In a January 11 entry on the blog NewsBusters, Media Research Center director of communications Seton Motley questioned Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) allegiance to the United States, and suggested that a "prohibition on the Presidency ... could reasonably be extended to Obama." Motley claimed that Obama's membership in Trinity United Church of Christ, which is predominantly African-American, "seems to stand in diametric opposition to ... the oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States."
Noting that Trinity United professes to "remain 'true to our native land,' " Motley wrote: "Our prohibition on the Presidency for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has chosen fidelity to the United States but whose loyalties are called into question merely by the matter of his place of birth, could reasonably be extended to Obama, who had the good fortune to be born in America, but who chooses to pledge allegiance elsewhere as an article of faith."
Motley also claimed that Trinity "is certainly not shy about expressing its immense pride in something over which they had no control; that being its assemblage's skin color," adding: "It revels in it, and from all appearances it is race, rather than God and His worship, for and about which this congregation has been convened." Motley also wrote that "Obama's house of worship's racial deficiencies exist in the here and now, and remain heretofore unexamined." Noting that Trinity United describes itself as "Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian," Motley wrote: "Please note that 'Black' comes before 'Christian'."
As Media Matters for America has documented, on the December 7, 2007, edition of Fox News' Hanity & Colmes, co-host Sean Hannity falsely called Obama's church "segregated." In fact, according to an April 2, 2007, article on the website of the University of Chicago Divinity School's The Martin Marty Center -- an institute for the advanced study of religion -- professor emeritus Martin E. Marty wrote of Trinity: "for Trinity, being 'unashamedly black' does not mean being 'anti-white.' My wife and I on occasion attend, and, like all other non-blacks, are enthusiastically welcomed."
NewsBusters, operated by the conservative Media Research Center, describes itself as offering "immediate exposure of liberal media bias, insightful analysis, constructive criticism and timely corrections to news media reporting."......
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