There are few issues I can side with Obama on, but I have to give him credit for a speech he made two years ago to the liberal Christian group Call to Renewal that is now making national headlines thanks to James Dobson. Dobson, of Focus on the Family, attacked Obama today for that speech made in June 2006, in which Obama stated, "Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount?" EXACTLY!
During his radio program, Dobson actually had the balls to say, "I think he's deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own world view, his own confused theology,". So using the Bible to attack homosexuals isn't distorting anything? That one small reference in the Bible still applies because manipulative, self-serving, narrow-minded scum like you say it does? I see. The extent of the hypocrisy among evangelicals never ceases to amaze me, along with their holier-than-thou attitudes. What's more, it's disgusting how men like Dobson get out there and lead congregations against certain actions and people based on their own biases while using the Bible to justify it. All the while they're guilty of some of the very same sins (see Ted Haggard).
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Amen! Have you ever read all of Leviticus or Deuteronomy? I find it interesting that the Bible has a couple of verses about homosexuality being wrong, and a full chapter about a woman's cleanliness and when she can/cannot enter the church; yet we've managed to look past women sneaking into the church with Tampax. Oh, and look for the verse that says if a man touches a woman - with his right hand - while she is unclean then he, also, cannot enter the church.
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