Obscure

Matthew 7:12

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

According to President Obama,

“I’ve just concluded that for me personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married,” Obama told ABC News reporter Robin Roberts in an interview to air this evening.

He added that his wife, Michelle, agreed with him. “We’ve talked about it over the years and she, you know, she feels the same way,” he said.

“We are both practicing Christians and obviously this position may be considered to put us at odds with the views of others,” Obama stated, “but, you know, when we think about our faith, the thing at root that we think about is, not only Christ sacrificing Himself on our behalf, but it’s also the Golden Rule.

He explained his foot-dragging reticence to support full same-sex “marriage” by saying he “was sensitive to the fact that, for a lot of people, the word marriage was something that evokes very powerful traditions – religious beliefs and so forth.”

However, Obama had previously implied the Bible supports homosexual unions. “I believe in civil unions that allow a same-sex couple to visit each other in a hospital or transfer property to each other,” he said in 2008. “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.”

I find it interesting that, at best, President Obama is “mixing metaphors”.  He states that passages in Romans are “obscure” regarding same-sex marriage, and yet forgets an entire group of biblical passages that refer to male and female, man and wife, husband and wife and marital union between two people of opposite sex.

1 Corinthians 7:2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

Hebrews 13:4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

If those two verses aren’t enough – I purposefully chose New Testament verses – then search for other verses about marriage in the Bible;  Genesis 1:27-28, Genesis 2:21-25, Malachi 2:14,15 just for starters.

What’s God’s description of “sexually immoral”?  

1 Corinthians 6:9–11
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.  

I think that our President also mixes his use of religious beliefs.  He can’t quote or reference a Bible verse on one hand and then throw out the rest of the Bible because it’s uncomfortable or unpopular.  Supporters of same-sex marriage like to call those who oppose it “religious bigots” and “haters” and “bullies”.  And yet, they conveniently use obscure Bible verses to show that Jesus would have approved of marriage between two men or two women.  

God is very clear on the issue of marriage, sexual relations, salvation and what HE considers sin.  The Bible is either inerrant and infallible or it’s just a nice piece of out-dated literature.  You can’t have it both ways.  You can’t support some verses of the Bible and throw the rest out with the recycling.