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Catholic and Baptist leaders react to Obama's gay marriage support
News Channel 9 ^ | May 9, 2012 | NC9

Posted on 05/09/2012 10:33:18 PM PDT by Cronos

Leaders of the nation's two largest religious denominations are expressing distress and sadness at President Barack Obama's newly announced support for gay marriage.

New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who heads the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, says Obama's remarks "undermine the institution of marriage, the very cornerstone of our society." He adds, "The people of this country, especially our children, deserve better."

The Rev. Bryant Wright, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, predicted that voters will hold Obama accountable for what Wright calls "a calculated, politically expedient decision that completely ignores the biblical foundation of marriage."

But in the ABC interview, Obama linked his decision to his faith in Jesus Christ and the Golden Rule, which he paraphrased as: "Treat others the way you would want to be treated.


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well, at least 'bam drew that line in the sand. Now it's up to us conservatives to pull those sitting on the fence to join us conservatives.
1 posted on 05/09/2012 10:33:21 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

Zero is a sodomite-—he loves the practice....so naturally he is for the bath house culture.

He wants to normalize his behavior “for the children”. They need the “normalization” for such dysfunctional, evil lifestyles or else children might reject it. He wants to totally transform the worldview of our children—the next generation—to the pagan/Satanic/Marxist/Masonic worldview of homosexuality which has always used pederasty to conditioned and seduce the boys into the lifestyle and for their Satanic rituals and at the Bohemian Grove.


2 posted on 05/09/2012 10:44:01 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: Cronos

So, Malia, when you grow up, are you going to marry a boy or a girl?


3 posted on 05/09/2012 10:57:44 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Tagline For Sale)
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To: Cronos
>"distress and sadness"

The Indonesian is provoking the Wrath of G_d Almighty upon US!

Pray people. It's our only hope.

4 posted on 05/09/2012 11:13:46 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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But in the ABC interview, Obama linked his decision to his faith in Jesus Christ and the Golden Rule...

Is this the same faith that underlies Obama's support for abortion rights?

5 posted on 05/09/2012 11:17:52 PM PDT by TChad
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To: Cronos

Obama doesn’t support gay marriage. He said so before he realized it was politically inconvenient.


6 posted on 05/09/2012 11:23:23 PM PDT by Méabh
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To: Cronos
Obama linked his decision to his faith in Jesus Christ and the Golden Rule, which he paraphrased as: "Treat others the way you would want to be treated.

If I'm trapped in a life of sin that will separate me from God and send me to an eternity in hell, I sure would like others to warn, cajole, put obstacles in my way ... rather than to say, 'Go for it. I affirm your lifestyle and celebrate your choices...'...
The President opts for the praise of the world, rather than the praise of God.

7 posted on 05/09/2012 11:30:29 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: El Cid

You know, that is PRECISELY something that the “Anti-Christ” would say. Quoting Sacred Scripture backwards and forward, but making a mockery of it. And drawing masses of adoring, non-thinking koolaid drinkers.


8 posted on 05/09/2012 11:36:26 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Study closely socialist Hugo Chavez' usage of 'popular masses' in the streets to thwart 1992 coup)
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To: Cronos

So, what’s next?

Legalized ...
Polygamy?
Group marriage?
Incestuous marriage?
Pedophilic marriage?
Bestial marriage?
Necrophilic marriage?

Hey, why not?

If you allow members of the same sex to marry, why not all those others?

They are all identity groups based on what they do to seek orgasms.

What makes one less valid than the other? If one is valid, they all are valid, no?

I mean, give me a really good LOGICAL reason not to allow these things if you’re going to promote same sex marriage?


9 posted on 05/09/2012 11:56:53 PM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: El Cid

Obama...Try applying that rule to abortion. IDIOT!!


10 posted on 05/09/2012 11:56:58 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Méabh

Apparently, Mahlia and Sasha have friends who have gay parents. THEN THEY AREN’T THEIR PARENTS!!!


11 posted on 05/09/2012 11:58:51 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Méabh

“Obama doesn’t support gay marriage. He said so before he realized it was politically inconvenient.”

I realize this is a question of which time he was lying. But do you really think he opposed homosexual marriage in 2008? I think it was a lie then because he was running as a moderate uniter.


12 posted on 05/10/2012 12:36:32 AM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Cronos

Since when did “Treat your neighbor as yourself” translate to “let your neighbor do anything his heart desires no matter what, and you can too”?


13 posted on 05/10/2012 12:41:38 AM PDT by Yaelle
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I’m neither for nor against gay marriage, and I support the right of consenting adults to do and live as they will, but here’s all I have to say to Barack Hussein Anti-Gay-Before-I-Was-Pro-Gay Obama: YOU CHEAP, SMARMY, BUTT-KISSING, BOOT-LICKING POLITICAL WHORE. How blissful for a panderer-in-cheap to have a base with a memory hole as deep as the core of the Earth.

Everyone knows the easiest, laziest, most brain-dead way to get a free foot massage from the media, entertainment industry and yutes is to give lip service to the gay rights movement. And of course, the legions of idiots are showering him with rose petals and laurels, singing praises for all the “courage” he has shown in agreeing with the cool kids (as always, don’t read the LA Times if you’d like your lunch to stay put), and generously forgetting all the things he said about gay marriage before they became unhip.


14 posted on 05/10/2012 1:20:23 AM PDT by Méabh
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To: Méabh

Oops, I didn’t realize I’d already replied to this thread.


15 posted on 05/10/2012 1:22:20 AM PDT by Méabh
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To: ModelBreaker

As is ever the case with this transparent administration, we may never, ever know the answer.


16 posted on 05/10/2012 1:23:58 AM PDT by Méabh
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To: Westbrook
I mean, give me a really good LOGICAL reason not to allow these things if you’re going to promote same sex marriage?

Here's a logical reason: sticking it to the traditionalists, who happen to make up a large part of the resistance to the socialist overhaul. Staging a fake struggle for "equal rights" (keep repeating that phrase until nobody questions it) to demonize and discredit your opponents in the gullible eyes of the public; casting them as "enemies of progress," the likes of which opposed equality for blacks and women, and who, if not forcefully suppressed, will endanger YOUR rights. Otherwise, as I see it, the only logical stances to take on the legal definition of marriage are to leave it be, preserving its original intent--to define and reinforce family structure as prescribed by nature and ancient tradition--or stop trying to legally define marriage altogether and let individuals, churches and other private entities decide what a legitimate family looks like. I tend to favor the latter. If one man, one woman is the natural and/or divine order of things, it will prevail without artificial measures like legal marriage licenses. But the left isn't interested in the logical means to a free society. They're interested in the logical means to their own dominance.
17 posted on 05/10/2012 2:01:22 AM PDT by Méabh
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Obama linked his decision to his faith in Jesus Christ and the Golden Rule, which he paraphrased as: "Treat others the way you would want to be treated.

Right. So if I am engaged in dangerous, perverted, body and soul destroying behavior then I WOULD WANT someone to help me STOP.

18 posted on 05/10/2012 2:03:51 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Cronos

Enough is ENOUGH with Obama. He is simply now “one and done.”


19 posted on 05/10/2012 3:27:01 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Jeff Chandler

...”So, Malia, when you grow up, are you going to marry a boy or a girl?”...

And, Malia is how old? 13? Does anyone remember what the country’s reaction was when Jimmy Carter consulted his young daughter, Amy, on what to do about nuclear weapons or some such serious issue and the country groaned. In the minds of many, the issue of homosexual marriage, long term, is of greater concern to our culture. Greater minds than the undeveloped mind of a child should be consulted on this one.


20 posted on 05/10/2012 4:06:00 AM PDT by jazzlite (esat)
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