Obama: Sermon on the Mount supports gay civil unions (Obama derides the Bible)

Baptist Press ^

[No Dems 2004]

NELSONVILLE, Ohio (BP)--Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama defended his belief in same-sex civil unions March 2 by referencing Jesus' Sermon on the Mount and then implicitly criticizing those who view Romans as a binding teaching on homosexuality.

Obama made the comments during a question-and-answer session with voters in Nelsonville, Ohio. A local pastor asked Obama how he plans to win the votes of evangelical voters when they disagree with him on moral issues.

"I believe in civil unions that allow a same-sex couple to visit each other in a hospital or transfer property to each other," he said, referring to unions that grant all the legal benefits of marriage, minus the name. "I don't think it should be called marriage, but I think that it is a legal right that they should have that is recognized by the state. 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. That's my view. But we can have a respectful disagreement on that."

The Sermon on the Mount is found in Matthew 5-7, the passage in Romans is found in chapter 1, verses 26-32.

But Obama's quote may open him up to further criticism from evangelicals, because it's a common evangelical belief that all of Scripture is inspired by God and equally authoritative -- that is, the words of Jesus in Matthew are just as inspired as the words of Paul in Romans. Although it is often argued by homosexual activists that Jesus said nothing about same-sex relationships, He in fact defined marriage as between one man and one woman in such passages as Mark 10:6-9.

[weegee]

So sodomites are “living in sin” because they aren’t married? Who knew?

[umgud]

Um, Mr. Obama, maybe you've not read the Bible much but there's nothing 'obscure' about the passage in Romans and it's repeated elsewhere in the Bible, both New Testament and Old.

Um, he's a constitutional scholar and yet doesn't understand the 2nd Amendment either.

[taxesareforever]

an “obscure passage” in the Bible? What else does he consider obscure? The Sixth Commandment, Thou shalt not kill? Guess so, since he supports abortion.

[weegee]

They do not have this problem in Iran. Perhaps Barack Hussein Obama will undergo a fact finding mission in Iran to learn what their solution was to the homosexual question.

[weegee]

The story of Sodom and Gommorah was also “obscure” in Obama’s text.

[genghis]

two explanations
1- meek imply homosexual imply obama is a homophobic
2- hussein obama is a moron
OK, both maybe true
The good news is is the election is 8 months off and we get to hear more ridiculous quotes everyday.

[JSteff]

“an obscure passage in Romans LMAO”

Yeah but to many moslems it is obscure.

[Philo-Junius]

“In addition to the Sermon on the Mount, let us also consider the fact that Chewbacca the Wookie is from the planet Endor...”

[LowOiL]

[mockingbyrd]

You missed the obscure ninth beatitude....”blessed are the gays, for they shall be able to marry and stuff.”

[ChiMark]

You gotta admit this guy needs to be the democrat candidate.

[doug from upland]

Sermon on men mounting is more like it.

[restornu]

Obama: Sermon on the Mount supports gay civil unions (Obama derides the Bible)

Obama also says he prays to Jesus every night most Christians I know pray to Heavenly Father in the Name of Jesus Christ!

[lonevoice]

ping!

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

The Messiah, Barack ("Peace Be Upon His Middle No Name") Obama's, "Sermon on The Mount"

[ashtanga]

This fellow of indeterminate background, religion and nationality seems to believe that reality is essentially an intellectual construct, and that it is up to the cultural Marxists to invent a world in which self-congratulations is all. Never mind truth -that racist stuff is for the red staters, who think that a horse hair in a bottle of water will turn into an asp.

[pallis]

Well, so much for Mr. Obama’s devout Christianity. It didn’t take him long to reveal his true master. The spirit that possesses him is not so obscure as his understanding of scripture.

[sheik yerbouty]

Hussein Obama thought the sermon had to do with “mounting”..

[blasater1960]

If Conservatives stay home it will be...”I Barak Hussein Obama, do solemly swear”......Think about it folks....

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With his left hand firmly on the Quran....