Posted on 03/04/2008 1:14:43 PM PST by fweingart
In Robert Bolt's great play A Man for All Seasons, medieval English statesman Sir Thomas More says, "the American media would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount."
Whoops, Sir Thomas actually said that about the nobility of England, not the U.S. media, but there's little doubt the American press would be snoring right beside them. After all, the media just snored through Barack Obama's abuse of the Sermon of the Mount to justify same-sex civil unions.
"People who are gay and lesbian should be treated with dignity and respect and the state should not discriminate against them," said Obama on Sunday in a campaign speech at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio. "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 .... 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."
Don't miss that last clause. Barack Obama is going beyond twisting Scripture to justify sin. He is also telling America how to interpret the Bible, the founding document of Western civilization and the foundation of America's Constitution -- by cherrypicking. In Obama's formulation, some verses count more than others, and he is willing to invoke the authority of Scripture to support policies based on his personal preferences.
This is explosive stuff, especially for a politician trying to reach across party lines to win support from religion-minded voters. Given the prominence of candidates' faith in this election, you'd think the media would be all over this story. Not quite. Our review shows that the sparse coverage of Obama's speech falls into three categories:
1. Reports on what Obama said about homosexual civil unions being justified by the Sermon on the Mount, but buried deep in the story: (2) • Washington Post political blog "The Trail" • Los Angeles Times political blog "Top of the Ticket"
2. Reports on Obama's views on civil unions, but no mention of the Sermon: (1) • Dayton Daily News
3. Reports on only Obama's preferred message from the speech, that he's a "devout Christian," not a Muslim, or in one case (Dallas Morning News) that he's an inspiration to biracial families: (8) • Associated Press, in four stories • The Columbus Dispatch • The Houston Chronicle • The New York Post • The Dallas Morning News
At least eight major media organs had reporters covering Obama's speech, and together they filed 11 stories. Not a single newspaper ran a story reporting that Obama said his support of homosexual civil unions is justified by the Sermon on the Mount, and that he chose to reject the counsel of the Book of Romans. Imagine if Mike Huckabee had cited Romans to justify opposition to civil unions. Wouldn't The New York Times have put the story on the front page, complete with dire warnings of impending theocracy?
The Culture and Media Institute sees two possible explanations for this coverage. Either the media fail to recognize the significance of Obama twisting the meaning of the Sermon on the Mount and rejecting the Book of Romans, or they are covering up for their preferred candidate.
In Bolt's play Sir Thomas More also said, "I think that when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos."
Barack Obama has just given us a good look into his own private conscience. Americans deserve the opportunity to decide whether Obama as president would lead us into the heady kingdom of Change, or send the country to Hell in a handbasket.
Professional responsibility should impel the media to cover this story.
He and Hillary would make a good fit on the same ticket.
What clear thinking person would believe that the sermon on the mount was about the 'gay' lifestyle?
He is the magic negro, even though he’s not black. Yield you racists!
Obama is the radical far left’s poster boy......
A child of wrath who’s father is the lord of this world (Satan).
Well, gee whiz, cut the boy some slack: after all, he’s much more familiar with quotations from the koran.
sadly, most Christians have little knowledge of scripture and will say “well, if that’s what the Bible says.....”
Obama is 'covered' by his many friends in the media and he knows full well that he can say almost anything in these local gatherings and not be held accountable. The GOP should be documenting these public statements and, if Obama is the Democrat presidential candidate, have the Republican candidate (presumably McCain) challenge Barack as to what he meant by this statement, preferably asking the question during a televised debate, where the media can't cover up for him.
Sadly, I doubt this will happen and leftist politicians like Barack Hussein Obama will continue to stoop so low as to use the bible as a political justification for endorsing sinful conduct, while the media ignore it and the GOP pretends not to notice. I can't wait until this election is over.
Because he’s above reproach. Anything you say that is negative, even if it’s reference his own words, automatically labels you as a bad guy in some way.
How could America have a President Barack Obama?
Impossible.
We did, however, have a Secretary of the Army named Togo. He was, of course, appointed by our famed and beloved President Clinton I.
Homosexuals need to keep in mind, however, that the good news of the gospel is not about how God despises same-sex sexual relationships. In fact, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 tells us that certain members of that church had been slaves to such relationships but had been cleansed in Jesus' name. So these former homosexuals had evidently repented and accepted God's grace to straighten their lives out.
John 3:16
Revelation 3:20
The most relevant part of the Sermon on the Mt. regarding Imam Obama is this:
Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
and this:
Not everyone who says to me, "Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven."
The ascendancy of BHO is the realization of the efforts of all the Cultural Marxists whose ideas were nurtured by the Gramcians who set up the Frankfurt School and spawned cultural radicals like Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, and Theodore Adorno. Their intellectual progeny are thoroughly ensconced in the MSM, academia, Hollywood, and most importantly in the George Soros directed modern day Democratic Party which is the nest for all the Vipers on the left, the racial identity determininists, the radical feminists, the sexual deviationist lobby, the “watermelon” environmentalists, the open borders crowd and the anti-war seditionists who seek to steal from our magnificent armed forces the victory that they have earned with their blood and valor in the SAME MANNER as they stole our hard earned victory from those of us who are Vietnam vets.
Their apotheosis is the religion of Obama, the Lucifer deceiver who would lead this great nation to Fabian Socialist HELL!!!
Should Obama or Clinton get a compliant Democrat Congress and Senate, the damage done to this country and to liberty as we have known it, would be incalculable. They are the most dangerous presidential candidates since Henry Wallace. Please check this link. It will tell you all that you need to know. There is credible info that could lead one to believe that his Indonesian stepfather to him to Mosque with the intent of making him Muslim. His own campaign said in a LA Time article that he was never a REGULARLY practicing Muslim, leading one to infer that he was an IRREGULARLY practicing Muslim. That is enough for the Muzzies to convict him as an apostate or to accept him as one of the faithful deceiving the dhimmis. Check the years 1971-1973 at the link below.
http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/obama.htm
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