This was a mistake. He's been there for 20 years, why now in the middle of a presidential campaign?

Maybe it's because Trinity is under a microscope and he's trying to take that microscope off of them.

I'd gotten the idea that many of the parishioners were tired of worshiping in a fish bowl and weren't exactly all that excited about having the Obamas continue to go to church there. Now that all of their guest pastors are scrutinized also, I can imagine these feelings were exacerbated. It could be that Barack and Michelle felt it would be uncomfortable to continue to worship there.

While I do not think the decision was a light one, it is clear that certain member of the church were not doing Sen. Obama any favors by continuing to push the envelope.

It's not their job to do Obama favors. It's the United Church of Christ, not the United Church of Obama.

Obama can save his soul in any number of churchces (or without them). His one chance to save the country rests on his ability to get elected. And his one chance to get elected rests on his ability to avoid being tagged as the radical candidate.

Good for Obama. Good for Trinity. But he had to part company.

I agree it will get spun different ways but I am really getting tired of the ministers and preachers jamming up in politics. One of the major and greatest and most important and best of all ideas our founding fathers had was the separation of church and state. I have been thinking about that concept a lot lately. Between the various religous leaders and MSM eating up then spewing forth everything they say this crap needs to stop. What is Obama supposed to do? I don't blame him. It wouldn't matter now who was preaching in any church he went to someone will find something wrong.