As many of you know, CNN will be launching its series "Black in America" on 23 July with its Black Women and Familes program. The second day will focus on Black men.

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Over at Bilerico, they've posted a clip from a recent speech by Barack Obama, on separation of church and state. Obama gets it absolutely right--with examples!

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A Texas appeals court ruled unanimously that the state of Texas overstepped its bounds by seizing 468 children from the "polygamist compound" of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints. The court was right: Texas Family and Protective services overstepped their bounds.

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Reverend Wright is never going to disappear. He's found a national pulpit and he's reveling in his notoriety and isn't going to step away lightly.

In case you missed it, here's the good reverend at the National Press Club this past Monday.

Part 1

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As I sit here, I find something eerily similar between the Clinton campaign and what can now only be called the Reverend Wright campaign. Both seem to operate from the view that if they don't get what they want, they get to ruin it for the other guy.

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Oh, my-my. Poor deluded Oprah. She's run afoul of the Christian Right, who believes that she's set herself up as her own "church" teaching things like

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I'm still following the situation in Texas with the Fundamentalist LDS cult...er, church--no, cult! So is Ed Brayton of Dispatches from the Culture Wars:

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You know how offended Religious Right spokespersons (okay, mostly spokesMEN) get when someone accuses them of wanting to make America into a theocratic nation? Such statements, they tell us, are just evidence of a liberal bias against good religious folks.

 How then to explain this quote from Gary North, a prominent spokesman for the Christian Right?

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(Deep breath)

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While John McCain sits quietly back in Memphis, no doubt swaying and clapping to the strains of some Black gospel choir in Memphis, saying little about PastorGate (Reverend Wright and Barack Obama), I think it's important to listen to Reverend Haggee, John McCain's Reverend Wright.

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I heard this story on NPR this morning, and thinking that the essence of the story was about censorship, I tracked it to learn more.

Offensive Video Raises Questions About Censorship -

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I'm perplexed.

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I tried to catch this several times in the last few days, but came in just as Jon finished his opening monologue. Found it. Here it is.

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Rush Limbaugh continues to excoriate Barack Obama (it's his raison d'etre. You can read the text of his chat (I had to turn it off: I couldn't listen anymore):

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I was driving home last night, flipping through my Sirius radio (I'd had enough of Finger Eleven, the Clash, Talking Heads and, uh, Justin Timberlake--don't hate). Thinking I was in the talk radio segment, I was surprised to hear a Black pastor's voice booming from my radio.

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