Gadzooks! I wonder what... 
the Emancipation Proclamation will justify him doing?
Posted on 03/03/2008 4:24:08 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Obama: Sermon on Mount Justifies Same-Sex Unions By Terence P. Jeffrey CNSNews.com Editor in Chief March 03, 2008
(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) told a crowd at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio, Sunday that he believes the Sermon on the Mount justifies his support for legal recognition of same-sex unions. He also told the crowd that his position in favor of legalized abortion does not make him "less Christian."
"I don't think it [a same-sex union] should be called marriage, but I think that it is a legal right that they should have that is recognized by the state," said Obama. "If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount, which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, more central than an obscure passage in Romans." (See video here) St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans condemns homosexual acts as unnatural and sinful.
Obama's mention of the Sermon on the Mount in justifying legal recognition of same-sex unions may have been a reference to the Golden Rule: "Do to others what you would have them do to you." Or it may have been a reference to another famous line: "Do not judge, or you too will be judged."
The Sermon, recorded in the Gospel of Matthew, includes the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes, an endorsement of scriptural moral commandments ("anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven"), and condemnations of murder, divorce and adultery. It also includes a warning: "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves."
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Gadzooks! I wonder what... the Emancipation Proclamation will justify him doing?
You are 100% correct. I am a Christian and have read the Bible cover to cover. Not only can one NOT find any approval of homosexual unions, you will find exactly the opposite in both the old and new testaments.
These liberals treat the Bible the same way they do the Constitution. They claim the Constitution to be “living and breathing”, which is to say, it will mean what I decide it means, not what it says.
1. He’s in favor of adultery (homosexual unions).
2. He’s in favor of murder (abortion).
3. He thinks the Sermon on the mount permits these things, in spite of its instructions not to kill and not to hate, nor to look upon a woman with lust.
You gotta ask yourself -- is this clown really a Christian?
He's never been baptized as far as I know. He should prove he has been....
Because he was born Muslim and went to Koran recitation classes in Indonesia. These classes are in Arabic
Makes me wonder if that guy who claimed Obama smoked dope and “consumed some ‘smoked sausage’ “ with him some years ago was actually telling the truth!
This man is the Anti-Christ.
Surely Satan is in favor of the way Mr. Obama interprets the Sermon on the Mount.
Well, he is trying to be consistent: both the Bible and the Constitution are ‘living documents’.
Not true. Being the anti-Christ would be less than not being a Christian in the first place, which is just about where I am starting to put this a-wipe.
Well if the Olympics ever have a category for "Verbal" Gymnastics Obama yo Mama has won the first 4 Gold Medals with this performance alone.
Obama— Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t
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The more I hear from him the less I understand him, he certainly doesn’t seem to be a faithful Christian regardless of what he claims but neither does he seem to fit what I would expect of a Muslim Manchurian Candidate. Actually he seems to be just an overconfident clown with a gift for speechifying and very little to say that amounts to anything, yet he is held up as some kind of genius. Am I missing something or is he just the proof that the dumbing down of this country is nearly complete?
Good repost!
Perhaps Obama, being the current Democrat Messiah, knows what Jesus really *meant* to say, since you know, he’s sooooooo close to God and all.
It’s a ridiculous position for him to take, and I cannot believe his handlers let him state this in public, as they have to know that most conservatives, when they got wind of this, will publicize this to no end, and a lot of people, left and right will be turned off by these types of idiotic statements.
The passage in Romans is only obscure because Obama doesn’t read his bible. He is, at best, a Burger King Christian (he’s going to have it his way). And there is nothing about sodomites being married in the Sermon on the Mount.
Yes, all hail Obama... Take a sip and you will see the wonder that is Obambie..
Obambies are part of a cult of Obama Zombies... They claim Obama has come... A light shown down upon them and made them see that he is the One and like Neo he will save us all from the Matrix that is George W. Bush.
Be very afraid becuase you will be assimilated.
Obama is just an improved version of Jesse Jackson. He’s more slicker and 20 times better and it shows. All I see is an Oprah approved huckster
Just more evidence of what a YOUNG, EXTREMELY NAIVE, FOOLISH, DANGEROUS KOOK Obama is.
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I can agree with all except the word young, he may be young compared to McCain but he is several years older than JFK was when he ran in 1960 and is of an age when a man should be of mature judgement. Granted we should all keep learning all our lives but he is middle aged by any reasonable definition.
I don't believe this was told him by God the Father, but perhaps by the father of lies.
“Laters”?
Why do people misquote and misuse this scripture as an example of trying to tell people you can not judge others? It's ridiculous!
The scripture doesn't say, DO NOT JUDGE. It only says you will be judged. And Jesus further elaborates to finish this sentence I belive, by stating you will be judged "in the same manner."
All it's really saying is you're going to judged as you judge others, so be careful how you judge people.
You know about that verse (Rom 1:27) and I know about that verse, but it might well be obscure to liberals. The Episcopal Church has not officially read that verse either at Mass or in Morning or Evening Prayer since before 1928. They didn’t miss much of the NT, but they have always stepped around that first chapter of Romans.
The liberals have been adroit as avoiding what they don’t want to know for a lot longer than any of us have been alive.
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