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Wright Is a Wife-Snatcher: Ex-Parishioner

Posted May 4, 08 4:21 PM CDT in Gossip,  Politics 

(Newser) – Barack Obama's controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright was making passes at a parishioner's wife when he was supposed to be giving the couple marriage counseling, the New York Post reports. "People were telling me that my extremely attractive wife was seen with the pastor," said Delmer Reed, who says he sought help at Trinity. "But I thought, 'So what?'"

Either Reed's telling the truth, "or this was the biggest coincidence in the world," said his lawyer, as Ramah Reed did indeed marry Wright. Reed claims he met with the pastor four times for counseling, but a Wright family spokesman denies the sessions ever occurred. As for whether Wright was blame, Reed is mum: "I told my kids I wouldn't hurt their stepfather," he said.

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Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, shown here with his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright in this file photo.   (Associated Press)
Obama speaks about the latest assertion by his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, that criticism of Wright's fiery sermons is an attack on the black church.   (Associated Press)
Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.addresses a breakfast gathering at the National Press Club in Washington, Monday, April 28, 2008.   (Associated Press)
Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. prepares to addresses a breakfast gathering at the National Press Club in Washington, Monday, April 28, 2008.   (Associated Press)
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. speaks at the Detroit NAACP's 53rd annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner in Detroit, Sunday, April 27, 2008.   (Associated Press)
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