{"id":27854,"date":"2012-05-10T00:25:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T06:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/10\/which-sounds-more-like-something-christ-would-say.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T14:36:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:36:12","slug":"which-sounds-more-like-something-christ-would-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/10\/which-sounds-more-like-something-christ-would-say.html","title":{"rendered":"Which sounds more like something Christ would say?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barrack Obama, on his decision, as a &quot;practicing Christian,&quot; to support gay marriage: <i>&quot;Obviously this position may be considered to put us at odds with the views of others but, you know, when we think about our faith, the thing at root that we think about is, not only Christ sacrificing himself on our behalf, but it\u2019s also the Golden Rule, you know, treat others the way you would want to be treated. And I think that\u2019s what we try to impart to our kids and that\u2019s what motivates me as president and I figure the most consistent I can be in being true to those precepts, the better I\u2019ll be as a as a dad and a husband and hopefully the better I\u2019ll be as president.&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Matt Barber, attorney for the Liberty Counsel, columnist at the Washington Times, TownHall, and WorldNetDaily, on Twitter:  <i>&#39;&quot;Gay&quot; marriage is sin, sterile, un-Biblical &amp; mocks God. Obama, how dare you cite Christianity to support your politically driven flip-flop.&#39;<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/jmattbarber\/status\/200365037750190080\" >https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/jmattbarber\/status\/200365037750190080<\/a><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/dispatches\/sarahposner\/5969\/obama_says_his_faith_informed_his_support_for_gay_marriage\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter'>Obama Says His Faith Informed His Support for Gay Marriage<\/a><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/dxENQXWz26h' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barrack Obama, on his decision, as a &quot;practicing Christian,&quot; to support gay marriage: &quot;Obviously this position may be considered to put us at odds with the views of others but, you know, when we think about our faith, the thing at root that we think about is, not only Christ sacrificing himself on our behalf, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/10\/which-sounds-more-like-something-christ-would-say.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Which sounds more like something Christ would say?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,718],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-marriage-equality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32273,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/22\/brian-brown-is-a-dolt-separate-but-equal-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":27854,"position":0},"title":"Brian Brown is a Dolt (Separate but Equal Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 22-Jan-13 3:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Hey, Brian! Caught your official National Organization for Marriage (NOM) press release yesterday, which \"Criticizes President's Decision to Divide Nation Over Marriage on Inauguration Day.\" \u00a0So ... can we talk? Washington, D.C.\u00a0\u2014 Brian Brown, President of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), criticized President Obama\u2019s decision to use his Inauguration\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Dolts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Dolts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/dolts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/did-we-vote-on-your-marriage.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":41539,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/26\/world-vision-backs-off-tolerating-married-gay-employees.html","url_meta":{"origin":27854,"position":1},"title":"World Vision backs off tolerating married gay employees","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Mar-14 5:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"On Monday, the Christian world relief and development charity, World Vision, announced that it would accept legally married gay employees. \u00a0As the charity's president said in the announcement, \"since World Vision is a multi-denominational organization that welcomes employees from more than 50 denominations, and since a number of these denominations\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27815,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/08\/the-obama-gay-marriage-thang.html","url_meta":{"origin":27854,"position":2},"title":"The Obama Gay Marriage Thang","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 8-May-12 8:54am","format":false,"excerpt":"So this week some high-ranking members of the Obama Administration came out (so to speak) in favor of marriage equality. 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