Scott Yesterday I had to run for an errand so I was unable to conclude my response to your post.
Scott you said that “Obama believes in abortion and believes in gay marriage.” I do not know what you exactly mean by this because your claim is vague. I know you purposefully chose to word your assertion vaguely because this is exactly what republicans do. To believe in something could mean to acknowledge the existence of such thing and it could also mean to support such thing. If you meant to say that Obama acknowledges the existence of abortion then you’re right. You and I also acknowledge the existence of abortion. But if you meant to say that Obama supports abortion then you’re dead and dishonestly wrong. There were abortions before Obama became President and there will abortion regardless who is in the White House.
Obama is a family man with two beautiful daughters and would never encourage his daughters to under abortion if the daughters chose otherwise. What Obama says is that it is wrong to make abortion a crime through legislation because such law will lead to loss of more lives. No law will ever stop abortion rather women would resort to dangerous means and sources to get abortion which may lead to both the death of the woman and the unborn any way. Just like the drug law have led to many more deaths than it have saved, just as the alcohol prohibition of the 1800s failed. Yes I do believe that abortion is ugly and a self moral and religious issue. But we cannot legislate on self morality; remember that every abortion starts with a positive pregnancy which starts mostly with unprotected legitimate sex or rape, or fornication. If we criminalize abortion then we would have inadvertently limited, criminalized unprotected legitimate sex between couples and would have criminalized fornication. One right denied always lead to a million others suffocated.
Like Senator Bennett of Colorado rightly asked, Scott, tell me who goes to jail if a woman commits the crime of abortion by terminating a pregnancy resulting from rape or incest. Scott, Jesus Christ charged his apostles ‘go ye into all the nations of the earth and preach the god news, for the house that receives ye, you shall give the goodness to those that receive you not, dust you shoes of the dust of house hold at the door step’ He never charged them to enforce the good news or enforce morality. Had God wanted he would have conditioned us that we would have been unable to commit moral sins. God’s freewill edict would have meant nothing if humans were not allowed to choose between right and wrong. Therefore Republicans should quit playing God; they should also quit trying to invalidating God’s freewill edict. If we should legislate on all our individual, group desirables and undesirables then we will never have a functional society.
You also wrote that Obama believes in gay marriage. I can guarantee you that Obama believes that homosexuality is sin but not a crime and should not be a crime. When I am an everyday Christian, I honestly believe that homosexuality is a sin but is in no way different from the sin of fornication, adulatory, adultery, lies, hate, bigotry, racism corruption etc or different from the sin of that pastor who sleeps with one of his or her congregation adulterously or steals from the congregation or the sins of the lying politicians. Christ said ‘he who has no sin let him cast the first stone.’
What Obama said he supports is civil marriage for Gays and Lesbians. Civil marriage and religious marriage are different in both context and texture. Civil marriage is no different from civil union in both context and texture. One who supports civil union (and most Republican do) and vehemently opposes civil marriage is dishonest and as foolish as he or she is ignorant.
A true religious person ought not to panic about same sex civil marriage contract administered by an un-ordained civil servant, the Justice of the peace, in an unsanctified government office. There is something sacred about religious marriage conducted in the altar of Devine One; this contrast alone should reassure true believers. But truth is that today Republicans and the Religious Right have lost focus, instead of preaching the good news they like the Pharisee seek to legislate and enforce the good news (morality) as if the Supreme-One is incapable of enforcing behavior had he chosen so.
Scott, who would you trust a president who says what he means, Obama and does what he says. Or Romney who says what he thinks you want to hear but do opposite of what he says? Few years ago Romney held the same views Obama holds today on gay marriage and abortion. Scott, be rest assured that Romney is a Massachusetts liberal as Republicans, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum rightly pointed out. Mark it Scott, Romney will disappoint the GOP.
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