Obama the Theologian invokes Christ while
endorsing unnatural sexual acts, same-sex
“marriage”...
What
Does The Prayer Really Say? ^ | 9 May
2012 | Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
With the
endorsement of the amendment for the State Constitution of
North Carolina, I thought that the true “ground zero” for
the same-sex debate would now be Minnesota. It will
also now be every ballot in every state in November.
From FNC:
President Obama on Wednesday endorsed
same-sex marriages, becoming the first
sitting U.S. president to take that position following
days of speculation about his “evolving” stance on the
issue.
The president used a hastily called TV interview to make
his position clear.
“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,” Obama told ABC News.
[...]
BUT WAIT…
THERE’s MORE.
In
endorsing unnatural sex, Obama invoked
Christ’s Sacrifice on the Cross.
“This is something that, you know, [Michelle and I
have] 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
thinkabout 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…”
Christ’s
Sacrifice? The “Golden Rule”?
Christians
understand that both are reflections of sacrificial love,
charity, the former the ultimate example of the God man,
the later human and earthly which echoes the former
(cf. Luke 10:25-28).
Obama
instrumentalized the Lord’s Sacrifice,
the ultimate act of the love which is charity, to promote
unnatural sex and the overturning of one of our most
important societal bonds.
We,
according to charity, must act for the true
good of the other. It is not for
the true good of another person to help them to sin or to
undermine Christian morals. But that is exactly what
Obama is doing. This is an astounding example of both
scandal and blasphemy. It is beyond absurd to to
invoke the Lord’s Sacrifice in an attempt to violate our
human nature and God’s laws.
Obama
invoked the Sacrifice of the Cross for the sake of
justifying the destruction of the definition of
“marriage”, as if that is “good” for people. It is
NOT for the good of anyone, because it promotes and
condones a sin that cries to heaven.
We
cannot wish that people sin.
We cannot help them sin.
We cannot tell them that sin is good.
We cannot give them the means to sin so that they will
sin.
We cannot defend the sins of others.
In
charity, we must treat people with the affliction of
sex-sex attraction according to their God-given dignity.
In charity, we can NEVER condone their sinful acts.
It is
the sin that we repudiate, not the
people.
It can
NEVER… NEVER be an act of Christian charity to call evil
acts good, or to condone them, or to say that they are
acceptable, or publicly to undermine morals that stem from
our human nature. It can NEVER… NEVER… be a matter
of “Golden Rule”, which is rooted in the true sacrificial
love which is charity, to promote a change in the
definition of marriage so that “same-sex marriage” can be
marriage’s equivalent in any way.
What
the President did was vile. Even though everyone
knew that was his position, how vile to hear it framed in
that way, publicly given voice.
He is
an embarrassment to the United States. He is
actively tearing at one of society’s most important social
bonds. What he did is harmful to our country and to everycitizen
of every age, even those of same-sex attractions. It
was NOT a reflection of either charity or the Golden Rule
in any Christian sense. The Golden Rule does NOT
mean “you do what you want and I’ll do what I want”.
Pres.
Obama MUST be voted out of office.
St.
Augustine teaches about charity, about real love, in his
commentaries on the First Letter of John. Augustine
describes three kinds of love. He explains that the
greatest way of earthly love is enemy love, true charity
for those who wish you ill and harm you.
I pray
that I will be able to come to this sort of charity, in
which I – may God have mercy on me and give me grace- fail
so very often.