A Pastor Asks A Politician Why He Supports Gay Marriage. It Seems He Wasn't Prepared For His Reply.

[Drale]

Destroyed!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. He is calm, organized, and Right On. Very well done!

[PNW_Dem]

27. Agreed, a great example of how to effectively convey the progressive position.

[LiberalLovinLug]

2. Bravo

I wish we'd see more of this from our politicians.

[tecelote]

3. Excellent!

A few weeks back someone posted a sign from a church that said something like this...

"Jesus had two fathers and he turned out all right"

It's about time Christians started acting like Christians.

[SunSeeker]

21. Love that! nt

[ZombieHorde]

4. That was a pretty good answer, in my opinion. nt

[Sanity Claws]

5. Great answer and great delivery of the answer

The person who asked the question had wild eyes. He hardly blinked.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

6. I like the comment at the end:

"KRudd just pulled a Jed Bartlet on that guy"

[DreamSmoker]

7. I agree

Bump

[stonecutter357]

8. K&R

[azureblue]

9. the part that is most telling

is when this idiot tries to bend something Jesus said about marriage to fit his bigotry, and stammers, realizing he is making a fool of himself. When results in that frozen look on his face for the rest of the show, when he then realizes that the whole world sees him as a bigot and the camera is still on him.

[antigop]

10. Thank you! That was a wonderful delivery. nt

[Major Nikon]

11. The mental health community decided homosexuality wasn't abnormal back in the 70's

Welcome to the party. Slow thinkers keep right.

[nilram]

12. Nice! Worth the 4 minutes to listen.

[redstatebluegirl]

13. Excellent Response!

So calm and caring, he wasn't loud or in your face he just answered the question from his heart and mind... the mind part is what is missing with the man who asked the question.

[ErikJ]

14. What does "pols in the new testament" mean? --at 2:50-55?

[cate94]

16. He says nothing about pols

He says "what Paul says.." lol

[shenmue]

17. 'St. Paul said in the New Testament'

It's a reference to one of St. Paul's letters.

[ErikJ]

18. Thanks. And St. Paul is the one who founded Christianity!

[MissMarple]

20. Paul did not "found" Christianity.

According to the Bible he became an apostle after Jesus Christ rose from the dead. That is why he is called the Apostle Paul. Peter was considered by Jesus the "Rock" on which the church was built. At least as I recall from Catechism and Sunday School.

The quote is from Ephesians 5:6-9. Google is your friend.

[ErikJ]

24. Most modern scholars say Paul founded Christianity

I had heard this 25 years ago. Paul had a vision of Jesus in Damascus being ressurected and the Savior.

Jesus and Paul: Figurehead and Founder of Christianity
Posted: 02/ 3/2012 HuffPost, Robert Orlando

................Gerd Ludemann states, "Without Paul there would be no church and no Christianity. He's the most decisive person that shaped Christianity as it developed. Without Paul we would have had reformed Judaism... but no Christianity."

While there was overlap between Paul and Jesus, there were also large divides between Pauline Christianity and Judean Christianity, which only grows -- if you trace Paul's letters in chronological order -- into a full-blown chasm by the end of his life.

................However, the central theme fusing the life of Paul in his letters with Jesus from the Gospels was the coming Kingdom of God; one tradition found in the Synoptic Gospels has -- on the supposed lips of Jesus "in red letters" -- the expectation of a sudden return in his lifetime.

This "visitation" was not the Jewish understanding of the general resurrection. When Paul confronted Jesus in his Damascus vision, he also faced a new idea of resurrection -- but there was no kingdom, no destruction of Rome, no end times. In other words, there were no signs of Jewish Messiah.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-orlando/jesus-and-paul-figurehead_b_1245254.html

[MissMarple]

25. OK

[shenmue]

15. Yaay!

Win and awesome.

[Arugula Latte]

19. Good for the politician, but

the planet is billions of years old and modern humans have been around for maybe a couple hundred thousand. It is patently pathetic that a silly bit of 2,000-year-old leftover mythology from the primitive and isolated desert-dwelling people of ancient Judea is still brought into the mix.

[MissMarple]

22. Well, it does have something of a continuing appeal.

It is just a way of trying to connect with the divine. People will continue to do that, some more than others, of course. Then there are the ones who use religion to control others and justify their prejudices and actions. That's different.

[hamsterjill]

23. He is absolutely, 100% right.

I agree with him 100% in my own good, Christian conscience.

I do not understand those Christians who insist on promoting hate. I stipulate and agree that so many do (so I don't need to be reminded of that here), but I simply do not understand how (like this speaker) the very essence of Christianity can be lost to them. The very essence of Christianity is that we love and care for one another.

[roamer65]

28. You are 100 pct right.

[MrMickeysMom]

26. WELL.... there you have it....

Next Question?

[Voice for Peace]

29. I don't think he was destroyed.

I think he was given some delicious food for thought
and in my opinion seemed receptive.

Very nice post!

[AAO]

30. If ur not wIlling to love your fellow man - go fuck yourself !!