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.
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.
Roger that. The passage is not obscure at all. It it the first thing Paul gets to after the introduction because the issue of man's corrupted heart is the bedrock of the the entire book. Anyone who thinks this passage is obscure has not read and does not understand the message of Romans.
Also if one is going to use the "judge not" passage of Matthew 7 (the last chapter of the sermon on the mount) to justify gay marriage then you could use this passage to rationalize ANY anti social or criminal behavior. ("Leave that ax murderer alone! - Haven't you heard, Judge not")