The President's Perversion of the Christian Faith

Today President Obama finally stated what most of us already suspected:  his support for same-sex marriage.  This stance directly opposes the clear teaching of Scripture.  After the Lord God made the woman from the man and brought her to the man, Adam said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man" (Genesis 2:23).  Then Scripture declares unequivocally, "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh" (v. 24).  The Lord Jesus, during the days of his earthly ministry, reiterated the divine blueprint for marriage, saying,

"Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?  So then, they are no longer two but one flesh.  Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate."

- Matthew 19:4-6

Likewise, what God has kept separate, let not man join together, i.e. man and man.

That the president's stance on marriage diametrically opposes the clear teaching of Scripture is bad enough, but he took matters a tragic step further by citing his and his wife Michelle's Christian faith as reasons for personally supporting same-sex marriage!  In an interview with ABC News, President Obama said,

I'd hesitated on gay marriage in part because I thought civil unions would be sufficient.  And I was sensitive to the fact that for a lot of people the word 'marriage' was something that invoked very powerful traditions, religious beliefs, and so forth.

In the end the values that I care most deeply about and she cares most deeply about is how we treat other people.  We are both practicing Christians and 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's also the Golden Rule--treat others the way you would want to be treated.  And I think that's what we try to impart to our kids and that's what motivates me as president, and I figure the most consistent I can be in being true to those precepts, the better I'll be as a dad and a husband and hopefully the better I'll be as president.

The big tip-off to the president's horrendously fallacious perspective is what he professes to be at the "root" of what he and his wife think about:  "not only Christ sacrificing Himself ... but also the Golden Rule."  Contrast the words of the president, "not only Christ sacrificing Himself," with the words of Paul, "I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified" (1 Cor. 2:2).  "Not only Christ sacrificing Himself" versus "nothing ... except Jesus Christ and Him crucified."  

The Christ of our president and the Christ of Paul are two different Christs.  Paul worshiped and obeyed the Christ of Scripture; the president worships and obeys the Christ of secular humanism.  The president sees the Golden Rule as something that must be considered in addition to Christ and his sacrifice, whereas Jesus himself saw all of Scripture--including the Golden Rule--as inextricably linked to his divine person and mission.  In John 5:39-41, Jesus said to the religious leaders of his day, "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.  I do not receive glory from men" -- including our "Christian" president.