UCC head responds to attacks on Obama's church: Chicago congregation is UCC's largest
Efforts to portray the Chicago church of which Senator Barack Obama is a member as racist and anti-American are “absurd, mean-spirited and politically motivated,” said John Thomas, head of the United Church of Christ.
Thomas, the denomination’s general minister and president, said that since Obama won the Iowa caucuses on January 3, “countless e-mails . . . meant to undermine the integrity of Trinity UCC” have flooded the UCC’s national offices in Cleveland.