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Does Hillary have her own preacher problem?
Posted By katie allison granju
Barbara Ehrenreich says she does:
There’s a reason why Hillary Clinton has remained relatively silent during the flap over intemperate remarks by Barack Obama’s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. When it comes to unsavory religious affiliations, she’s a lot more vulnerable than Obama.
You can find all about it in a widely under-read article in the September 2007 issue of Mother Jones, in which Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet reported that “through all of her years in Washington, Clinton has been an active participant in conservative Bible study and prayer circles that are part of a secretive Capitol Hill group known as the “Fellowship,” aka the Family. But it won’t be a secret much longer. Jeff Sharlet’s shocking exposé, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power will be published in May.
I guess I’ll have to wait for the “shocking expose,” because the rest of Ehrenreich’s case against this group with which Clinton is apparently affiliated is pretty weak. It sounds like a fairly standard, non-denominational, very conservative Christian prayer group. And frankly, that’s an association that could only help Clinton among most Americans, not hurt her.
Mar 20th, 2008
