Obama's New Pastor Decries 'Lynching'

Chicago (Fox News) ~ The controversy surrounding Barack Obama’s former pastor has served only as a rallying cry for the 8,000-member Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, as the church’s new pastor decried the media frenzy as a modern-day lynching that resembles Jesus’ death at the hands of the Romans.

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The Rev. Otis Moss III never mentioned the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. by name, but his predecessor was the underpinning of his first Easter sermon on Sunday.

He implied to the congregation that Wright, who has delivered sermons in which he likened the U.S. to the Ku Klux Klan and said it is damned for its state-sponsored terrorism, is facing the same challenges Jesus did.

“No one should start a ministry with lynching, no one should end their ministry with lynching,” he said. “The lynching was national news. The RNN, the Roman News Network, was reporting it and NPR, National Publican Radio had it on the radio. The Jerusalem Post and the Palestine Times all wanted exclusives, they searched out the young ministers, showed up unannounced at their houses, tried to talk with their families, called up their friends, wanted to get a quote on how do you feel about the lynching?” he said.

The Sunday services made clear that the criticism surrounding Wright has not softened the church’s sermons, as the pastors defiantly defended their method of worship.

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