An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
A Week Late
I got an email in reference to this post, which sadly, I didn’t see until today. Yes, sometimes I forget I have about a gazillion emails addresses and fail to check them all. Mr Graham was kind enough to send me the text of the news piece, and I missed. Sorry ’bout that!
I’m posting here, and now, cuz well, it’s my blog, and I can! 
Obama’s Former Pastor Calls TCU A Godless College
Reporting
Jay Gormley
FORT WORTH (CBS 11 News) ? Senator Barack Obama’s former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, spent a good part of his weekend in Dallas. His visit included two sermons Sunday morning at Friendship-West Baptist Church.
In the middle of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s sermon on domestic violence, he appeared to take a pot shot at Texas Christian University. He slipped it in while preaching about the evils of rape.
Here’s the statement in its entirety: “Rape takes place not just on dates, not just in Gibeah in the text (Bible), and not just in college… Texas Christian University - godless Christian college. Rape also takes place in marriage.”
While TCU declined to comment, some students on campus were outraged.
“To call people godless is so ignorant,” said TCU sophomore Peter Todd. “How can you call people godless if you don’t know them? Blanketing TCU as a godless Christian university is absolutely ridiculous.”
“If he wants to take a pot shot at us, we’re not going to stoop to his level,” said TCU sophomore Max Rabkin. “We pride ourselves on being an ethical school and a school of morals, and so we’ll take the higher ground.”
The jab at TCU may have been in response to the university’s decision to move an event by Brite Divintiy School off campus.
“He’s upset that Brite Divinity School and TCU didn’t support everything that he said,” said TCU sophomore Tory McGee. “It’s a decision that TCU made and it doesn’t represent the students here.”
Rev. Wright was to be honored in late March by the school. Once the event was moved off campus, Rev. Wright eventually cancelled his visit to North Texas.
Well, there you have it, B’s classless “former pastor”.
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Very interesting indeed! It’s good that your friend had a copy of the article to send via e-mail because the Dallas CBS affiliate pulled the story almost immediatly and copies couldn’t be found on the web. Read more about it here:
Dallas CBS Affiliate Buries Negative Jeremiah Wright News
http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2008/04/dallas-cbs-affiliate-buries-negative.html
@Faultline USA:
I really wish I had found it last week.