Well, I think we can all admit... 
if it was a White guy, like say John McCain, saying the Sermon on the Mount justifies the Ten Commandments, he'd be stoned to death by Democrats and the MSM.
Posted on 03/06/2008 6:46:39 PM PST by markomalley
.- Democrat presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama in a speech before a Hocking College crowd on Sunday claimed that the Sermon on the Mount justifies his support for legal recognition of same-sex unions, Cybercast News Service reports. Obama’s speech drew perplexed responses from commentators who did not see the connection. "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." The Sermon on the Mount, as recorded in the Gospel of Matthew, includes the Beatitudes, an endorsement of scriptural moral commandments, and condemnations of murder, divorce, and adultery. The passage in Romans (1:27) referred to by Obama condemns those who have rejected their creation in God’s image by their actions, among the acts mentioned is homosexual sex. Kiera McCaffrey director of communications for the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, responded to Obama’s remarks on same-sex unions.
"It seems pretty bogus using (the Bible) to justify civil unions," McCaffrey told Cybercast News Service. "He should be using secular reasons to back it up. "He can search the whole Bible and not find anything that justifies gay marriage or same-sex unions," she said. Other religious leaders were also puzzled by Obama’s connection of the Sermon on the Mount and same-sex unions. "If he's finding support for same-sex marriage from the Sermon on the Mount, he's reading a different Bible than I've ever read," Tom Minnery, senior vice president of government and public policy with Focus on the Family, told Cybercast News Service. Reverend Jesse Peterson, founder and president of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, told Cybercast News Service that he too saw no connection between the cited passages and Obama’s platform. "When I first heard Obama comment on the Sermon on the Mount and homosexuality I couldn't grasp any relationship between the two," Peterson said. "There is no correlation at all. The Sermon on the Mount is for the saints, and it explains their suffering and their reward as a result of suffering for what is right for Christ's sake. It doesn't give blessings or approval to homosexual unions," he said. Obama recently published a letter on his campaign website promising that he would use the presidency as a “bully pulpit” for homosexual causes. |
gee, it took ‘em long enough.
Maybe he was referring to the Islamic version of the Sermon.
bump
I was thinking he had it confused with brokeback mount.
Well, I think we can all admit... if it was a White guy, like say John McCain, saying the Sermon on the Mount justifies the Ten Commandments, he'd be stoned to death by Democrats and the MSM.
"Verily, you (and a trick) have the right to get the same in shekels as any married couple, especially if either of thee are in the public service. Blessed is the taxpayer."
He is undoubtedly thinking of Matthew 7:12, “The Golden Rule”, which is at the conclusion of The Sermon on the Mount. The application is, “If you were gay, wouldn’t you want to get married to your gay partner?”
Blessed is the Homo, for he shall inherit the fruits.
Oh but he’s mooslime.
I wish they’d apply that curious interpretation of the Golden Rule to my taxes.
OH but as another has said......who knows what those words mean today. They could have other meanings that we just do not understand. You have to take in the culture and context of the time and that Jesus may not literlly have existed and who know what he said. I mean it could mean that cause it does not say it does not mean that. Being dogmatic is boring and superficial. See where this type of thinking leads. Good Grief.
Beware of false prophets....they are wolves in sheep clothing.
The Bible states plainly that homosexual acts are wrong and considered an abomination in the eyes of God.
The Bible also states plainly that marriage is between a man and a woman.
And no verse in the entire Bible grants approval to a homosexual civil union.
Obama is a wolf in sheep’s clothing if he’s trying to twist the clear meaning of Scripture to make it fit the homosexual agenda.
The Sermon on Brokeback Mount? Barackback Mountain? LOL.
Obama is a wolf in sheep’s clothing”
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Shades of Jesse Jackson
More like a weasel in sheep's clothing.
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