Misuse of the pulpit

During the Easter service at the St. John's Episcopal church in Washington, attended by Obama and his family, the minister  delivered a political rant that should be condemned by all Christians.  Rev. Dr. Luis Leon said that  “It drives me crazy when the captains of the religious right are always calling us back … for blacks to be back in the back of the bus … for women to be back in the kitchen … for immigrants to be back on their side of the border”.   Why this left wing minister thought it was a good idea to inject a divisive and inflammatory political message into a sermon on one of Christians' holiest days of redemption, rebirth, renewal, and the good news of the Gospels, only he can answer.   His willingness to do so, and the willingness of the episcopate to condone this conjoining of left wing politics and religion, is likely the major reason this sect and other so called mainstream Protestant faiths have been losing communicants in droves.