Posted on 03/03/2008 8:03:52 AM PST by Gopher Broke
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.
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The sure mark of a picker-and-chooser. Maybe his bible won't open to that page. Or perhaps he has the "small letter" version, where stuff liberal don't like is written in very small, obscure letters on a grain of rice attached to the page.
There's nothing in the Sermon on the Mount that condones homosexual behavior. Admonishment to love our neighbor is to love him despite his and our sins, not because of them. If we were all sinless, what would be not to love?
It's in the famous "self-esteem" verse where Jesus says that noone should ever feel badly about having sinned against God.
ping
ROFL!!!
That would be hilarious (if it weren't so retarded)! In fact, the Sermon on the Mount is infinitely more strident than the Law of Moses. NO ONE CAN LIVE IT. Without God's explanations through His servant Paul, we would be without hope in light of the Sermon on the Mount. Thanks God, Paul explains that it is not I, but Christ, living in me, after I receive the Spirit of Adoption. It is the gifts and the fruits of the Spirit that enable the Life of Christ to manifest themselves in me (and anyone else who is "in Christ", as Paul repeatedly says). So please, anyone who desires to "use" Scripture needs to take it as a whole (lest it be incomprehensible or meaningless). Indeed, you need Scripture to interpret Scripture. It's a beautiful thing. Osama, et al, should try it.
Sooner or later the whiners and pouters here on FR are going to realize that JOHN MCCAIN IS THEIR ONLY OPTION ON NOVEMBER 4TH!
(By the way I don’t like it either but that’s just the way it is.)
Shows what Obama thinks about the bible. To him, it is obviously not God's word, so he can pick out what he likes and ignore the rest.
Political hate speech from the Almighty One!
(and as an aside, the name “Obama” fails spell check)
Woo! McCain! Delaying the death of the country by 4 years.
its our only hope! Vote for death delayed, not death immediate!
Obama is DUMB!!!
Someone MUST ask him if he believes that the Christ is of God and the Son of God.
If he answers any other way than YES, then he is an antichrist and false prophet.
Cowboy wannabe Barack...’All hat and plenty sheeple’.
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