Obama: Decriminalize Homosexuality Worldwide
EmailABC News’ Kirit Radia reports: The Obama administration said today it will sign on to a United Nations declaration calling for the decriminalization of homosexuality around the world. The move is a reversal of the position taken by the Bush administration, which refused to sign onto the document when it was first circulated late last year. It has already been endorsed by 66 other countries, including the entire European Union, Japan, Australia, and Mexico. "The United States supports the UN Statement on ‘Human Rights, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity,’ and is pleased to join the other 66 UN member states who have declared their support of this Statement that condemns human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity wherever they occur," State Department acting spokesman Robert Wood said in a statement. "The United States is an outspoken defender of human rights and critic of human rights abuses around the world. As such, we join with the other supporters of this Statement and we will continue to remind countries of the importance of respecting the human rights of all people in all appropriate international fora," Wood added. The Bush administration had argued that endorsing the declaration might force the federal government to take positions on issues left up to states, like gay marriage. The Obama administration appears to have a different legal interpretation. The State Department said today that signing onto the declaration "commits us to no legal obligations." A State Department official points out that only six of the 66 signatories to the declaration have legalized gay marriage, an illustration that the endorsement does not commit anyone to do so. “The Administration’s leadership on this issue will be a powerful rebuke of an earlier Bush Administration position that sought to deny the universal application of human rights protections to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals,” said Mark Bromley, who chairs the Council for Global Equality, which advocates an American foreign policy that is inclusive of gay rights. The United States notified the French, who sponsored the declaration, yesterday and informed lawmakers on Capitol Hill of the decision last night.
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They need to make a declaration for Hispanics. I need my rights protected. No one is running to sign this…. :(
Posted by: Joe V. | March 18, 2009, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm
meanwhile his fans voted in california to give second class status to gays.
obama is a believer in separate but equal
Posted by: realityville | March 18, 2009, 4:20 pm 4:20 pm
Shame on the US for discriminating against All others. I am Hispanic and don’t see the US rushing to setup extra protection.
Posted by: Joe V. | March 18, 2009, 4:20 pm 4:20 pm
somebody should talk to the poor Arab countries about coming on board
Posted by: phillysmart | March 18, 2009, 4:22 pm 4:22 pm
I mean after all the Arabs openly discriminate against woma and homosexuals and nobody seems to care
Posted by: phillysmart | March 18, 2009, 4:23 pm 4:23 pm
I follow Jesus, and he is my judge.
Posted by: matt Wood | March 18, 2009, 4:51 pm 4:51 pm
Speficy what rights you want protected, because last time i checked Hispanics were subjected more to discrimination and sterotypes rather then limited rights and privlages.
Posted by: Endless | March 18, 2009, 4:55 pm 4:55 pm
Matt Wood said:I follow Jesus, and he is my judge.
And God said Homosexuality was an Abomination! And you are right, He will be the Judge. And The President should STOP professing to be a Christian. He is doing everything in his power to embrace anything that is anti-Christian values. Abortion, gay rights, same sex marriage.
Posted by: BUBBAB4 | March 18, 2009, 5:12 pm 5:12 pm
Wow what a low blow to some. Another group that they can’t murder and hate. Good for Obama!
Posted by: mike420 | March 18, 2009, 5:13 pm 5:13 pm
phillysmart:”somebody should talk to the poor Arab countries about coming on board”
Not sure what you mean by that. Of course people are talking to them and trying to get them onboard. That is all they do at the UN, talk to diplomats about stuff like this.
Signing this commits us to nothing, since in the US human rights are already protected. Bush would have signed it too if he didn’t have to protect the gay marriage wedge issue.
Posted by: jhw539 | March 18, 2009, 5:16 pm 5:16 pm
BUBBAB4:”And God said Homosexuality was an Abomination!”
Citation please.
Posted by: jhw539 | March 18, 2009, 5:17 pm 5:17 pm
Sadly, there is a citation:
Leviticus 18:22:
“You shall not lie with a male as those who lie with a female; it is an abomination.”
Leviticus 20:13:
“If a man lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination and they shall surely be put to death.”
I dont beileve in God or am i a homosexual myself, but what stuns me is that homosexuals who do should release most of negative attetion it (homosexuality) gets stems from the Christian Religion.
Posted by: Endless | March 18, 2009, 5:24 pm 5:24 pm
BUBBAB4—read the new testament?
Joe V., hispanics are covered under the civil rights act—they cannot legally be discriminated in any way. gays and lesbians do not have that protection. you, as a hispanic cannot be fired because you are hispanic. in almost every state, and in federal law, if you are a homosexual you can LEGALLY be fired for that cause. that is discrimination pure and simple and i support and respect the president for his courage on this issue.
now we can join the rest of the free world and enter the 21st century on this issue.
Posted by: Paul Wall | March 18, 2009, 5:26 pm 5:26 pm
Joe V., read the Civil Rights Act (1964) signed inti law by President Johnson prohibiting discrimination race, relegion, or gender.
Posted by: Paul Wall | March 18, 2009, 5:31 pm 5:31 pm
Endless:”Sadly, there is a citation:”
Not too horribly sad for most Christians. After all I don’t know many Christians who keep odd kosher rules that are clearly demanded in the Old Testament. It’s almost like some of it has been superseded by a revised version, a New Testament if you will.
There is an interesting academic argument over the translation of that passage also. It may be prohibiting *where* homosexual activity takes place, not the act itself – weird, but entirely consistent with many of the other kosher-type rules scattered through the Old Testament.
Posted by: jhw539 | March 18, 2009, 5:34 pm 5:34 pm
phillysmart—i agree with you. homosexuals and women are subject to the severest of penalties in (Fundamentalist) Arab nations. even modern islamic counries like Egypt treat homosexuality as a crime. South Africa has led the way in Africa, yet Zimbabwe has draconian laws (but hopefully that country will collapse soon so that its citizens can survive.
Posted by: Paul Wall | March 18, 2009, 5:35 pm 5:35 pm
actually its not just Christians, its Judaism and Muslims as well. Buddhists are the only religion that actually doesn’t care about homosexuality. Hindus are divided on it, scientology is against it. Really every thing except Buddha.
I’m also glad Obama signed this (also I am a heterosexual I just so happen to believe all people are entitled to equal rights even for conservatives). Anyone who thinks gays are an abomination, look at George Bush, his conception is an abomination. Hmmm can two people of the same sex have a baby? No. Therefore not an abomination. Because gays and lesbians cannot make babies with their partners, I believe they should be rewarded.
Posted by: Jeff | March 18, 2009, 5:47 pm 5:47 pm
jhw539—yeah the old testament has some pretty draconian “laws”, even women are treated very poorly. it’s funny how many christians forget the “christian” part of their faith—that Jesus spoke to love, kindness, acceptance. hate is easy. tolerance is difficult, but at the end of the day tolerance makes you feel like a better person than if you were to hate.
Posted by: Paul Wall | March 18, 2009, 5:47 pm 5:47 pm
Jeff, thanks for your post, man. it’s appreciated at least by me. it would nice to see heterosexuals care more about children: many will spend upwards of $25-50,000 to have children in a variety of different ways yet would never adopt a child, especially a minority child. most right-wing radical christians could care less about minor children being terminated. we can tell this by the fact that african-americans at least make up 12% of the population but are over-represented in foster care. these “good christians” could and do completely care less.
Posted by: Paul Wall | March 18, 2009, 5:57 pm 5:57 pm
“The United States is an outspoken defender of human rights” yeah, except EVERYONE’S BASIC HUMAN RIGHT, THE RIGHT TO LIFE.
Posted by: notafan | March 18, 2009, 6:14 pm 6:14 pm
Gays aren’t fighting for special protection – just equal protection. No country in the world makes it illegal to be openly Hispanic. Many places make it illegal to be openly gay.
Posted by: Jesse | March 18, 2009, 6:18 pm 6:18 pm
BUBBAB4: If you’re a fan of Leviticus, does the following mean you think Kennedy, Reagan, Dole, Gingrich, Barr, etc. should have been put to death for committing adultery? Or do you pick and choose the biblical injunctions that suite your prejudices? Just curious.
Levicitus 20:10: And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Posted by: James | March 18, 2009, 7:31 pm 7:31 pm
i say gay marriages should be legal in the usa
Posted by: jene | March 18, 2009, 7:36 pm 7:36 pm
To quote Richard Dawkins, “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
Many things in the Bible are an Abomination: eating shellfish, being Catholic, eating lobster, being Hindu, eating shrimp, being Buddhist, eating pork, being Orthodox, and so on. So, Gays…you have a lot of fellow-abominators.
Posted by: Stephen | March 18, 2009, 8:09 pm 8:09 pm
This president is indeed a liar. Anyone who claims to be a Christian ought to understand that the Bible repeats more than several times, (in the old testament and the new), clearly, in language you won’t misunderstand, that homosexuality IS sexual immorality, and a sin. To promote sin, IS to demonstrate to God that one is NOT a Christian. He might be something else, but Obama is NOT a Christian. He cannot say he adheres to Christian values, but he can say he adheres to SOME values which Christians adhere to. Just put it in your mind that Obama is NOT a Christian. So now you might ask, what moral code does Obama adhere to?
Posted by: picomanning | March 18, 2009, 8:24 pm 8:24 pm
Have you read the news today about the raging HIV epidemic in Washington DC? How about the news of 40% of babies born (those who escape the abortion clinic?) are born to single mothers? So promote the so-called ‘enlightened secular values’ but for what end? The unguided passions of unbounded desires? These are the Godless fruits of liberalism flourishing. Say what you will about the Bible, but the truth of our Bible will be around long after the failed souls of untold millions are destroyed. Jesus gives you a choice. Deny him and reap the whirlwind. There is no other argument.
Posted by: picomanning | March 18, 2009, 8:34 pm 8:34 pm
I’ve lived in the US my entire life and
I’ve never seen any evidence it’s a Christian nation. Gay people should be given the same rights as everyone else.
Posted by: bob dobbs | March 18, 2009, 8:55 pm 8:55 pm
Indeed, these are the most NON-Christian comments I’ve read in a long time. It’s really heart breaking.
Posted by: Gary Jaffe | March 18, 2009, 9:18 pm 9:18 pm
What a bunch of hooey on this blog. So many people quoting the Bible. It’s unbelievable the level of hypocracy. It’s unbelievable the level of intolerance and hatred.
That Bible was invented and reinvented over the last 1800 years. It wasn’t written by Jesus and 99.999% of it has nothing to do with the original prophet. Today’s organized Pauline Christianity sects are religion in decline. People have left the Pauline Christianity in droves because of hypocracy.
The prophet Jesus had just a few things to say and those things ring out more than the junk that was added. There is the golden rule (love thy neighbor), turn the other cheek, and help those that are the poor and ill among us. Quaker’s follow that. Tolstoy and Emerson wrote about it and acted. The original people who fought against slavery in England followed this. Thomas Jefferson created a new type of Bible, the Jefferson Bible on this. Gandhi and Martin Luther King followed that. Buddha espoused that. And so on.
Our new President can be a follower of Jesus without being a Pauline Christian. He can support the civil rights of homosexuals and by doing that is very much a follower of Jesus. We’ll see if he can stay with it.
Gandhi’s actions and inactions about evil in the world provided the moral superiority to take India back from the British. What a thought.
Posted by: lucy2008 | March 18, 2009, 9:22 pm 9:22 pm
I dont understand what hispanics are talking about. if they are legal citizens they have the same protected rights as all heterosexual citizens in this country. noone is telling them they cant marry. no one is kicking them out of the army for being who they are. noone is questioning their rights to adopt children based on their genetics. noone is taking away their rights period. they may experience biggotry or discrimination as all minorities do, but be thankful you dont have the church running around funding amendments to state constitutions banning you from marrying the one you love. until your right to marry, adopt or represent your country without fear of expulsion is taken away dont talk to me about what is fair. Kudos to the Obama administration for this move, but lets back it up with real change and remove the shame of human rights violations against gays and lesbians in this country once and for all!
Posted by: Robert kellogg | March 18, 2009, 10:01 pm 10:01 pm
Obama can sign on to this foolish document. That does not make Homosexuality appropriate suxual behavior in the eyes of the one true God. No sane person needs a UN document to treat ALL of God’s children with love and kindness.
Posted by: gladys | March 18, 2009, 10:04 pm 10:04 pm
Yes, The One must see to it that Bush’s criminalization of worldwide homosexuality is reversed!
Posted by: RR GOP | March 18, 2009, 10:05 pm 10:05 pm
President Obama has signed America’s Death Warrent- God Calls Homosexuallity an Abomination & His Judgement will fall on those who practice it as well as those who condone it.
” WOE UNTO YOU WHO CALL GOOD EVIL & EVIL GOOD”
Posted by: Jim | March 18, 2009, 10:08 pm 10:08 pm
Sure – Decriminilize away. After all, Obama is also going to free the jailed from Gitmo, and you just know that those people love and respect Homosexuals. After all, Savage Arab Terrorists, after blowing up buildings and killing innocent people, the next thing they like to do best is stand up for their depraved homosexual brother and sister terrorists!
Posted by: Paul | March 18, 2009, 10:17 pm 10:17 pm
I love how the liberals want to brand real Christianity as ‘intolerance and hatred’–when it is God who is intolerant and hates sin!!! God WILL NOT wink at your sin–you WILL have to stand before HIm as your judge, like it or not. You might think you are getting away with something in this life by living however you please in total disregard for HIs commandments, however, the day is coming–and may not be far off, when you WILL have to give an account to Him for all your action–as well as all your thoughts and intentions as well—and then what kind of secular spin on falsehood and perversion do you think will be enough to convince God, who is a consuming fire, that you are somehow pure enough to enter His Kingdom? Jesus, who you claim was ‘all about love’ said–”NO ONE comes to the Father except by me”
Deal with it—either now, or during your eternal stay in Hell–and that is not ‘hatred’–that is loving you enough to tell you you are headed over a cliff and have very little time to turn around before it is forever too late….
Posted by: Joann | March 18, 2009, 10:21 pm 10:21 pm
Re: Jim’s post “President Obama has signed America’s Death Warrent- God Calls Homosexuallity an Abomination & His Judgement will fall on those who practice it as well as those who condone it.
” WOE UNTO YOU WHO CALL GOOD EVIL & EVIL GOOD” ”
I could not have been better at showing such hypocracy as this. Such love and kindness just flows and flows from this person who is so arrogant to know the mind of god or the personality of god. How sad.
Posted by: lucy2008 | March 18, 2009, 10:27 pm 10:27 pm
This is an absolute TRAVESTY that Obama has pursued this. Doesn’t he get the message that we Americans aren’t huge fans of gay rights? Why all these special rights for sexual perverts and as some of the nations that rejected signing onto this piece of trash pointed out, it could open the door to pedophiles, etc.
Posted by: Steve | March 18, 2009, 11:12 pm 11:12 pm
And to all those on this blog who are defending Obama’s indefensible decision, you should realize that homosexuality is destroying lives. The Aids epidemic is rising in America and homosexuals are doing nothing good to help heal the divided American family.
And if you think that it’s just a few ‘freaks’ who believe that homosexuality is morally wrong, think again. Strong majorities of Americans vote to ban gay marriages around the country and that’s just one illustration of America’s conservatism on the issue. What Obama did was wrong and God will be the Judge of his actions.
Posted by: Steve | March 18, 2009, 11:19 pm 11:19 pm
God loves the sinner; hates the sin. This does not apply only to homosexual acts, but all wrongs against God’s law. for hetrosexuals fornication is sin.
The greatest of the commandments is love for one another. Only God will judge our wrongs.
Posted by: pat | March 18, 2009, 11:42 pm 11:42 pm
God’s grace is sufficient to save those involved with the practice of homosexuality. We Christians (historically no strangers to persecution) should embrace our brothers and sisters no matter what their heart condition and show them the love of Jesus Christ. Once they fall in love with Jesus they will want to read and obey his word, then they will be healed of their afflictions.
Posted by: John | March 18, 2009, 11:58 pm 11:58 pm
Pat and Steve, why are you defending yourselves as Christians? Christians aren’t persecuting gays. Middle Eastern countries do persecute gays — let the left fight with them.
Don’t get caught up in this Marxist politically correct gay game that will evenutally outlaw the Bible because of its views on homosexuality.
“Gay rights” are a strategy of the Marxists to try to marginalize Christianity. American Christians have done nothing wrong.
Posted by: pub | March 19, 2009, 2:07 am 2:07 am
Race and religion and nationality and political party and class and gender and sexuality are all separate issues. Do not conflate them. You can be gay and black and black and republican and…and…and…
I’m very proud of President Obama’s stance on human rights. Democrats did not kill prop 8. Further, if the GLBT wants to be really revolutionary I don’t know why they want to subscribe to the hetero-normative ideological paradigm known as “marriage.” Marriage has created a subordinate space for women and continues to do so. GLBT should be working to dismantle “marriage” and not support it. But that’s my opinion.
Posted by: maryaskme | March 19, 2009, 2:23 am 2:23 am
maryaskme….posted….
if the GLBT wants to be really revolutionary I don’t know why they want to subscribe to the hetero-normative ideological paradigm known as “marriage.” Marriage has created a subordinate space for women and continues to do so. GLBT should be working to dismantle “marriage” and not support it. But that’s my opinion.
I like the way you think…maryaskme…
I have been married twice and the last one did me in… I’ll not marry again,
It was Katherine Hepburn who said,
“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.”
I also commend this President for the sight that all people should be seen as equal… and that we should join the other 66 UN states… Good for him… Good for us…
Posted by: theafalcon200 | March 19, 2009, 6:55 am 6:55 am
Haha. Good for you phillysmart.
And I think it great what Obama has done.
Posted by: rucaflower | March 19, 2009, 12:29 pm 12:29 pm
To all you good “Christians” out there: I get that you think homosexuality is wrong. But do you really think it’s right to kill and imprison gay people?
All this (nonbinding) resolution does is proclaim that the US and other civilized countries think it’s wrong to kill and imprison people for being gay.
Posted by: Elizabeth | March 19, 2009, 2:26 pm 2:26 pm
It’s a blessing to be rid of Bush and to begin the process of equality and justice. Worldwide human rights abuses against LGBT’s are soaring, in the US, but especially in Arab and African countries. The Pope has known for decades that the Bible in its original languages does not condemn gays, yet he continues to scapegoat them as the causes of the world’s woes. Crackpot organizations exist in this country that falsely claim to “cure” LGBT’s to their psychiatric harm, at time pushing gays to kill themselves. Helpful sounding organizations like “Focus on the Family” alter reseach to fit their anti-gay political agenda and until now prevented the very step President Obama wisely has made. Thank you!
Posted by: Jesterling | March 19, 2009, 4:14 pm 4:14 pm
maryaskme—wow what you wrote is really insightful. i agree that the concept of marriage can and should be deconstructed. and i think marriage and children should bring no value (i.e. tax breaks)to people who believe in marriage and children. why should gay tax money support heterosexuals. i am gay and have no interest in marriage at all. and i wish all the right-wing jesus nuts would adopt children instead of trying to prevent abortions. if they really loved children they would adopt these children who aren’t aborted. since many of these children are minority children they won’t be adopted. christian values are a contradiction in terms.
Posted by: Paul Wall | March 19, 2009, 6:00 pm 6:00 pm
“The United States is an outspoken defender of human rights and critic of human rights abuses around the world. As such, we join with the other supporters of this Statement and we will continue to remind countries of the importance of respecting the human rights of all people in all appropriate international fora.” Robert Wood
Acting Department Spokesman, Office of the Spokesman
Bureau of Public Affairs
Washington, DC
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Robert Wood and President Obama misrepresent the majority of Americans who have voted against such policy. How is ‘Sexual Orientation’ a Human Rights issue? Is there scientific evidence that proves genetically that Gay or Lesbian is equivalent to Man, Woman, ethnicity, such that it should be protected as an inalienable right? Comments to this article in favor of the action fall into some disturbing categories : hatred toward Christians, enmity toward God, and devaluing of children and marriage, yet these same applaud the acceptance of this policy in the name of ‘human rights’. Depraved, evidence. Romans 1:24ff
Posted by: jcook | March 21, 2009, 9:23 pm 9:23 pm
Ok, so far not a single person posting here opposed to gay marriage based on biblical injunctions has agreed that all the other kosher rules are grounds for legal action.
You can’t have it both ways.
If you want both to ban gay marriage and to have the death penalty for adultery, that’s consistent, if abominable and totally at odds with modern morals and our system of government. It’s an argument you can make, but will surely lose.
But to pick one rule and not the other means you are making your own personal moral judgments first, then looking for justification in your bible. To put it more bluntly, you are lying about the source of your moral argument, so you have ZERO credibility asking anyone else to even bother to refute self-serving and inconsistent nonsense.
Why can’t you see that?
Posted by: James | March 23, 2009, 6:03 pm 6:03 pm
I wish someone against this based on being Christian would answer Elizabeth’s question. Here it is again…
Posted by: magella | March 24, 2009, 10:29 pm 10:29 pm
This here totally tells you what Obama is all about. No Bible believing christian would vote for this to be approved. If your a christian you know what the word of Gods tells us about homosexual activities. THEY ARE WRONG….If things keep going against the Bible, there won’t be any votes from America as God will destroy us. I wonder if the pedifiles start saying they don’t have their rights if Obama will approve and vote for that? Where does it stop. This is really scary. A wolf in sheeps clothing maybe?
Posted by: Connie Garcia | March 25, 2009, 9:15 pm 9:15 pm
Your god doesn’t exist. Your hate is based on a lie. Make moral choices based on empathy instead.
Posted by: Michael | March 28, 2009, 6:13 am 6:13 am
I’d like to ask something. In what world does our God cast out homosexuals but still love everyone at the same time? Jesus loved everyone, but he didnt love homosexuals??? Now how does that work? Please if you really know what God thinks, can you explain this?
Posted by: Adam | March 28, 2009, 11:35 pm 11:35 pm
To Joe V. … Why do you feel you need to be protected the same way because you are hispanic? Are you being jailed, tortured or killed for being hispanic? Why do you feel that Obama needs to make a declaration to decriminalize being hispanic? Emphasis on “de-cri-min-a-lize”! Please look up what that word means first. I don’t believe there are laws anywhere in the world that says it’s a crime to be hispanic.
Posted by: John | April 10, 2009, 3:01 am 3:01 am
I believe in a God that throws lighting whenever he is mad, and that rain really comes from Gods that are upset and crying. Yes, it might sound absurd to some of you religious freaks, but how is any of that really any different from what you believe. Besides, my religion existed hundreds of years before yours did!
Posted by: Andrew | April 10, 2009, 3:09 am 3:09 am
A child who is sexually abused has a great chance of having homosexual feeling develope later in life. With a girl if her father abused her or was mean to her continuously she will most likely grow up thinking that men only bring pain and seek after female companionship. When puberty strikes she will most likely be drawn to females. When a boy is sexually abused as a child they will sometimes be drawn to men. When a child does not form a strong relationship with a same sex role model they don’t know how to be that gender as an adult. If the boy has no real male guardians or role models he will grow up with men as being foreign and will most likely be attracted to the masculinity of men not having been in contact with it in childhood.
If a boy has only his mother to look up to and sees men as only hurtful due to abandonment or abuse by his father or other adult male then he will not want to be a man. He will run in the opposite direction of his manhood sometimes subconsciously. For others still it is like a ball rolling down a hill.
They are exposed to sexual scenes in “entertainment” and this puts it into there minds. Human beings are very visual people, it is not just men.
I am not sure if anyone else feels this ball rolling but this is what happened to and is still happening. I don’t like how “entrainment” affects me. Homosexuality is only the effect of a much greater evil.
The destruction of innocents. The liberals are right Homosexuality is not a choice, it is a prison. “Everyone who commits a sin is a slave to sin”
(John 8:34) There is freedom in Christ alone. In Him there is no condemnation. 17”For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”(John 3:17)
Posted by: Stephanie | April 11, 2009, 9:50 pm 9:50 pm
To Connie Garcia
Empathy is feeling what other people.
Jesus lives for that. He teaches us to “Love your neighbor as yourself” and to love even those who hate you.
He calls us to do the impossible, yes.
But through God all things are possible. If you will read the Gospels you will see what being good really is.
Posted by: Stephanie | April 11, 2009, 10:53 pm 10:53 pm
All this talk about rights and homosexuality and being Hispanic? most countries don’t care what race you are, and even if they do they can’t legally fire you or deny you a job because of it. Whereas, in countries like mine, i dare you to take one step off that plane and declare yourself “homosexual” and see how long you last. I commend Mr. Obama for this accomplishment…i hope he gets through to the Jamaican government.
Posted by: Andrea | April 12, 2009, 1:20 pm 1:20 pm
And to all you people talking about “homosexuality is wrong in God’s eyes and blah blah”. Don’t you forget that it was you same God that says to “Love”. Obama does not hate homosexuals…that does not make him any less of a Christian, probably makes him more of it than any of you could ever be.
Posted by: Andrea | April 12, 2009, 1:23 pm 1:23 pm
What makes them wrong? They love, they cry, they bleed. We do it to. Maybe God’s grander point is to love everyone and live together. Judging seems to be a bad idea. Look up SSgt Alva, Tom Dooley MD, Alan Turing. They did great things. They are honorable people. What have you done with your life?
Posted by: hguaL | April 26, 2009, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm