The gospel according to St. Barack?

In Robert Bolt's great play A Man for All Seasons, medieval English statesman Sir Thomas More says, "the American media would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount."

Whoops, Sir Thomas actually said that about the nobility of England, not the U.S. media, but there's little doubt the American press would be snoring right beside them. After all, the media just snored through Barack Obama's abuse of the Sermon of the Mount to justify same-sex civil unions.
 
"People who are gay and lesbian should be treated with dignity and respect and the state should not discriminate against them," said Obama on Sunday in a campaign speech at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio. "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 .... 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."
 
Don't miss that last clause. Barack Obama is going beyond twisting Scripture to justify sin. He is also telling America how to interpret the Bible, the founding document of Western civilization and the foundation of America's Constitution -- by cherrypicking. In Obama's formulation, some verses count more than others, and he is willing to invoke the authority of Scripture to support policies based on his personal preferences.
 
This is explosive stuff, especially for a politician trying to reach across party lines to win support from religion-minded voters. Given the prominence of candidates' faith in this election, you'd think the media would be all over this story. Not quite. Our review shows that the sparse coverage of Obama's speech falls into three categories:
 
1. Reports on what Obama said about homosexual civil unions being justified by the Sermon on the Mount, but buried deep in the story: (2)
• Washington Post political blog "The Trail"
• Los Angeles Times political blog "Top of the Ticket"
 
2. Reports on Obama's views on civil unions, but no mention of the Sermon: (1)
• Dayton Daily News
 
3. Reports on only Obama's preferred message from the speech, that he's a "devout Christian," not a Muslim, or in one case (Dallas Morning News) that he's an inspiration to biracial families: (8)
• Associated Press, in four stories
• The Columbus Dispatch
• The Houston Chronicle
• The New York Post
• The Dallas Morning News
 
At least eight major media organs had reporters covering Obama's speech, and together they filed 11 stories. Not a single newspaper ran a story reporting that Obama said his support of homosexual civil unions is justified by the Sermon on the Mount, and that he chose to reject the counsel of the Book of Romans. Imagine if Mike Huckabee had cited Romans to justify opposition to civil unions. Wouldn't The New York Times have put the story on the front page, complete with dire warnings of impending theocracy?
 
The Culture and Media Institute sees two possible explanations for this coverage. Either the media fail to recognize the significance of Obama twisting the meaning of the Sermon on the Mount and rejecting the Book of Romans, or they are covering up for their preferred candidate.
 
In Bolt's play Sir Thomas More also said, "I think that when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos."
 
Barack Obama has just given us a good look into his own private conscience. Americans deserve the opportunity to decide whether Obama as president would lead us into the heady kingdom of Change, or send the country to Hell in a handbasket.
 
Professional responsibility should impel the media to cover this story.

Senator Obama (D-Illinois) boldly declared in a campaign speech recently that states should legalize "same-sex unions" for homosexuals.  "If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount," says Obama. "Which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, more central than an obscure passage in Romans."

I would like to know what part of the books of Romans is Obscure for him??!!

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%201:%2026-32;&version=9;

i find nothing obscure on this passage it is quite blunt  Same Sex relationships are an abomination in gods eyes!!

P.S. find any version and the message is clear in any translation on those verses!!

http://www.biblegateway.com/

forget it, man

those liberals will twist the bible whatever they want to fit in their agendas

Just remember what Jesus said about whoever wants to add in or take away anything in the bible.

kmcheng said:

forget it, man

those liberals will twist the bible whatever they want to fit in their agendas

Just remember what Jesus said about whoever wants to add in or take away anything in the bible.

He didn't twist it.  He'd need to have some idea wtf he was talking about to twist it.  He just offered up bamboozly bs hoping no one would bother checking the text and relying on the fact that the greater part of his far left audience wouldn't know what he was talking about in the first place.  he was right.

Pretty bizarre how he has run a secular evangelical campaign... pretty telling as his chickens are coming home to roost. 

I wonder if as these stories (Wright, Ayres, his wife never being proud of Anmerica, his refulsal to wear the lapel pin etc etc) come out and his electability sinks the Super Delegates will waver and choose Hillary and split the party... or if they won't and they nominate a lamb.... pun intended.

kmcheng said:

forget it, man

those liberals will twist the bible whatever they want to fit in their agendas

Just remember what Jesus said about whoever wants to add in or take away anything in the bible.

kmcheng,

That is part of the problem with our country today. We christians have decided that it is not worth the fight to fight for the Truth. We christians have decided to not speak-up or speak-out against the apostacy that is being tought by Oprah Winfrey, Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Creflo Dollar, Paula White, and many other pastors today.

It appears that we christians have become cowards and don't want to be persecuted by the media or by our bias society. Satan is speaking loud and clear and he seems to have scared us to death. The Bible says that we have not been given the Spirit of fear, but the full Spirit of God.

The Bible also tells us in John 3 that people want to remain in the darkness of their sin because they do not want to be exposed as the sinners they really are. People want to think that they are better off being self-reliant for everything, including salvation. People want to continue believing the lie that Satan told Eve in the Garden of Eden - that they can be their own God and that they don't need God for anything.

well, yes, and that includes me also. Let's face it, we don't want to be hated, so from time to time we kind of easy on the truth to keep people's love.

PS: I don't know much about Al Sharpton's preaching, but I like what he stands on the social issues.

Others are either new age followers, prosperity gospel preachers (you missed Joel Osteen and TD Jakes by the way), or just teachings that come out of nowhere.