Posted by
Jay Noble on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 2:47:52 PM
The Barritudes
Barry Obama ventured into theology not long ago and opined that the Sermon on the Mount served as a basis for his support of homosexual and lesbian "rights." I must confess, that after many years of attending Sunday School, church training, and listening to innumerable sermons, I had not noticed anything in Christ’s remarks which I thought supported homosexual conduct. Since Barry’s devoted following considers him to be a sort of second coming, perhaps Barry has drank his own kool-aid and has confused the Beatitudes with the Barritudes.
The Barritudes are the new, secular, Democrat holy writ. Here, for your edification, are some of the Barritudes:
1. Blessed are the wealthy, for the state shall relieve them of the burden of their wealth by taxation.
2. Blessed are the terrorists, for they shall see the American Army withdrawn from Iraq.
3. Blessed are the abortion providers, for they shall be permitted unfettered right to abort a baby.
4. Blessed are the lesbian and homosexual, for they shall be the only subgroup of Americans whose sexual conduct will entitle them to special protection of the laws.
5. Blessed are the parents of children, for the burden of child-rearing shall be removed from them and vested in the state.
6. Blessed are the Iranians, for they shall have a nuclear bomb.
7. Blessed are environmentalists, for they shall attain their fondest wish: the American economy wrecked by regulation to combat a nonexistent threat of global warming.
8. Blessed are the members of the ACLU, for they shall secure the rights of all Americans to be blown to bits and murdered by Islamists.
9. Blessed are the trial lawyers, for they shall grow rich at the expense of wicked American capitalism.
10. Blessed are the poor, for their number shall be multiplied by liberal economic policies.
Barry also dismissed St. Paul’s condemnation of homosexual conduct in his letter to the Romans as an "obscure" passage. I confess my Bible has been augmented by various headings to describe following material. Diligent search has not, however, uncovered the "obscure" passage. I’ll keep looking. Perhaps I’m being hard on Barry, after all, the few liberals who refer to the Bible excise in toto the parts they find objectionable. At least Barry acknowledges the material exists; he just calls it "obscure," implying it should be ignored.
Barry might want to refresh his theology by reading another "obscure" passage found in Matthew, chapter 19, verses 4-6. Therein, Christ said this about the institution of marriage, in response to questioning from the Pharisee: "Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning, ‘made them male and female,’ and said ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let not man separate."
Let Barry try to spin that passage into support for homosexual marriage!!