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Posted By Redneck 1 year, 8 months ago in NewsSen. 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.
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Redneck1 year, 8 months ago
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Jesus teaches on a number of issues central to
the Christian life in the Sermon on the Mount: being
witnesses to the world, loving our enemies, honoring
marriage - but there is no instruction on same-sex unions.
As for St. Paul's writing in Romans, it is distinguished
not by its obscurity but by its clarity and consistency
with all of Christian teaching about the nature of
sexuality and marriage. Paul writes: "They [the
unrighteous] exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and
worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator
- who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave
them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged
natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the
men also abandoned natural relations with women and were
inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent
acts with other men, and received in themselves the due
penalty for their perversion." (Romans 1:24-27, NIV) cont.
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Redneck1 year, 8 months ago
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Obama also told the crowd that his support of abortion (he voted against banning partial-birth abortion, and against
notifying the parents of minors prior to their having an
abortion) and his support of same-sex unions do not make
him "less of a Christian.
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Tangent0011 year, 8 months ago
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Um, Christian teaching is neither clear nor consistent in regards to marriage and sexuality. The Bible is rife with examples of polygamy, incest, rape, even giving one's virgin daughter to be 'known' by several guests (all of which were at one time or another pleasing in the sight of God).
Christians pick and choose from both the Old and New Testaments. That another person's choices differ from your own doesn't make either of you 'less Christian'.
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cowboygrandpa1 year, 8 months ago
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Believing that all men judge themselves before God, that in his Holy presence one knows the real truth. I can only say I love my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ more than any human.
The ways of man lead to death, the way of God to life. Let each choose as he will. Do not try to make one walk in the ways of another.
Evil is it's own destruction, and salvation thru the Lord only.
I do not agree with homosexuality. Yet, I cannot hate those who do it. I may hate their acts but not them.
For I too sin and fall short and am only saved thru the grace of God in Jesus.
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SonOfTheMask1 year, 8 months ago
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You know...I was kind of laughing at that whole "Anti-Christ" tag. But, if he's suggesting that the Sermon on the Mount is Biblical validation of homosexuality...uhhh....
Okay, I re-read the article and I guess Obama doesn't favor "gay marriage" but "civil unions". So, I think he's basically trying to pitch "I'm a good Christian because gay marriage is wrong" while at the same time saying "I'm a good citizen because I think gays should have something similar to make them feel good."
Personally, I find that position hypocritical. It essentially says marriage is only good for Christians (crossing the boundary of state/church separation). While I am against homosexual civil marriage it is for secular reasons, not religious reasons.
Tsk tsk Mr. Obama.
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bfbac2171 year, 8 months ago
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Senator Obama seems to want to cherry pick the parts of the bible that he likes while disregarding other parts because they don't fit his idiolology.
If he thinks that supporting abortion does not make him 'less of a Christian' then I have to say that his understanding of what a Christian is has little in common with my own
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