TCU retreats from campus to honor Rev. Wright

AP/Houston Chronicle:

An event at which presidential candidate Barack Obama's controversial longtime pastor is set to honored will be moved off Texas Christian University's campus for security reasons, the school said Wednesday.

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is to be honored March 29 at the Brite Divinity School's Black Church Summit and Awards Banquet. The divinity school is located on TCU's campus, but is a separate school with its own officers and board.

Earlier this week, TCU issued a statement saying it opposed the divinity school's decision to honor Wright in light of video that shows Wright delivering racially tinged sermons and railing against the United States.

TCU said in a statement on its Web site Wednesday that the executive committee of TCU's Board of Trustees voted Wednesday to move the Brite Divinity School's Black Church Summit events off campus. TCU says that the divinity school agreed to the move.

The decision was made in light of security concerns from campus and Fort Worth police, TCU said.

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I do not find the statement that it was moved for security reasons credible. I have been following the controversy surrounding Wright closely and I have seen nothing even remotely implying a security threat to this bigot. There has bee criticism of his allegiance to black liberation theology as there should be but I have not seen or heard of one threat.

I suspect that the threat TCU is concerned about is from donors who would not want to support Wrights racist and ignorant views. Anyone who claims that the US invented aids to kill blacks is not worthy of honor. Any minister who wants to damn America is not worthy of honor. TCU should quit enabling this hateful ideology. Obama has had the decency to distance himself from what this man has been preaching and TCU should do the same.

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