Wright Stole His Wife from Parishioner

Story #6: Jerry Wright Stole His Wife from Parishioner

RUSH: Don't doubt me. I happened to mention to Snerdley at the top-of-the-hour break, in this hour, "Did you hear that Jerry Wright stole his wife from a parishioner?" And Snerdley, "No, I didn't hear that." I said, "Yeah, it's true, it was in the New York Post over the weekend. This couple in Jerry's church are having trouble, and Wright counseled them and ended up marrying the woman." And Snerdley told Dawn, and Dawn refuses to believe it, that Jerry wouldn't do that, of all the things that Jerry's done, Jerry Wright wouldn't do that. I'm sure Jerry could find a biblical precedent for this. Finds a biblical precedent for everything else he thinks. New York Post exclusive, May 4th: "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. Asked if Wright broke up his marriage, Reed laughed, then said, 'I told my kids I wouldn't say anything to hurt their stepfather, so I'm not saying anything.' But he said he's been hounded by the press and 'offered money' to tell his story. A spokesman for the Wright family flatly denied the allegation yesterday. 'This story has no merit whatsoever and is not based on facts,' said George Lofton. 'They had problems throughout the course of their turbulent marriage, and the couple never received marriage counseling from Rev. Wright or anyone else.' But Reed, a former investigator for the Illinois secretary of state, told The Post he and his ex-wife went to Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ for counseling when their marriage hit the skids over his demanding work schedule. 'I spoke with [Wright] four times over a few months,' Reed said in an interview at his upscale home in Lemont, Ill. 'Her father asked me to go to counseling. We thought we'd be together forever. I decided to try to work this out.' Asked if he's forgiven the pastor, Reed nodded. 'I let it go,' he said. 'I don't want my kids to hear anything negative about their stepfather.'"

Don't doubt me.