Let me make it perfectly clear:

A private organization has the RIGHT to pay their employees whatever amount they choose. I will fight for this right for them to do so.

Now of course, I am going to be on the lookout for some sort of consistency between those who call out high paid corporate executives as their main sport.

With the growing need for community services within the Harlem Community in New York as a result of this "Bush Recession" we are in, certainly this church was unwise to offer their new preacher such a generious compensation package. This is indeed "a lot of cheddar" that could have been served to the individuals waiting in the soup line.

This indeed is an opportunity for "organic community socialism" that has been squandered as the leader has taken too much off of the top of the collection plate.

Riverside Church Pastor Resigns After 9 Months

Since its founding in 1930 as a Gothic cathedral built by John D. Rockefeller, Riverside Church has espoused a progressive and often pacifist agenda. But internal fights have plagued the congregation for more than a decade.

Longtime members ascribe some of the tension to changes in the racial makeup of the 2,700-member congregation, which was once about 60 percent white and 40 percent black, and now is roughly the reverse. Some of the troubles are traced to generational differences, between older whites with roots in the civil rights era and younger, middle-class black members who are less politicized.
Dr. Braxton, a Baptist minister and former Rhodes scholar, appeared to knit together both those traditions, calling himself a “progressive evangelical.”

But his opponents kept up their attacks, saying that his pay package exceeded $600,000 a year, including a $250,000 salary and a housing allowance. Experts on American churches said the pastor’s compensation was well above average among pastors nationwide, but within the range of packages for senior pastors of similar major churches in other big cities.