A few mintes ago I received as nasty a political e-mail as I've ever seen, slurring Obama for his church affiliation. I copied all the addresses that had passed it on, and dropped them this:

                   I am sending this to all of those who have already received and forwarded the e- mail which I just received regarding Senator Barak Obama and his church affiliation, and to others who will very likely receive it soon. The quote below largely sums up that letter.




"if you look more closely at Trinity United Church of Christ, Obama's church, it sounds more like a racist cult than anything else"

I find it interesting, to say the least, that someone would say this about a church which forthrightly states that it is commited to preaching salvation in Christ. The church is staffed by highly educated people with credentials from a whole spectrun of mainstream universities, seminaries, and schools of divinity. It's ministries include involvement with such subversive, extremist organizations as Girl Scouts.

To imply from his membership in the church that Senator Obama is not a loyal American, or is a dangerous extremist, is the basest sort of political smear. It is absurd, and totally un-Christian.   

If you are about to make any assumptions about me, or my background, I will spare you some of the effort. I'm from a Minnesota farm, I'm a veteran of the U.S. Navy, I graduated from North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, and the extremist groups to which I belong or owe loyalty are the United Methodist Church and the Lapeer Art Association.

                         D. Dean Elkins, Lapeer Michigan

It may not do any good, but it FELT good.   Dean