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“Tough Dove” — and Obama supporter — Gidon Remba on quittin’ or stickin’ with your pastor:

In an ideal world, I wish Barack Obama had never joined Rev. Wright’s church, or quit once he realized that his opinions were sometimes objectionable. But Obama’s account of the complex weave of the relationship between congregant and pastor reveals his situation to have been far more fraught than ours.

Remba writes that he quit a Chicago synagogue “within months of joining” after the rabbi urged the slaughter of “Palestinians” in the wake of a terrorist attack. The difference between him and Obama: “we had no history, no prior powerful or intimate personal or familial bond with our religious leader before the moment of moral outrage.”