Posted by
Augsal on Friday, March 07, 2008 2:25:15 PM
Recent remarks by Sen. Obama on homosexual marriage, abortion and his “Christian” faith have become old news, but I would like to revive the issue because of its importance in our getting to know this man, who thus far is still unknown to a majority of Americans. A frightening thought really!! First, in Obama’s own words so I don’t get accused of misquoting the man:
Homosexual Mariage:
“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.”
Abortion:
“I think that the bottom line is that in the end, I think women, in consultation with their pastors, and their doctors, and their family, are in a better position to make these decisions than some bureaucrat in Washington. That’s my view. Again, I respect people who may disagree, but I certainly don’t think it makes me less Christian. Okay.”
His Christian Faith:
“I am a Christian. I am adevoutChristian. I’ve been a member of the same church for 20 years, pray to Jesus every night, and try to go to church as much as I can when they are not working me. Used to go quite often.”
I am, of course, approaching Sen. Obama from a Conservative Catholic perspective, but that being said, I find his opinions and his actions to be very troubling to say the least. First of all, to simply say that we should refer to the Sermon on the Mount and let the dictum, (I am assuming) “Do unto others” be our basis for instituting homosexual unions goes beyond logic. What of Jesus’ words on Adultery, and Divorce? Sen. Obama’s take on Christianity is one of convenience. Just like a lawyer to twist and turn the words of someone to your own advantage. And I would like to remind Sen.Obama that it was NOT “some bureaucrat in Washington” which brought us 50 million dead babies since Roe v. Wade, but the Supreme Court. As a lawyer I thought he would have known that by now.
As for Abortion his “laisez faire” style of Christianity rears its ugly head again. In other words Jesus has told us to be absolutely tolerant of everything and everyone regardless of the consequences, even if it means killing an infant that has survived an abortion. It’s kill and kill again as far as Sen. Obama is concerned. When Sen. Obama was State Senator in Illinois he voted three times against the “Born Alive Infant Protection Act” and refused to support Anti-Partial-Birth Abortion bills. But to deny aid to a baby that has survived a labor-induced abortion goes beyond the realm of common sense. Is this the “do unto others” type of compassion I should expect in my old age if his kind of logic deems me undeserving of life? Mychal Massie, noted African-American Conservative wrote the following:
Obama’s support for murdering children transcends his support for the extermination of unborn babies. While holding elected office in Illinois, he opposed S.B. 1093 the "Born Alive Infant Protection Act" on the grounds that the measure didn't include a "life and health of the mother" provision. He then refused to support two subsequent bans that did include exceptions for the safety of the mother. He refused to support anti-partial-birth abortion bills H.B. 383 and S.B. 230.
He refused to support S.B. 1095, which created a cause of action for harm or neglect that would come to a child "born alive" after a labor-induced abortion, supporting instead the barbaric practice of letting "aborted alive" babies die a grotesquely inhuman and excruciatingly torturous death by being tossed into a pan and left to die. While in the Illinois Legislature, he voted against S.B. 1661, also part of the "Abortion Alive Protection Act," which created the "Induced Birth Infant Liability Act."
Sen.Obama is one frightening individual in this writer’s eyes and if he becomes President with a Socialist Democrat-controlled Congress America will become a horror-show, something akin to Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Actually Soviet Russia is probably what Sen. Obama is hoping for.