Barack Does Not Know His Bible
Posted by: Matt Kauble | 03/03/2008 5:00 PM
In a recent comment Barack Obama stated that Jesus endorsed same-sex marriage in the Sermon on the Mount passage found in Matthew's Gospel. (http://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/chuck_smith/sg/mount.html) In fact in Matthew 5 verses 27 through 32, Jesus elevates adultery to a thought crime and describes why God created marriage, which taken together seem to undermine Barack Obama's sly attempt to put words in Christ's mouth. In versus 13 through 16 Jesus calls on His followers to be both Salt and Light in this world, again undermining Barack's point.
Anyway here is the article that got me to write this post...
Obama: Sermon on Mount OKs Same-Sex Unions
Monday, March 3, 2008 8:04 AM
By: Terence P. Jeffrey
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) told a crowd at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio, Sunday that he believes the Sermon on the Mount justifies his support for legal recognition of same-sex unions. He also told the crowd that his position in favor of legalized abortion does not make him "less Christian."
"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." (See video here) St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans condemns homosexual acts as unnatural and sinful.
Obama's mention of the Sermon on the Mount in justifying legal recognition of same-sex unions may have been a reference to the Golden Rule: "Do to others what you would have them do to you." Or it may have been a reference to another famous line: "Do not judge, or you too will be judged."
The Sermon, recorded in the Gospel of Matthew, includes the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes, an endorsement of scriptural moral commandments ("anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven"), and condemnations of murder, divorce and adultery. It also includes a warning: "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves."...
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/Obama_same_sex/2008/03/03/77289.html?s=al&promo_code=4654-1
Allen Wilson is exactly the kind of person who would like another Bush term. I applaud the SGV...
Ralph Denney denney won the 76th Republican nomination in 2006 for state assembly despite his opposition to the Defense of Marriage Act..How did he do it..He hid his orientation and he conceiled his agenda