Posted by
Billy on Monday, December 28, 2009 1:30:31 PM
There's one common Christmas practice not on the First Family's schedule: a visit to Christmas Eve church services.
Church, in fact, has been a surprisingly tough issue for the Obamas. They resigned their membership with Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in 2008 after Obama renounced the church's controversial former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.
The Obamas have attended Sunday services in Washington three times this year — once at the predominantly African-American 19th Street Baptist Church, and twice at St. John's Episcopal Church across Lafayette Square from the White House. Asked at Tuesday's White House briefing whether the First Family is still searching for a local church to join, press secretary Robert Gibbs responded: "The President has attended fairly regularly up at Camp David a church that he's comfortable in and has enjoyed attending." (Obama, family didn't attend church service Christmas Eve or Day... )
(Here in America people are free to attend church or not attend church. However this should prove that President Obama looks at things from the secular and cares more about getting the Christian faith out of things. It also doesn't bug me that Obama hasn't found a church but it does concern me that he doesn't seem to be trying that hard to find one. I also feel bad for his kids because children need a faith foundation. Lets keep Obama in our prayers that he would be touched by the God who we honor on December 25th.)