The two leading Democrat candidates for president evidently have thought long and hard about morality.
If you are a traditional Christian, Hilary (!) and Obama imply your views immoral . . . or at least divisive and hateful . . . or something else bad. They are clear what is moral, homosexuality, but not so clear that people who think the newly declared morality is immoral (all of Christendom) are wrong.
That is the obvious implication of their last words on this issue . . . though oddly these Consciences of the Nation have had a hard time saying it. We can only hope both can muster better moral rhetoric for the War on Terror than this weak stuff.
They think we are immoral, but are hoping we will not notice. The saddest thing is Obama on this issue . . . who lacked the courage to of clarity, but still wrote off most of the views of the African-American community as mere “divisiveness.”
The Guardian says:
Obama issued a statement on Thursday, saying, “I do not agree with General Pace that homosexuality is immoral. Attempts to divide people like this have consumed too much of our politics over the past six years.”
Obama did not directly answer on Wednesday when asked if same-sex relationships were immoral, Newsday reported. Obama issued a statement on Thursday, saying, “I do not agree with General Pace that homosexuality is immoral. Attempts to divide people like this have consumed too much of our politics over the past six years.”
Clinton told ABC News Wednesday that it’s for “others to conclude” whether homosexuality is immoral. On Thursday, she put out a statement saying that she’d heard from gay friends who said her answer sounded evasive.
“I should have echoed my colleague Senator John Warner’s statement forcefully stating that homosexuality is not immoral because that is what I believe,” her statement said.
Evidently Billy Graham, the Pope, the Ecumenical Patriarch, Mother Theresa, and most of the people on this planet have been wrong in making a moral judgment about homosexuality.
The wife of Bill Clinton and the junior Senator from Illinois have both over turned all of Western civilized tradition and declared homosexual acts moral.
Notice they did not argue (as a good conservative might) that such acts should be legal (though wrong) or that some things private people think are bad should receive private sanctions.
Democrats (as was predictable) are now demanding we condone and celebrate vice and not just tolerate it. We must think it moral to avoid public condemnation . . . or at least not say we think it immoral.
Instead, what the Pope thinks about homosexuality is called “divisive” by Senator Obama. So much for his outreach to Evangelical voters who evidently only support marriage because they want to divide the nation!
What Aquinas and Plato believed about these acts is dismissed by Obama and Clinton without an argument . . . in order to raise money from a Democrat special interest group.
Their comments imply that they disagree with the Western tradition and think it wrong to call homosexuality immoral. If a thing is wrong, then isn’t it immoral?
Are the two leading candidates for the Democrat nomination for President saying that every traditional Jew, Christian, Islamic person in the United States have an immoral position?
Are the majority of Americans immoral?
Clinton and Obama pose as if they personally think abortion “wrong,” but that it should be a choice. With sexual morality, they are more open and have declared that not only must Democrats think homosexual actions should be legal, but they must be condoned loudly and clearly.
In Canada, it is now very difficult to agree with the Pope . . . and say even in private affairs that homosexual actions are wrong. Saying that one thinks this is rapidly becoming a sort of hate crime or at the very least politically incorrect.
Canada points the way to the future for traditional Christians if it becomes impossible to say what Billy Graham, the Pope, the Patriarch, and Moses believed: homosexual acts are immoral.
Let the press ask these two: is there a place in the party for those who think homosexual acts unnatural and immoral and who say so?
