Oh really, Barack?

Anyone who saw Obama's supposedly magnificent speech on race and what not probably remembers this attempt to contextualize Rev. Wright's bigotry.

Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely – just as I’m sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests, or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed.

Of course I never heard anything controversial from any minister of any church I attended, and I doubt John McCain did either. Reuters did an article on Dan Yeary, McCain's minister today.

The 69-year-old Yeary adheres to the Southern Baptist belief that gay marriage and homosexual relations go against Biblical scripture, hot-button issues for many in the United States.

"The Bible is pretty clear about it, in my opinion it specifically calls it a sin. I also am a sinner and you are a sinner. ... Did Jesus Christ love homosexuals? I'm sure he did," Yeary said.

For something he is theologically opposed to, this isn't nearly as strongly bigoted language as "God damn America." Granted, knowing he is doing an interview with Reuters, he is going to curb his tongue, but I doubt Rev. Wright would be this restrained.