trinity United Church of Christ, I was committing not to Pastor Wright. I was committing to a church and I was committing to Christ. And it is a wonderful church."

Yeah, this wonderful church – at which leaders spew forth racist venom from the pulpit and bigoted bile in the church bulletin.

Examples include the publication of the following:

• Rev. Reginald Williams, the associate pastor for social justice at Trinity United, published a piece in the bulletin stating that the words of Don Imus were indicative of the fact that "the major networks are run by right-winged conservatives who still see black people as subhuman and portray black people as such."
  
• Williams, in another piece, argued that the training of Latin American soldiers by the United States constituted the training of terrorists.
  
• Published apiece by an advisor to leaders of the anti-white, anti-Semitic Nation of Islam, Elijah Muhammad and Louis Farrakhan, which accused Israel of working on an “ethnic bomb” that would kill only blacks and Arabs.

So, in light of these published statements of hate-filled racism, anti-Americanism, and anti-Semitism, does the claim that Wright’s outrageous statements constituted something new and unusual really ring true? Does the claim that his statements were unrepresentative of Trinity UCC as a whole seem plausible any more? And does the argument that he was “committing to a church” and “committing to Christ” really hold up to scrutiny when his “wonderful church” consistently supported the most outrageous of ideologies from the pulpit and in official publications?

At a minimum, these latest revelations ought to raise questions about Barack Obama’s truthfulness and his judgment, as well as the sort of beliefs he would carry with him into the White House. Can America really afford to take a chance on such a man?

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