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Title: Obama: Americans need to shift religious views to accept gay marriage
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URL Source: http://www.examiner.com/article/oba ... s-views-to-accept-gay-marriage
Published: Jun 27, 2015
Author: Joe Newby
Post Date: 2015-06-27 15:05:46 by lana
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Views: 22888
Comments: 141
Obama: Americans need to shift religious views to accept gay marriage After the Supreme Court issued its ruling on gay marriage Friday, President Obama gave a speech in which he said Americans need to change their religious views to be accepting of gay marriage, the Daily Caller reported. To that end, he encouraged gay marriage supporters to "help” people overcome their deeply-held religious views. “I know that Americans of goodwill continue to hold a wide range of views on this issue,” he said. Initially, he exhibited a bit of respect for those who oppose same-sex marriage. "Opposition in some cases has been based on sincere and deeply held beliefs,” he said. “All of us who welcome today’s news should be mindful of that fact. Recognize different viewpoints. Revere our deep commitment to religious freedom.” "But today should also give us hope that on the many issues with which we grapple often painfully real change is possible,” he added. The implication was clear: Those who disagree with the idea of gay marriage based, for example, on their religious views, must change to be more like progressives who accept gay marriage. “Shifts in hearts and minds is possible,” he added. “And those who have come so far on their journey to equality have a responsibility to reach back and help others join them. Because for all our differences, we are one people — stronger together than we could ever be alone.” "That’s always been our story," he continued. "We are big and vast, and diverse. A nation of people with different backgrounds and beliefs, with different experiences and stories, but bound by our shared ideal that no matter who you are, or what you look like, how you started off, or how and who you love — America’s a place where you can write your own destiny.” A post at the conservative blog Chicks on the Right posted it's translation of Obama's comments. "All you crazy religious people who believe in traditional marriage need to change your beliefs!" the blog said. "They're holding you back from joining up with the rest of us super-smart people who aren't burdened by those pesky moral standards given to you by a Higher Power. We know soooooo much better than you and we certainly know soooooo much better than God! Drop the religion crap already and come join us in supporting something you find morally repugnant! Give it time - you'll get over it soon enough!" The blog also saw something of a threat in Obama's comments. "This is our chance to choose to jump up and party with all the same-sex marriage celebrators before you come down and force us to do it?" the blog asked. "What are you going to do if we're still not on board with it? If we still cling to God and religion? 'Cause I'm pretty secure in the knowledge that God will have something to say about that in a future day." Obama, as we reported in 2012, has spent some time shifting and evolving on the issue of gay marriage. In February 1996, he wrote on a candidate questionnaire: “I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.” In 2011, however, then-White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer claimed the statement was written by someone else. "What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman … What I believe, in my faith, is that a man and a woman, when they get married, are performing something before God, and it’s not simply the two persons who are meeting,” he said during his 2004 U.S. Senate campaign. In 2008, he supported civil unions, but not gay marriage. In 2012, he came on board with gay marriage, apparently reverting back to his 1996 position. But as we reported at the time, there was one caveat. He still supported the states' right to decide the matter for themselves. Celebrating the Supreme Court decision, the White House was lit up in the colors of the gay rainbow flag Friday. The Interior Department marked it with a picture of two men kissing on the edge of Colorado's Black Canyon, drawing praise from many and criticism from others.
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#67. To: sneakypete (#66)
Depends on where you go. There are pockets were Americans are not well embraced. потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
I have gone hot and cold, several times, on Russians. I do not think that I would enjoy living there even when I was positive towards them. потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
"Why can't we just all get along (and be gay with me)? You won't know if you like until you have tried it... ;) " - Bathhouse (Barry) Obama
I see you disagree... which nation is greater in your opinion? "we are tartets from evil doers!!!" [ and ] U looked up birfer on the dcitionary. It isn't a movie.
I've never traveled.....nor do I wish to. This is my opinion, (which is shared my most Americans) Ok, so now you can share some person anecdotes about all your travels!..... "we are tartets from evil doers!!!" [ and ] U looked up birfer on the dcitionary. It isn't a movie.
Those are your words, and your opinion - not mine. "we are tartets from evil doers!!!" [ and ] U looked up birfer on the dcitionary. It isn't a movie.
I see, anti-American..... Which nation, in your opinion fits into your narrow-minded definition? "we are tartets from evil doers!!!" [ and ] U looked up birfer on the dcitionary. It isn't a movie.
Discriminate against fags. Not really very productive, or very Christ-Like...... Sadly for you, nothing new, am I right? How has your personal discrimination crusade been working? Are you one of those westboro people? "we are tartets from evil doers!!!" [ and ] U looked up birfer on the dcitionary. It isn't a movie.
It's a shame that you are so pessimistic.... But things are looking up - 4th of July weekend coming up!!! Beer and BBQ!!! "we are tartets from evil doers!!!" [ and ] U looked up birfer on the dcitionary. It isn't a movie.
Which nation, in your opinion fits into your narrow-minded definition? Call me anti American again and your're banned.
Stop making excuses. If you really believed that there were a better place to live than the USA, you would do everything in your power to go there. I would encourage you to take action now! "we are tartets from evil doers!!!" [ and ] U looked up birfer on the dcitionary. It isn't a movie.
My, aren't we sensitive this morning! LOL! Answer the question!!! Which nation, in your opinion fits into your narrow-minded definition? "we are tartets from evil doers!!!" [ and ] U looked up birfer on the dcitionary. It isn't a movie.
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; and ... that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! ... Isaiah 5:20 .
Strike 2.
Beer and BBQ!!! Not expectedly, the significance of this day is a just a "party" for you. Figures. Same as....Memorial Day, eh? What are you -- 25 years old? Your ilk have so sense of propriety...No respect for the traditions and heritage of America. This is America's Independence Day. A time for contemplation. Just as we should do Memorial Day. I'm sure the BBQ'd rat you snort in FEMA Camp will remind you of this post. Btw -- ready to crack open the bubbly for the new national holiday -- 'LBGT Day'?
All you can do is laugh at his guano...
Tell us...about your "Christ." I'm all ears. How has your personal discrimination crusade been working? Projecting again? Give us a lecture on the "discrimination crusade" (as you've been indoctrinated.) Do you support the 1st Amendment? Do you believe "dignity" (Kennedy's word) is the basis for sodomy-Marriage? Are you one of those westboro people? Are you one of those confused gender people who believe Westboro represents "Christ-ian"? Tick...tick...tick...
- Bathhouse (Barry) 0buma HA! That's exactly what he said. Great translation.
Oddly, the 14th Amendment and "Equal Protection" clause seems to be enforced....IN JAPAN.
Those are your words, and your opinion - not mine. No. My words (which you chose not to comment on) were an observation that sometime in the 80s Reagan referred to the USA as a ". . . . shining city on a hill" That America is gone, and the hill has been replaced by a dung heap.
yeah..... So, you don't celebrate our nation's independence? Sad for you.... "we are tartets from evil doers!!!" [ and ] U looked up birfer on the dcitionary. It isn't a movie.
"America is gone, and the hill has been replaced by a dung heap. " These are your words. "...Reagan referred to the USA as a ". . . . shining city on a hill" Those words were John Winthrop's "we are tartets from evil doers!!!" [ and ] U looked up birfer on the dcitionary. It isn't a movie.
Jameson "celebrating" BBQ Day: "gurgle...gurgle....oh, baby....Am I a man now? Or woman? Nevermind. It feels goooood to celebrate whatever Day this is." (chick-wicka-bow-wow)
For Jameson, the more flies and maggots buzzing, the "shinier" the dung-hill.
Thanks for the history lesson. Now back to the point - is America still a shining city on a hill? Was it ever (in your opinion)?
Still waiting... 1) Go ahead and lecture us on the "discrimination crusade" (as you've been indoctrinated.) 2) Do you support the 1st Amendment? 3) Do you believe "dignity" (Kennedy's word) is the basis for sodomy-Marriage? 4) Are you one of those confused gender people who believe Westboro represents "Christ-ian"? 5) Since you seem to know, tell us...about your "Christ." We're all ears. Thanks.
Not a lot to celebrate in recent years with freedom and liberty rapidly on the decline. What I'm trying to get his or her viewpoint on is simple - Whatever one's concept of "America" is - overvall, have we advanced, or declined? Simple question, really. And in a world full of hellholes and backwaters, saying "well, America is still better than [fill in the blank]" hardly seems comforting when looking at the bigger picture.
I agree. Sadly. It's almost a day of national mourning, truth be told. But then that's been the MO of the Statist-Globalists as well as the socialists. They are trying to eradicate America's traditions, heritage, and everything good and noble about it. Too many good men and patriots are allowing it to happen -- THAT is most disappointing.
Declined. What the leftist progressives call 'advancement' has caused the decline of our nation. It is advancement to them...advancement to secular Marxism. Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. (Psalm 62:1-2)
Whatever one's concept of "America" is - overvall, have we advanced, or declined? Simple question, really. I'd assume a good little God-less, socialist transgender-whatever troll like Jameson would consider ANY wreckage of America to be "advancement." In a world full of hellholes and backwaters, saying "well, America is still better than [fill in the blank]" hardly seems comforting when looking at the bigger picture. Exactly. These same socialists and America-haters have been trying to sabotage America and "level the playing field" since the 1970s. ALL the while flopping around in their hot tub, cruising vacations, and cashing in their gubmint Golden Parachutes. D*mn hypocrites.
LOL
It was a Puritan phrase, revived first by JFK then by Reagan. Wiki: ... In the twentieth century, the image was used a number of times in American politics. On 9 January 1961, President-Elect John F. Kennedy returned the phrase to prominence during an address delivered to the General Court of Massachusetts: ... President Ronald Reagan used the image as well, in his 1984 acceptance of the Republican Party nomination[3] and in his January 11, 1989, farewell speech to the nation:
Interesting factoid. Odds of 0blabla referring to America as a "Shining City upon a Hill": 0%
Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. (Psalm 62:1-2)
Is this perfect or what? Heh! (I think I'll send it to my liberal-left homo-loving, Christian-hating college professor friend whose "job" is brainwashing pods. In typical narcissistic Marxist fashion, his "fantasy -- believe it or not -- is 'performing" his class in a stadium.)
Send him this too! Nothing like a Tim Tebow pic to get the juices of hatred flowing with libs:) Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. (Psalm 62:1-2)
Those words were John Winthrop's They were Reagans in the example given because they were a key part of the speech he made. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
LOL! Good one! I expect to see birds flying backwards before that happens. Or to see a feral law passed making white people slaves. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
They were all cribbing from Augustine's The City of God, considered his greatest work.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestTruth to tell,white people are more welcome these days in Asia than they are America.
#68. To: sneakypete (#66)
BTW,I was considering a future move to Russia after the collapse of the USSR. Then the Russians were robbed blind by the Clinton Administration as well as by (mostly) German industrialists,and Putin replaced Yeltsin and the friendly atmosphere towards Americans took a major chill.
#69. To: lana (#0)
"But today should also give us hope that on the many issues with which we grapple often painfully real change is possible,”
#70. To: Lenny (#15)
"...we still live in the greatest nation on earth!..."
#71. To: cranko (#19)
How many countries have you been in and how much time have you spent in each?
#72. To: Rufus T Firefly (#20)
"Hey, it's still better than Kenya or Somalia."
#73. To: A K A Stone (#22)
The definition of the greatest nation on earth can't be a nation that thinks queers are anything other then abnormal losers that are also stupid.
#74. To: A K A Stone (#23)
Of course, on the other hand....what are you to do now?
#75. To: sneakypete (#24)
IMHO that is more of a statement on the sorry situation in other countries all around the world than it is a tribute to America.
#76. To: Jameson (#73)
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I see, anti-American.....
#77. To: SOSO (#63)
If I were a younger man with no school aged children I would be seriously thinking about moving out of the U.S.
#78. To: Jameson (#77)
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#79. To: A K A Stone (#76)
Listen piece of shit. Call me anti American again and your're banned. I don't like you.
#80. To: Jameson (#79)
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#81. To: Jameson (#79)
#82. To: Jameson (#75)
But things are looking up - 4th of July weekend coming up!!!
#83. To: A K A Stone (#76)
#84. To: Jameson (#74)
Not really very productive, or very Christ-Like......
#85. To: TheFireBert (#69)
"Why can't we just all get along (and be gay with me)? You won't know if you like until you have tried it... ;) "
#86. To: sneakypete (#66)
The Japanese have arrested and given stiff prison sentences to a proportionately high number of American blacks for beating,raping,and even murdering Japanese women. I know of two cases where the US government tried to intervene and arrange for the convicts to serve their time in US prisons,and the Japanese basically told them to piss off.
#87. To: Jameson (#72)
Hey, it's still better than Kenya or Somalia."
#88. To: Liberator (#82)
Not expectedly, the significance of this day is a just a "party" for you.
#89. To: Rufus T Firefly (#87)
"Hey, it's still better than Kenya or Somalia."
#90. To: Jameson (#88)
#91. To: Rufus T Firefly, Jameson (#87)
That America is gone, and the hill has been replaced by a dung heap.
#92. To: Jameson (#89)
#93. To: Jameson, A K A Stone (#88)
#94. To: Liberator (#82)
This is America's Independence Day.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#95. To: Liberator, Jameson (#91)
For Jameson, the more flies and maggots buzzing, the "shinier" the dung-hill.
#96. To: Deckard (#94)
#97. To: Rufus T Firefly, tomder55, liberator, GarySpFc, CZ82 (#95)
Whatever one's concept of "America" is - overvall, have we advanced, or declined?
#98. To: Rufus T Firefly, Jameson (#95)
What I'm trying to get his or her viewpoint on is simple -
#99. To: Rufus T Firefly, Jameson, redleghunter (#92)
Thanks for the history lesson.
#100. To: Rufus T Firefly (#87)
The phrase entered the American lexicon early in its history, in the Puritan John Winthrop's 1630 sermon "A Model of Christian Charity". Still aboard the ship Arbella, Winthrop admonished the future Massachusetts Bay colonists that their new community would be "as a city upon a hill", watched by the world — which became the ideal the New England colonists placed upon their hilly capital city, Boston.[1] The Puritans' community in New England would set an example of communal charity, affection, and unity to the world, or if the Puritans failed to uphold their covenant of God, "we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world" of God's judgement. Winthrop's sermon gave rise to the widespread belief in American folklore that the United States of America is God's country because metaphorically it is a Shining City upon a Hill, an early example of American exceptionalism.
#101. To: TooConservative (#100)
#102. To: Liberator, CZ82 (#91)
#103. To: redleghunter, CZ82 (#102)
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#104. To: Liberator, CZ82, TooConservative, GarySpFc, A K A Stone, BobCeleste, Don (#103)
#105. To: Jameson, Rufus T Firefly (#89)
"...Reagan referred to the USA as a ". . . . shining city on a hill"
#106. To: Liberator (#101)
Odds of 0blabla referring to America as a "Shining City upon a Hill":
#107. To: sneakypete (#105)
They were Reagans in the example given because they were a key part of the speech he made.
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