Frank Schaeffer offers a different perspective

When I wrote a story in The Washington Times that appeared in last Friday's edition, about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, I expected a response by the media to follow and analyze it. But what I didn't expect was to have politicians and pundits attempt to dissect the body of free and religious speech, cut and tie off a vein, and try to connect it to Sen. Barack Obama.\ \ \ There have actually been people out there calling for Mr. Obama to leave his church if he doesn't agree with his preacher. A man's church is like his home, his spiritual home, and no one has the right to tell him to leave it.\ \ \ I can't editorialize and write a column here, but I can point out there are others who have talked about this in a responsible way.\ \ \ One of those people is Frank Schaeffer, son of Francis Schaeffer, the Presbyterian minister who sparked the Religious Right movement in America.\ \ \ The younger Schaeffer has written about his own perspective on Mr. Obama's preacher.\ \ \ Take it from him.\ \ \ — Brian DeBose, national and political reporter, The Washington Times