Okay, time to give Mike Huckabee some rare Dakota Voice props.
From the Outside the Beltway blog on Huckabee's appearance on Meet the Press:
From the Outside the Beltway blog on Huckabee's appearance on Meet the Press:
MR. RUSSERT: But this is what concerns people. This, this is what you did say about homosexuality: “I feel homosexuality is an aberrant, unnatural and sinful lifestyle.” That’s millions of Americans.
GOV. HUCKABEE: Tim, understand, when a Christian speaks of sin, a Christian says all of us are sinners. I’m a sinner, everybody’s a sinner. What one’s sin is, means it’s missing the mark. It’s missing the bull’s eye, the perfect point. I miss it every day; we all do. The perfection of God is seen in a marriage in which one man, one woman live together as a couple committed to each other as life partners. Now, even married couples don’t do that perfectly, so sin is not some act of equating people with being murderers or rapists…
MR. RUSSERT: But when you say aberrant or unnatural, do you believe you’re born gay or you choose to be gay?
GOV. HUCKABEE: I don’t know whether people are born that way. People who are gay say that they’re born that way. But one thing I know, that the behavior one practices is a choice.
The incredulity from Russert is palpable. Can you imagine it? Just because the Bible says something is wrong, we're to actually believe that it might really be wrong? What a concept! Especially in a country where 80-90% of people claim to be Christian.
Some people say certain people are genetically predisposed to be alcoholics. I don't believe that, but even if it were, human beings still possess the ability to make choices.
I used to be a drunk because I chose to drink to excess. For the past 15 years, I've made the choice not to drink. I've maintained that choice because, unlike an animal, God gave me the ability to think, to reason, to recognize counterproductive behavior, and to change my behavior.
Homosexuals can have the same freedom from their self-destructive behavior, and the Bible says so in 1 Corinthians 6:9-11:
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were.
Paul is talking to born-again church members here who used to be on the road to hell, as characterized by lifestyles of the listed behaviors. But now, Paul notes that these sinful behaviors were, not are.
Props to Huckabee for recognizing something that used to be common sense. And in this sheep-like politically correct culture, for the courage to say it.
3 comments:
Please run this guy!
Since when are 80-90% of American's Christian? Where did you pull that statistic from? I've heard that 80-90% of Americans believe in God, but it's a huge assumption to assume that means they are Christians. They could be Jewish or Muslim or another faith that believes in God.
Polls vary (which is why I gave the broad 80-90% range), but
Gallup published a poll right before Christmas that said 82% identified with
Christianity. Another poll taken a few years ago that I can't recall details of
at the moment, found 87% of South Dakotans said they were Christians.
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