Opinion: For Barack Obama, the latest church furor proves enough

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Barack Obama is in the market for a new church.

Earlier this afternoon -- probably not coincidentally on the weekend and at a time when most of the political press was focused on the Democratic Party’s rules committee meeting in Washington -- word surfaced and his campaign confirmed that Obama would no longer be a parishioner at Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago’s South Side.

As the Chicago Tribune’s John McCormick writes, the church was Obama’s ‘longtime religious home,’ but it had emerged as ‘a place that has triggered repeated controversies during his presidential bid.’

The first were sparked by the church’s former pastor -- once a close Obama associate -- the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr . The latest uproar was sparked by Catholic priest Michael Pfleger, who, in a guest sermon last Sunday, egregiously mocked Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The rest of McCormick’s report can be read here.

-- Don Frederick