Posted on 01/21/2013 4:03:07 PM PST by NYer
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 21, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Barack Obama forcefully advanced the homosexual agenda in his second inaugural address this afternoon, saying redefining marriage must be enacted “by [God's] people here on earth."
“We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths – that all of us are created equal – is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall,” he said.
The 1969 Stonewall riots, in which homosexuals in drag pelted and attempted to immolate police for raiding a Mafia-run gay bar, are considered by many the genesis of the modern homosexual political movement.
“Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law – for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well,” the president said.
The president endorsed same-sex “marriage” in May, saying he was motivated in part by his Christian faith and his belief in the Golden Rule.
Although the president trumpeted his support for redefining marriage during the presidential campaign, he promised to leave the issue to be settled by the states. However, his decision to include gay 'marriage' in an inaugural address alongside issues such as green energy, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and robust entitlement programs, which he has pledged to actively champion, suggests it may be part of the president's legislative, or administrative, agenda.
The president wove homosexual activism into multiple aspects of the inaugural ceremonies.
A clergyman who supports the homosexual movement gave the benediction in place of a pastor who supports the traditional family.
Luis León, the rector of St. John's Episcopal Church just across the street from the White House, has been described by MSNBC as a “pro-gay Episcopal priest.”
In his benediction, Leon said: “We pray for Your blessing, because without it, suspicion, despair, and fear of those different from us will be our rule of life." León said all people are created the same, “whether brown, black or white...gay or straight.”
Leon replaced Rev. Louie Giglio, who was pressured out of giving the benediction by homosexual activists who had discovered a sermon he delivered in the 1990s offering a “Christian response to homosexuality.”
In that sermon Giglio had said, “We must lovingly but firmly respond to the aggressive agenda of not all, but of many in the homosexual community.”
At another juncture in the inaugural festivities, poet Richard Blanco earned the distinction of becoming the first gay Hispanic poet ever to read a poem during an inauguration.
The president began his oration by quoting the Declaration of Independence's dictum that all men “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
“Today we continue a never-ending journey to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time,” said the president.
In a statement Live Action founder Lila Rose encouraged the president to recognize the unalienable right to life of the unborn, and to work to defend it.
“President Obama, as you are sworn in today, millions of Americans have already begun to mourn the over 55 million children killed by abortion since 1973,” Rose wrote on her Facebook page, referencing many regional pro-life events before this weekend's March for Life. “History will judge you – and everyone in public office – by what you chose to do and by what you did not do. Stop funding the biggest abortion chain, Planned Parenthood, with over half a billion tax dollars a year. Stop advocating for abortion as a so-called 'right, a solution to the needs of women.”
“Like you saw the preciousness of the children tragically killed at Sandy Hook, see the preciousness of the child in the womb and help heal our broken nation,” she concluded.
Here is where he is coming from...
The Secrets Gay Men Don’t Want Straight People to Know
This is why Moochie says Obama is stinky in the morning...it ain't just smoke.
Yes, it's disgusting...but we must know our enemy. And one front of the enemy is the Gay Liberation Army and its affiliates.
That line got a lot of laughs but I am not sure how many of them got the Machiavellian connection.
I've chatted with him about Obama, and he was dead serious.
Thanks NYer.
"If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me" (Psalm 66:18).
What a phony.
Yeah, we need to redefine it back to “a union between one man and one woman symbolizing the unity between Christ and the church, which is His bride.”
Obama and his little alliterative flourishes.
He likely will.
How does he propose to pay for ss and govt benies for this group of people. Insane, delusional and small is the mind that thinks this is about hospital visitation rights! The money is the true driving force.
“....if the majority of the people in a society says it’s between a man a woman only....”
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Is that what they’re saying?
I understand that over 50% of the population define marriage between a male and a female but that the same people do not object if Joe and John want to get hitched before a justice of the peace.
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"God's people"? He's got leprsoy of the heart and mind. He is an abomination.
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"God's people"? He's got leprsoy of the heart and mind. He is an abomination.
Always speaking about being on some journey ...to something. But we’re not quite sure what it is.
Today I really felt that this man has got to be a homosexual ...he is just that fervent about this issue.
Sigh. Really miss the days of having a “manly” president. Was watching old inauguration speeches of Bush senior, Reagan, etc ... I was almost in tears.
Still has his priorities mixed up, I see. Nevermind the economy/jobs ... let’s help the gays. o.O
The Church doesn't control the media and a lot of those Hispanic voters don't really understand his anti-life/pro-gay views ... they just vote the way the media tells them they should vote.
as ohole is a communist, i understand why he says it this way.
“...if the majority of the people in a society says it’s between a man a woman only, then that is what it is.”
The definition of marriage the state uses to recognize the institution is whatever judges, pols, or 51% of the voting public think it can be at any one time. That’s it, that’s all it will ever be in the modern era. It was always a danger that it woud depart from the actual definition. Indeed, some faiths will never accept remarriage after civil divorce, while the state has already done so for many, many years.
‘Now, since the family and human society at large spring from marriage, these men will on no account allow matrimony to be the subject of the jurisdiction of the Church. Nay, they endeavor to deprive it of all holiness, and so bring it within the contracted sphere of those rights which, having been instituted by man, are ruled and administered by the civil jurisprudence of the community. Wherefore it necessarily follows that they attribute all power over marriage to civil rulers, and allow none whatever to the Church; and, when the Church exercises any such power, they think that she acts either by favor of the civil authority or to its injury. Now is the time, they say, for the heads of the State to vindicate their rights unflinchingly, and to do their best to settle all that relates to marriage according as to them seems good.’
—Pope Leo XIII, 1880
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