Obama Ties Same-sex Issues To Jesus Sermon on Mount
With voting just hours away in “Super Tuesday II,” some remarks by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama linking same-sex relationships to Jesus famous Sermon on the Mount are raising some eyebrows in the Christian community.
During a Sunday campaign stop in Nelsonville, Ohio, Pastor Leon Forte of Grace Christian Center in Athens, Ohio, asked the Illinois senator to address social concerns:
“Your campaign sets a quandary for most evangelical Christians. They believe in the social agenda that you have. They have a problem with what the conservatives have laid out as the moral litmus test about who is worthy and who is not.”
As part of a lengthy videotaped response, Obama referred to the speech by Jesus found in the Gospel of Matthew, as well as some anti-homosexual statements made by the apostle Paul which he called “obscure”:
