Obama throws his whole church under the bus.

Reverends Otis Moss, James Meeks, Michael Pfleger and Jeremiah Wright could not be reached for comment...

Yet.

Update: Found Via Maggie's Farm, "Faith Flashback: Obama Says Christian Right Drives People Apart".

Except for those clinging bitter unemployed gun-toting people it brings together, of course.

Meanwhile, Sweetness And Light links to the Chicago Tribune:

CNN is reporting this afternoon that Sen. Barack Obama is leaving Trinity United Church of Christ, his longtime religious home on Chicago’s South Side and a place that has triggered repeated controversies during his presidential bid.

Obama press aides could not immediately be reached to confirm the report.

The latest controversy erupted this past week when an Internet video emerged from an appearance at the church last weekend by the Rev. Michael Pfleger.

Pfleger, who has had numerous run-ins with Chicago’s Roman Catholic archdiocese involving his political activism, mocked Sen. Hillary Clinton from the pulpit during a guest appearance at the church. The priest also suggested the former first lady is a white elitist who felt entitled to the Democratic nomination.

Indeed he did.

More: Byron York notes:

CNN is reporting, based on CNN contributor Roland Martin, that Barack and Michelle Obama have resigned from Trinity United Church of Christ.

You can watch Martin and Soledad O'Brien give two big thumbs up to Wright's NAACP appearance back in late April here.

O' Brien was still gushing the next day. A week later though, CNN's John Roberts would helpfully declare the network "a Reverend Wright-free zone", before Obama declared himself completely Trinity-free today.

Can't wait to find out how all this will be written up in the next issue of The Trumpet!

Meanwhile, John Podhoretz has a few questions:

The breaking news is that tonight (Saturday night), Barack Obama will announce he has resigned his membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago — the former pulpit of Jeremiah Wright from which the Catholic priest Michael Pfleger made his incendiary remarks about Hillary Clinton. This is of course the same church that Obama said contained within it every aspect of the black community (which raises the question of whether he is, by the same logic, resigning from the black community). There’s something about this decision that raises more questions than it answers. Is Obama doing this now because he is on the verge of securing the nomination and no longer needs to worry so much about disappointing his base? Or is he worried there is more to come on YouTube from the Trinity United stage and he wants to have dissociated himself from it all beforehand? Is he going to have to give another major speech on race to revise and amend his previous speech on race?

The answer to that last question depends on how tough a grilling he'll receive from the press. When cynical steely old media finally turns up the heat on its favorite candidate, will it be room temperature, or merely tepid?