I wonder -- how many pastors would survive the sort of improprieties that appear to have gone on here?

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's loose cannon of a spiritual adviser, stole the wife of a parishioner - after the man sought Wright's help in saving his troubled marriage, the former husband told friends.

Delmer Reed, 59, confided to pals that he believed the minister moved in on his wife while Wright was counseling the couple at his Chicago church in the early 1980s, The Post has learned.

"That's exactly how he said it," Reed's divorce lawyer, Roosevelt Thomas, told The Post.

"It looks like Delmer might have been right," he said, because after Delmer and Ramah Reed were divorced, she got remarried - to Wright. "Either that or this was the biggest coincidence in the world."

Asked about the relationship between Wright and his ex-wife, Reed told The Post, "Oh, the things I could tell you."

Initially, he didn't believe the rumors.

"People were telling me that my extremely attractive wife was seen with the pastor," Reed said. "But I didn't believe it. I thought, 'So what?' "

Was he wrong in the end?

"Well, yeah," he said.

Reed won't however, take the next step and outright accuse Wright of behaving improperly -- but not because he doesn't believe that case. Instead, he is abiding by a commitment to his children not to say anything damaging to their stepfather.

Unlike the horrendous statements from teh pulpit made by Jeremiah Wright, I don't see where this story really has anything to do with Barack Obama. But the exposure of this story now is simply one more case of chickens coming home to roost for the racist reverend.

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