Well, there’s always tomorrow. If the media want to look into the wisdom of Sen. Obama’s remarks concerning homosexual legal unions and the Biblical foundations for such, they might want to know that the Bible is quite specific in several places, starting in Genesis, about what God thinks is the appropriate place for sex, which is marriage between a man and a woman. Even the patriarchs who fooled around with more than one wife paid a price, and the men who took a fancy to other men did so as well, as indicated not only in Romans but in the less obscure passage in Genesis about the cities of the plain being destroyed with fire and brimstone after a mob of men tried to have their way with two male angels at Lot’s house.
And lest reporters buy the current “gay theology” fad of attributing Sodom’s sin to mere “inhospitality,” here’s an obscure passage from the Book of Jude: “Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.” (Jude 7)
Sen. Obama pulled the classic straw man dodge of attacking the one passage in Romans as if this were the only thing the Bible had to say about homosexuality. He also cited the Sermon on the Mount, of course, which the senator has discovered is a handy gay rights manual.
Think about this for a minute. This is about a lot more than the homosexual issue, as serious as that is. If Sen. Obama is right, it means that Moses, plus all Christian leaders over the last 20 centuries until very recently, have all been wrong, as are all the world’s other major religions. Now that’s news.
The media may be unwilling to cover this, however, for one of two reasons.
1) They don’t think it’s a story because, they, too, have had a special revelation from God that everybody until today has been wrong. Or,
2) They know that most Americans believe in God and that information like Obama’s officially promoting sin as a civil right might be a little too interesting to some of them.
Either way, it’s unlikely that we’ll see some space or airtime for this story instead of the latest pictures of women fainting and grown men getting goose bumps at Obama rallies.
The Times, like Katie Couric and company, ain’t a changing. At least, not over some obscure Bible passages.