What he ended up saying was many, many things, both about Reverend Wright, about the Trinity United Church of Christ, but also about the sense of race, and anger, and the flawed and beautiful institutions by which we have to try to heal generations of wounds in this country.
Mr Obama has been a member of his Trinity United Church of Christ for 20 years.
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Wright is a retired pastor from the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois, where Obama worships.
Attempts to soften or delay the resolution were defeated and the United Church of Christ voted overwhelmingly to sanction gay marriages.
Those against the amendment include a coalition of reformed Jews, some Protestant factions, Sikhs, Quakers, the United Church of Christ, and Unitarians.
Paul United Church of Christ in Cibolo, Texas, says the vote shows that the leadership does not speak for the entire church.
But for Byron Buffalo, lay minister at the United Church of Christ in Bridger, South Dakota, the designation was a call to arms.
However, club and independent leagues have busted down the blue laws over the years (much to the chagrin of my United Church of Christ pastor).
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Mr. STEVE GRAY (Indiana-Kentucky Conference, United Church of Christ): The cost will be a loss of churches and members and income and revenue and morale.
The United Church of Christ voted today to endorse gay marriage.
Obama belongs to the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
There is no doubt that a lot of Americans are angry and confused by Obama staying at Trinity United Church of Christ and not disowning his pastor.
When I suggested to my church that it sponsor youth sports, I thought it might help get more people to services at Pilgrim Faith United Church of Christ in Oak Lawn, Ill.
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For the first time, fewer than 50% (48%, in fact) of adults identified as Protestant, and those numbers are going down both in traditional mainline denominations, such as my United Church of Christ, and evangelical churches.
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The United Church of Christ is believed to have ordained the first gay minister in the US 33 years ago, and for many of those gathered for the general synod in Atlanta, Georgia, the vote was, if anything, overdue.
And I confess that if all that I knew of Reverend Wright were the snippets of those sermons that have run in an endless loop on the television sets and YouTube, or if Trinity United Church of Christ conformed to the caricatures being peddled by some commentators, there is no doubt that I would react in much the same way.
And the "Courthouse" (based on the Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse in Foley Square), mounted on a stand that ratchets like a railroad or traffic barrier to suggest that access to justice is often barred, sits directly in front of the Christ Church United Methodist.
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