[Newsweek]Newsweek Magazine is reporting in its current issue that Oprah Winfrey left the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church over a decade go due to her concerns about Wright’s radical views.
Winfrey was a member of Trinity United from 1984 to 1986, and she continued to attend off and on into the early to the mid-1990s. But then she stopped. A major reason— the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
“According to two sources, Winfrey was never comfortable with the tone of Wright's more incendiary sermons, which she knew had the power to damage her standing as America's favorite daytime talk-show host. "Oprah is a businesswoman, first and foremost," said one longtime friend, who requested anonymity when discussing Winfrey's personal sentiments. "She's always been aware that her audience is very mainstream, and doing anything to offend them just wouldn't be smart. She's been around black churches all her life, so Reverend Wright's anger-filled message didn't surprise her. But it just wasn't what she was looking for in a church." Oprah's decision to distance herself came as a surprise to Wright, who told Christianity Today in 2002 that when he would "run into her socially … she would say, 'Here's my pastor!' "”
This report raises the question: If Oprah could see trouble ahead by continuing to attend Wright’s church, why didn’t Obama?
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