Obama has just announced that he now supports homosexual marriage. He is the first sitting President to say that.
He does not explain, though, on what basis he formerly considered it immoral. If it’s OK now, why wasn’t it OK before? He doesn’t tell us how bad became good, how sin transformed into righteousness.
I’m assuming he previously thought it immoral, for if he had thought it moral, and nothing to be ashamed of, why wouldn’t he have supported it from the start?
With any shift in morality we should demand a definition of morality and an acknowledgment of one’s source and standard of it.
In his announcement speech, he implied that it was the monogamous aspect of same-sex couples, who are faithfully devoted to one another, which entitles them to marriage rights.
So, now, Obama is judging homosexuals who have multiple partners as immoral, and monogamous couples as moral? He’s implying that there is something immoral about homosexuals who have more than one partner, but those who are monogamous have earned the right to be married.
Where does he get his shifting moral standards from, how does he define morality, and what’s next?
You could have at least some respect for a man who had the integrity to answer that.
May 10, 2012 at 6:58 am
Why is it I’m not surprised that Obama has finally ‘come out of the closet’? Pardon the use of this term but it is apt in his case. It’s quite clear that he never believed the Bible in the first place despite his mouthy platitudes about it during his campaign. Obama’s shiftiness isn’t new. It was first observed during the campaign.
Well, we are in the age of ‘everybody doing what is right in his own eyes’. He’s forgotten that he has a Judge to face when he dies.
As for those using him as a ‘moral’ compass instead of God and His Word, it’s obvious where they might end up. Obama has done what we term here in Nigeria ‘unmasking the masquerade’ beneath his natty suits and smooth words.
He never expected God’s opinion on marriage to have won such a landslide at the North Carolina polls.
May 11, 2012 at 12:47 pm
Franklin Graham: Obama shaking his fist at God
By Michael Gordon – mgordon@charlotteobserver.com
In another provocative comment aimed at Barack Obama, evangelist Franklin Graham on Thursday accused the president of having “shaken his fist” at God by changing his position on same-sex marriage.
“It grieves me that our president would now affirm same-sex marriage, though I believe it grieves God even more,” Graham said in a prepared statement.
“This is a sad day for America. May God help us.”
On Tuesday, North Carolina became the 31st state to ratify a constitutional amendment designed to block same-sex marriage.
The next day, amid an online clamor to move the Democratic National Convention from Charlotte, the president changed his longstanding position against same-sex unions.
“At a certain point, I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead an affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married,” Obama told ABC News.
He said he had changed his mind after having talked with his family and friends.
Graham, however, said God created and defined marriage.
It “should not be defined by presidents or polls, governors or the media. The definition was set long ago and changing legislation or policy will never change God’s definition.”
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/05/10/2055999/franklin-graham-obama-shaking.html#storylink=cpy
May 12, 2012 at 4:19 am
Interesting coincidence: Last night we were reading Franklin Graham’s statement, “Obama shaking his fist at God”, and at that moment there was an earthquake and we all ran out of the building. Just a small tremor, but an interesting thing to happen at that very moment as we pondered on what it means for some slippery little fellow, or anyone, to shake their fists at God.