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976 posted on 01/02/2020 7:36:27 PM PST by Steven W.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/02/obama-speechwriter-original-versions-of-bible-and-constitution-are-evil/
Obama Speechwriter: Original Versions of Bible and Constitution Are ‘Evil’

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AXELROD: Some of the language is kind of, well, archaic, impenetrable, so how do you derive from that modern meaning?

HURWITZ: Yeah. The Torah, which is the first five books of what Christians call the Old Testament, it’s 2,500 year old. News flash, it’s really old. Constitution, more than 200 years old. If we lived by the original version of the Constitution, that would be evil. It would be an abomination. Same if we lived by the original version of the Torah. You reinterpret it. We amended the Constitution to get rid of slavery, thank God. We amended it to let women vote, thank God. We continue to amend this document. Same with the Torah, right? We have spent 2,500 years reinterpreting, reimagining it, to make it consistent with our moral sensibilities of the time.

Hurwitz went on to praise same-sex marriages performed by Jewish clergy as a modern function of what she described as a moral reimagination and reinterpretation of the Torah


984 posted on 01/02/2020 7:41:52 PM PST by TXBubba (Democrats: If they don't abort you they will tax you to death.)
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