Posted on 02/12/2015 5:12:44 AM PST by wagglebee
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 11, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Barack Obama is denying an account by a close adviser that he lied about his views on gay “marriage” to get elected president in 2008. In an interview yesterday, Obama said he didn't lie; it's just that he was misunderstood.
However, Obama admitted he supported government-enforced recognition of homosexuality, and “it was frustrating to me” that he had to “square that with what were a whole bunch of religious sensitivities out there.”
Obama's close campaign operative and senior adviser David Axelrod wrote that Obama always favored redefining marriage but lied about it in order not to alienate black pastors and voters in North Carolina.
Obama strongly supported same-sex “marriage” in his 1996 run for Illinois state Senate, responding to a questionnaire by saying, “I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.”
But he changed his stance, because “oposition to gay marriage was particularly strong in the black church,” Axelrod wrote in his new memoir, Believer: My Forty Years in Politics.
By 2004, when he ran for U.S. Senate against Alan Keyes, Obama said, “I’m a Christian. And so, although I try not to have my religious beliefs dominate or determine my political views on this issue, I do believe that tradition, and my religious beliefs say that marriage is something sanctified between a man and a woman.”
He maintained his public opposition to gay “marriage” – and backing of civil unions – through the 2008 campaign. But Axelrod wrote that he did so because his campaign manager, Jim Messina, warned that swing state North Carolina would not elect a candidate who favored redefining marriage.
Axelrod wrote that he had “no doubt” that Obama had stated his “heartfelt belief” in the 1996 campaign, and that Obama's noises, beginning in late 2010, that his attitudes might "evolve” on gay “marriage” was a purely calculated political stance.
“If Obama’s views were 'evolving' publicly, they were fully evolved behind closed doors,” Axelrod wrote. “The president was champing at the bit to announce his support for the right of gay and lesbian couples to wed.”
In an interview yesterday, Obama said that Axelrod got it all wrong. He never lied.
“I think David is mixing up my personal feelings with my position on the issue,” he told Ben Smith of BuzzFeed. “I think the notion that somehow I was always in favor of marriage per se isn’t quite accurate.”
“I always felt that same-sex couples should be able to enjoy the same rights, legally, as anybody else, and so it was frustrating to me not to, I think, be able to square that with what were a whole bunch of religious sensitivities out there,” he said.
He said that he felt civil unions his way of “squaring the circle.”
While his campaign previously claimed that someone else wrote the 1996 statement on behalf of redefining marriage, Obama apparently did not make that claim in the interview. Instead, he told Smith that “the old questionnaire…is an example of struggling with what was a real issue at the time, which is, how do you make sure that people’s rights are enjoyed and these religious sensitivities were taken into account?”
Obama's revolving rhetorical reality has alarmed many. The Huffington Post counted 16 separate times that Obama or his administration lied to the American people about his position on same-sex “marriage” – often claiming his opposition was built upon his strong Christian faith.
That point bolsters critics, who say Obama's references to religion are a political ploy. Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson of The Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny (BOND), a strong voice for traditional values in the black community, told LifeSiteNews.com, “A lot of Christians wouldn’t vote for him if they didn’t think he was a Christian.”
But if Obama's views have changed, has his faith changed, too? Columnist David Harsanyi wondered why no one in the media asked about this apparent contradiction in 2010. “Why doesn’t someone ask Obama what’s changed about his Christianity that brought about this evolution?” he asked. “What’s clear is that Obama isn’t shy about pulling in religion when it suits his political needs. Christianity is a means of bolstering progressive ideals.”
Writer Dan Calabrese blamed mainstream media bias, especially on social issues. “Why won't the media ask him about it? Two reasons.”
“1. They already know the answer. He lied to fool people like black pastors into getting out the vote for him,” he wrote. “2. They don't see anything wrong with it. They think it's the job of black pastors to support Democrats and not to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, so if they stubbornly insist on doing the latter at the expense of the former, then they deserve to be lied to.” (Emphasis in original.)
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Everything Obama says is a lie, including the “the” and the “and”.
With kudos to Dorothy Parker.
This may be the year Obama comes out as being gay.
Notice how the press is amazingly uncurious about Reggie Love’s book.
Since when has a US President needed a “body man”?
"It's not me, it's you!'
Oh yeah, that'll work!
Blargh.
What is significant is that it was a political decision and that just a few short years ago politicians were afraid the culture wasn’t ready for same sex marriage. Suddenly, we have a Scotus trying to tell us that the culture has flipped, and it’s only right for them to impose same sex marriage on us by judicial fiat.
This is directly in the face of vote upon vote by the people who have as a collective body said they do NOT want their culture to change in such a harmful direction.
Hear that: DESPITE VOTES of individuals in great masses and state-by-state, the only reason this is before the Scotus in the first place is because judges are over-ruling “We the People”.
That said, it is entirely rational for citizens to reject such a change in their culture. Additionally, the Constitution leaves such a decision to the states or to the people. The people have spoken.
How does anyone not understand OBAMA IS A LIAR!!?
Now there's a role model for America's youth. /sarc
Why didn't Brian Williams think of that excuse.
And I ask, how can anyone who professes to be a Christian give such a response? How can anyone who is a Christ follower not only support homosexuality, but go way, way over the top to advocate and push for its practice. In fact, Obama is now making homosexuality a cornerstone of his foreign policy. And in so doing, he disgraces this once great country.
So Obama lies about being a Christian as he lied about his kinetic passion to not only support, but to promote the practice of homosexuality.
Obama is a fraud, a con man, and a liar.
You are preaching the gospel. The push for homosexual marriage strikes me as designed to remove the legal distinction between men and women. Homosexual marriage is a big step towards getting rid of those archaic "baby boy" or "baby girl" designations that are put on the birth certificates.
I think that's the real goal. We're already seeing the push for the unisex restrooms, so I don't think I'm being crazy here.
The fact that the libs will get incest, pedophelia, bestiality, and three (or four or five...) way marriage thrown in is just icing on the cake for them.
THAT’S the modus operandi and purpose of PC
WE..ll,
There he goes again!
I am curious about why Axelrod wrote this. It seems out of character. for an Obamabot
The sad thing is the trends in the popular voting referendums aren’t positive. For instance, North Carolina passing its amendment by 61% in 2012. Sounds like a great victory, right? But that is only where CA was when it passed prop. 22 by 61% in 2000.
If you would have told someone in 2000 that in 12 years NC would be where CA is on the issue, they would have called the guys with the big butterfly nets to collect you. In 2008 CA passed prop. 8 by 52%, losing 9% in 8 years on the issue. In 20 years I don’t think there is a state anywhere that couldn’t just repeal their amendment by a popular vote, at least if the trend continues. Not that our black robed masters are ever going to let that happen. But if I can see the trend in actual voting measures, you can bet political slime can see it too.
Freegards
No, you lied. You’re the lyingest liar who ever lied his way into office. You lie about everything. You lie when it doesn’t matter. You lie even when the truth better serves you. Your lies aren’t convincing, logical, or excusable. You can’t even fall back on the old “I told a little white lie so as not to hurt feelings” tactic. As a Narcissistic Sociopath you are indifferent to the feelings of others.
Now then....what were you saying?
My guess is that he's doing it for the Clintons.
Hillary almost certainly has something on Axelrod and she needs to be able to say that Zero lied.
Oh for crying out loud, it’s like dealing with a small child who tells a lie to cover a lie but sounds so pathetic.
How long can this go on until people and especially the media wake the hell up?
The man is out of his mind as is some who surround him and yet the media lets him get away with this crap.
He is positioning himself as a hildebeast backer without being obvious about it (in a very obvious fashion).
Obama needed the Black Christian vote to win.
Pastors lied on his behalf that he opposed abortion and homosexuality.
“what difference does it matter at this point in time anyhow? SUCKERS!”
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