Posted on 05/10/2012 5:04:55 AM PDT by IbJensen
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 9, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Barack Obama has flip-flopped on gay “marriage” for the second time, endorsing same-sex marriage in an interview today, in which he said his decision was motivated in part by his Christian faith and his belief in the Golden Rule.
“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.”
The president told the media his newly articulated position represents his private views, and that he believes each state should make its own decisions about marriage. However, he has publicly opposed state initiatives to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman in North Carolina and Minnesota. His remarks come one day after North Carolina amended its constitution to affirm marriage is the union of one man and one woman.
Fox News anchor Sheppard Smith greeted the president’s statement by saying, “President Obama, now in the 21st century.”
In the ABC interview, Obama highlighted his service to the LGBT political agenda, including “rolling back Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” “no longer defending the Defense Against Marriage Act,” and supporting civil unions. However, he said his personal relationships with homosexuals convinced him he had to go further.
“Malia and Sasha, they have friends whose parents are same-sex couples,” he added.
In today’s statement, Obama appeared to flip-flop on the issue of marriage for a second time. In 1996, while running for Illinois state senate against Alice Palmer, Barack Obama filled out a questionnaire from the homosexual activist group IMPACT stating, “I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.” His aides later disavowed it.
As a U.S. Senate candidate in 2004, running against Alan Keyes, Obama said, “I’m a Christian. I do believe that tradition and my religious beliefs say that marriage is something sanctified between a man and a woman.” He maintained that position in the 2008 presidential race.
Yet Obama had signaled his views on same-sex “marriage” would “evolve” since September 2010.
His most recent announcement followed closely on the heels of Vice President Joe Biden and Education Secretary Arne Duncan endorsing same-sex “marriage.”
Fox News Channel reports that according to numerous Democratic sources, the timing of today’s interview was not planned but came as a result of the vice president’s “gaffe.”
Obama’s likely 2012 rival Mitt Romney clarified his position in return, saying, “My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman…I don’t intend to make any adjustments at this point – or ever, by the way.”
A transcript of the president’s remarks follows this video.
Transcript:
I have to tell you, as I said, I’ve been going through an evolution on this issue. I’ve always been adamant that gay and lesbian Americans should be treated fairly and equally. That’s why in addition to everything we’ve done in this administration — rolling back Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, so that outstanding Americans can serve our country, whether it is no longer defending the Defense Against Marriage Act which tried to federalize what has historically been state law — I’ve stood on side of broader equality for the LGBT community. And, I hesitated on gay marriage in part because I thought civil unions would be sufficient. That that was something that would give people hospital visitation rights and other elements that we take for granted. And I 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. But I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage. At a certain point, 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.
According to ABC, he continued:
Some of this is generational. You know when I go to college campuses, sometimes I talk to college Republicans who think that I have terrible policies on the economy, on foreign policy, but are very clear that when it comes to same sex equality or, you know, sexual orientation that they believe in equality. They are much more comfortable with it. You know, Malia and Sasha, they have friends whose parents are same-sex couples. There have been times where Michelle and I have been sitting around the dinner table and we’re talking about their friends and their parents and Malia and Sasha, it wouldn’t dawn on them that somehow their friends’ parents would be treated differently. It doesn’t make sense to them and frankly, that’s the kind of thing that prompts a change in perspective.
This is something that, you know, we’ve talked about over the years and she, you know, she feels the same way, she feels the same way that I do. And that is that, in the end the values that I care most deeply about and she cares most deeply about is how we treat other people and, you know, I, you know, we are both practicing Christians and obviously this position may be considered to put us at odds with the views of others 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, you know, treat others the way you would want to be treated. And I think that’s what we try to impart to our kids and that’s what motivates me as president and I figure the most consistent I can be in being true to those precepts, the better I’ll be as a as a dad and a husband and hopefully the better I’ll be as president.
Obama’s re-election?
“Obama, call me. I’ll explain Christianity to you. Maybe you’ll get saved and start loving unborn babies. “
and BORN aborted babies.
They’ve made it pretty clear with their policies that infanticide is A-OK with them.
The latest is the requirement of registration of the unborn as “visitors” to the White House.
This is a great opportunity for a killer question:
Obama, you’ve invoked the name of Jesus in your opinion that same sex marriage should be accepted, do you believe that Islam or Mohammed can also be referenced in the same manner?
I’d really like to see him squirm on that one...
Thank you Lord for sending people like Obama to us... He is a great example for us and his description of truth reconfirms and strenghtens my faith in Your Truth. his is passing and fleeting. Praise be to God!
In Islam, Jesus is considered a true prophet of allah but not the divine son of God. So basically, if obama says Jesus says, he is in effect saying allah says. Pop corn. Watch : )
I'll agree with that.
Thanks for the excellent post.
Our elected leaders have pandered to We as a Nation have cursed YHvH after His warnings. After years of pagan idolatry, YHvH allowed the hedge On September 11, 2001, YHvH allowed a breach in our hedge of protection. The stock market fell 7% on Sept 17, 2001 Seven years later on the 29th of Elul, Seven years after the attack on September 11, 2001, In 721 BCE, the walls of Israel were breached. Isaiah 9:10 "The bricks have fallen down, This nation was dedicated in St Paul's chapel The New York Stock Exchange was Ten years after the initial breach I love metaphors; We have voted in leaders to bring about our own destruction.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
the most perverse and perverted agenda.
We have called down on ourselves the curse of Isaiah 9:11-21
of protection to be lowered and the nation of Israel
was attacked by the Assyrians.
The following day, Democrat Tom Daschle called down a curse on America.
On September 11, 2004, Democrat John Edwards repeated the curse on America.
On February 24, 2009 Democrat Barack Hussein Obama repeated the curse for the third time.
(Matthew 18:16; 2 Cr 13:1; Deu 19:15 & Amos 3:12)
( 29 day of the month of Elul)
it fell again 7 %
At the end of each Sabbatical year,
all debts are made worthless.
We elected a man to lead this country whose
whole persona is built on lies.
The nation's leaders with pride and in arrogance
of heart cursed YHvH.
See Isaiah 9:10.
Isaiah 9:9 .....Asserting in pride and in arrogance of heart:
But we will rebuild with smooth stones;
The sycamores have been cut down,
But we will replace them with cedars."
located at the corner of Ground Zero.
The Sycamore tree at St Paul's chapel
was destroyed by a steel beam from
the World Trade Center.
chartered under a Sycamore tree.
the nation of Israel was attacked
and overrun by the Assyrians.
Half the nation was captured
and taken off to imprisonment.
they teach those who have ears to hear.
For more information buy the book Harbinger
by Jonathan Cahn if my people,
who are called by my name,
shall humble themselves,
and pray, and seek my face,
and turn from their wicked ways;
then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin,
and will heal their land.
Seems like Obama is ‘cherry picking’ the Bible.
What you said! Obama is DISGUSTING.
She did say it best. Thanks for posting that.
How about is based on Lot, and the rule of Sodom?
Yep, it is. It's also hypocritical , disgusting and vile.
Our country is not being healed because as a nation WE ARE NOT REPENTING . America as a whole is holding on to the Doctrine of Balaam
We are perishing from lack of knowledge , everyone is doing what they think is right in their own eyes . We are tossing away our heritage and exchanging the truth for a lie.
Our Constitution , our Bill of Rights , the foundations of our freedoms in this country are all based on the moral teachings of the Torah.
Until the people repent there will be no change and we will just keep marching into captivity. The "Church" meaning all those who say they are in it better wake out of their slumber because JUDGEMENT STARTS IN THE HOUSE OF GOD.Repent means CHANGE YOUR WAYS .
The next Shemita is 2015
2015 there will be Eclipses: Total Solar-3/20/2015-29 Adar 5775-Immediately precedes God’s declared start of the year OBTW this coming Solar Eclipse May 20, 2012 Amen !
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
Total Lunar-4/4/2015-15 Nissan 5775-Pesach
Partial Solar-9/13/2015-29 Elul 5775-Immediately precedes the start of the Jewish civil year
Total Lunar-9/28/2015-15 Tishrei 5776-Succot
is Yom Jerusalem:
the day Jerusalem was re-captured in 1967.
Thanks ,I hadn’t noticed the correlation of the coming eclipse.
Isa 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
Isa 61:2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD,(fulfilled Luke 4:16-21) and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; (not yet fulfilled)
It was a year of Jubilee when the first part was fulfilled (Luke 4:19 is just another way of saying Jubilee ) The muslims took Jerusalem on a year of Jubilee , WWII ended on a year of Jubilee birthing the nation of Israel , the 1967 6 day war which recaptured Jerusalem was in a year of Jubilee . The 2015 shemita is also a year of Jubilee
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