Obama Leaving Trinity

Erick Erickson at Redstate.com blogs that CNN is reporting Senator Obama will be giving up his membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ. Trinity, of course, is the church formerly helmed by Jeremiah Wright, the controversial pastor of YouTube.com fame who preached that the U.S. Government was distributing AIDS as part of a secret American genocide.

No doubt the most recent flare-up featuring a fired-up Father Pfleger was the final straw. Even Obama, who is handled rather delicately in the press, would have trouble explaining continued membership in the church when they're practically burning his fellow Democrat candidate at the stake during Sunday services.

It probably won't end the controversy over his church, but it's a belatedly smart move for the campaign. He can't undo twenty years in the pew, but it would be politically moronic to continue to leave himself open to new Trinity controversies.