In the words of Rev. C. Welton Gaddy - "No candidate for the presidency should ever have to resign from or join a particular house of worship in order to be a viable candidate for that high office,'' "This is a sad day in American politics and even sadder in American religion. Sen. Obama is at the center of the storm, but all who wed religion to partisan politics share responsibility for this tragic development."

Barack Obama has come under so much scrutiny over the time of his campaign over remarks made by preachers in the pulpit that it nearly took his campaign off track. He has had to deal with the hardship of being identified by another man's opinion while he is in the pulpit, though he doesn't share those same opinions.

No one has ever heard this senator speak racially charged or divisive words yet because if they have, surely they would have come forth. Not only that, not one person yet has proven Obama to be a racist or anything close to that for that matter. If in fact Obama himself has streamed those words from his lips, there may have been an issue, but maybe the media took this too far.

The good thing for Obama is this - he can leave the church building, the location and where it is he worships, but as far as leaving the church, which is the entire body of Christian worshippers around the world, he has not done and is still a member. He just changed locations. Now who is to say that the next preacher won't have an opinion to verbalize? No one knows, but one can be certain that with or without the verabalization, every individual, preacher or not, has an opinion about life. If it should come from the pulpit - well, only if it lines up with the Word of God.