David Gray: Who is Sarah Palin’s Pastor?

With all the focus during the primary campaign season on the words of the candidates’ ministers, whether it was Jeremiah Wright for Barack Obama or John Hagee for John McCain, one has to wonder when the press will start focusing on Sarah Palin’s pastor. As a member of a conservative, evangelical congregation in suburban Alaska, there is a decent chance Palin was present for some controversial sermons from time to time. Much as Obama was hit with the content of Wright’s sermons, one would expect Palin to receive the same treatment from the media in terms of her pastor’s remarks.

–David Gray directs the New America Foundation’s Workforce and Family Program. An attorney and ordained Presbyterian minister, he is a chaplain at American University in Washington, DC.

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