Monday, September 21, 2015

SUNDAY, SEP 20, 2015 02:00 PM EDT Huckabee & Santorum flunk their own religion: Inside the biblical verses that contradict Kim Davis

http://www.salon.com/2015/09/20/huckabee_santorum_flunk_their_own_religion_inside_the_biblical_verses_that_contradict_kim_davis/

Huckabee & Santorum flunk their own religion: Inside the biblical verses that contradict Kim Davis

Kim Davis and her supporters, such as Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum, don’t seem to know much about the American legal system, and they don’t know much about the real meaning of marriage. They also don’t know much about Christianity. 
Of course, when Davis says that issuing a marriage license to gay couples violates “my faith,” she might be defining faith in purely personal terms, and so might Huckabee and Santorum. But they all seem to be referring to Christianity. If they actually read the New Testament, however, instead of invoking Christianity as an excuse for discrimination, they would realize that it contains no prohibitions of the sort they claim.
The famous line that everyone knows appears in all three Synoptic Gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke: “Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.” The context is that Jesus’ enemies are trying to trap jim into making a statement that would oppose the legal requirement to pay taxes. 
Jesus asks them to show him the sort of coin that could be used to pay the tax, and the coin they produce naturally has the image of the Emperor (Tiberius) on it. In other words, since the money is issued by Caesar, it can be paid to Caesar.   There are various ways to interpret this account, of course, but the most natural interpretation is that a legal requirement, by itself, doesn’t have religious significance.
Kim Davis isn’t being asked to personally approve marriage licenses. She is being asked to issue a state marriage license to someone who has met the state’s requirements for marriage. 
To use two more telling examples: People who are remarrying after a divorce are violating a Catholic clerk’s principles, and Jews who get married without acknowledging the divinity of Christ are violating both a Catholic and a Protestant clerk’s principles. 
Presumably, those clerks would refuse to officiate at religious ceremonies of divorcees or Jews. But that’s not what they are being asked to do. They are being asked to issue a document created and defined by the government. The same applies to Kim Davis.
A somewhat less well-known part of the New Testament makes the point even more clearly, and extends it to bakers and caterers who have declared they won’t provide their services to a same-sex couple. 
During the 1st century, Greek and Roman temples sacrificed animals to the gods. Not being fools, those in charge of these temples had decided that what the gods wanted was the nice white, glistening fat, not the brown bloody meat. 
So after they had burned the fat as a sacrifice, the temples wound up owning a lot of meat, which they typically served at ceremonies or sold in the market. Members of the church of Corinth, which was founded by St. Paul, write to him to ask whether Christians can purchase or eat meat from an animal that has been sacrificed to the pagan gods.
when you usurp something as great as the word and Jesus's teachings you run the risk of giving yourself away as the fraud that you are.  misstatements of fact, relating a totally different interpretation designed to reinforce your misleadings in this cyber age is really third tier stupidest. a few key strokes and you are busted.

that is why they now are trying to change grade school curriculum to teach their propaganda with instructional indoctrination to obey and not question.  they are fortunately too late for the next generation who will have to be the ones who teach the next ones not to hate as they are taught to hate.

White racist and bigots are the only Whites that worry those who don't oppose are not they know intolerance and discrimination is not only useless but dwindling they are not concerned with trying to lord over another American but share their Americanism with all the real American way.

these charlatan zealots exploit religion it is a tool of control and like any other tool to control eventually it gets exposed the perpetrators disgraced and shunned.

Huckabee and Santorum and rookie wannabe's like Cruz want in to the scam republicans have held their base in line with forever but these latest efforts to use GOD which is an oxymoron are being shined on and easier to see the blasphemous ranting for the deception that it is.  no need to check reservations at the Pearly Gates for these pretenders cause their names will not be on the guest list no coat check there.