One of the problems of living in a democratic society is that we mix our faith up with our politics. Every one has a right to their own opinion and no one has a right to tell the other how to interpret something. That might work in a government society for a while, but not in Christianity. We are told to rightly divide the truth and are given gifted teachers and evangelists as part of the gifts given to the church.
 
Personally I think this is why we have such a difficult time with these issues we discuss. It is also that Jesus said that sin would abound in the last days and that the love of many shall grow cold. This has effected Christianity. We change the word to fit our likes and dislikes. We ignore and marginalize anything in the word that contradicts what we wish. The parables, well some of them are for us. The sayings of Jesus, ah... he was speaking to Jews.... Christians did not exist until after the resurrection.
 
If this is the case then the sermon of the mount is not for us and for that matter 95% of the sermons given in church do not apply to us.
 
Let us not be blinded by this type of thinking. Jesus is the word and he meant every word. It is not that the gospel is found between the lines. The Gospel is the lines. We have no other hope then what he said, all of what he said.