I am attaching a post by my oldest son, Adam, who is a UCC Minister in Natick, Ma.  As you can see, Adam rejected my legal profession and became a very thoughtful man of the cloth.  His perspective is relevant to the on-going debate on Rev Wright and Sen Obama.   

Individuals choose their spiritual leaders for many reasons that - shocking as that may be - have nothing to do with politics and, I believe, that deeply personal choice should be respected even should that person seek public office.   The concept that individuals should stay or leave a congregration based on the politics of the Minister is wrong and strikes at the heart of many American values.   Practically speaking, holding elected officials to the political views of their Ministers isn't exactly a grand way to get politicians in the pews!

I received a call yesterday from a dear friend who is a former attorney general.   He said that reading Adam's blog took him back to his childhood when his Minister dad regularly urged his congregation to accept radical views and take steps that were then illegal. They disagreed with him, of course, but they defended him against outside attacks because he had stood with them in thier darkest and brightest times.  He loved them and they loved him.

His dad?

An integrationist, white minister in Mississippi in the 1950's and 1960's.