Obama's positions on same-sex marriage and abortion

If you are curious as to where Barack Obama stands as far as gay marriage and abortion goes, you can find out right here.

Speaking about gay marriage, Obama says this:

"I don't think it [a same-sex union] should be called marriage, but I think that it is a legal right that they should have that is recognized by the state," said Obama. "If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount, which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, more central than an obscure passage in Romans."

That should raise some evangelical eyebrows. One tenant of the faith is that the Holy Scripturtes are inspired by God, and written by men. As they are all inspired by God, and all have the same source, they should be taken with equal weight. Of course, context plays an important role, and the tone of the writing is important as well, but both of these passages are pretty straight forward.

The Baptist Press has an interesting article about it here.

As for abortion, I think this passage says it all...

In a 2001 Illinois Senate floor speech about that bill, he argued that to call a baby who survived an abortion a "person" would give it equal protection rights under the 14th Amendment and would give credibility to the argument that the same child inside its mother's womb was also a "person" and thus could not be aborted.

So, Obama does not believe that a baby, even outside of the mother's womb, is a person, if the intent of that birth (such as in partial-birth abortion) was to abort the baby.

That's says enough for me.

From Townhall.

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