Etheridge akatsigira chisarudzo chaBarack Obama chokuti mufundisi Rick Warren ataure pakugadzwa kwake semutungamiri wenyika muna 2009
, achidavira kuti anogona kutsigira kurukurirano kuti apfupise musiyano uri pakati pevaKristu vanoita zveungochani nevasina. Akataura mumutsara wake pa"The Huffington Post" kuti "Chokwadi, kune vanhu vazhinji vanovenga avo vachagara vakabatirira pakusagadzikana kwavo semwana kune gumbeze. Asi kunewo vanhu vakanaka kunze uko, vechiKristu navamwewo, vari kuvamba kuteerera".