CNN: Obama resigns church membership

While the DNC Rules Committee continues to meet behind closed doors, there's a little breaking news coming from CNN contributor Roland Martin who reports that Senator Obama is resigning from his church in Chicago. I'll see what more info I can dig up on this development. Stay tuned.

UPDATE: Martin's on a cellphone so it's tough to hear specifics, but I did manage to understand that he's waiting on a letter of some sort. From whom is unclear. Martin did mention he hasn't spoken to the church or the Obama campaign yet so we'll see what the official word is when it comes down. But the CNN punditry seems to agree that this move by Obama's campaign is an attempt to avert potential problems going into the general election. It's obviously sad for Obama and sad for Trinity, but from a political strategy perspective, it's probably safest to disengage from what's unfortunately become a hotbed of controversy before the fall.

UPDATE from Joe: MSNBC is reporting the same news. Rachel Maddow think it's good timing for Obama to announce this news now.