Posted on 09/02/2008 5:42:53 AM PDT by suspects
ST. PAUL, Minn. - And you thought the Clinton-Obama convention was a soap opera.
Enter stage (far) right: The Sarah Palin Chronicles.
John McCain’s VP choice was already the fastest-breaking curveball American politics had seen in a generation before this Reuters report:
“The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said on Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child.”
“Faked” pregnancies. Teen sex. Government cover-ups. It’s like a bad episode of “Desperate Housewives,” except Gov. Palin is much hotter than Marcia Cross.
And she’s been the nominee for less than a week.
For normal people who don’t surf the fever swamps of the DailyKos and other liberal Web sites, the reference to faking a pregnancy has to do with a story invented by some lefty blogger that Trig Palin - Sarah’s newborn son who has Down syndrome - is actually the illegitimate son of the governor’s oldest daughter.
This idiotically offensive slur was demonstrably false - it took me less than 60 seconds to find a photo of a painfully-pregnant Gov. Palin from earlier this year - but pro-Obama activists like Andrew Sullivan and even some mainstream media outlets jumped on it.
And now, with the news of Bristol Palin’s pregnancy, the 2008 presidential campaign officially has more plot twists than an episode of “Lost.” It also has two legitimate stars: Barack Obama, descended from the heavens to heal our souls and deliver our nation; and Sarah Palin, who wandered in from the Alaska wilderness with a rifle under one arm and a baby in the other.
The Republicans figured out a strategy to deal with Oba-Messiah: the power of positive mockery. It worked so well that...
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What you said!
Vines' Expository Dictionary of the New Testament (p.455) says of "fornication" that it is illicit sexual intercourse which stands for and includes adultery and when used in the verb form PORNUEUO (Mark 10:19) Jesus quotes the Law saying "Do not commit adultery." According to Vines, this is literally, "Do not commit fornication." It is significant that Vines cites two verses (but only two) where it is "distinguished from [adultery]." In other words, the two were interchangeable in the context of the Law, which Jesus quoted.
When you stop to consider that Jesus’ admonition to not commit adultery is from Exodus 20:14, then going back to the HEBREW, you find that the Hebrew word na’aph means:
1) to commit adultery
a) (Qal)
1) to commit adultery
a) usually of man
1) always with wife of another
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But if you accept Vines’ interpretation, apparently Jesus didn’t know that, and he thought he was telling them not to fornicate when he quoted the commandment. That’s pretty silly.
Then there is Matthew 19:9, which says:
“And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except [it be] for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.”
If fornication is the same as adultery, please explain that one.
Where's the fun in that?!!!
(If LAZ was here, that's what he'd say...)
Yeah, old Vines is wrong. That’s what I thought you’d say.
Congratulations!!!
You got to cast the first stone.
How silly. It’s remarkable, though, when it’s “our guy” or “our gal” how no stones can be cast at all. Oh no. We’ll lower the bar before that happens.
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