CHICAGO -- Concerned about possible harm the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. did to Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign, 30 respected Chicago-area African-American pastorscame together Friday to support the Illinois senator.
The pastors, who represent the Pentecostal, Baptist and Episcopal faiths, gathered at historic Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church on Chicago's South Side and said it was time to get back to the real issues of the campaign.
The Rev. Leon Finney Jr., pastor of Metropolitan Apostolic Community Church, said Wright and his sermons had been "politicized" to divert attention from the nation's problems, including the Iraq war, rising | 
