Oh, The Irony...

[desertvixen]

 from fstdt.com (http://www.fstdt.com/fundies/comments.aspx?q=35840) :

[A commentary about Barack Obama's support for civil unions, which Mr. Obama believes the sermon on the mount justifies]

Pastor John Barner, manager of pastoral care at Focus on the Family, said: "We are always saddened as evangelical Christians when others who identify themselves as Christians do not have the high view of Scripture that we believe is so important. We believe isolated portions of Scripture should not be used to justify a personal preference or a social position that goes in a different direction than the overall message of Scripture.

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Let's check this one, folks.  Focus on the Family is telling us not to cherry-pick passages from the Bible. 

Excuse me, I have to go laugh my ass off.

If anyone was suffering from an irony deficiency, you should be fine now.

DV

Comments

[daveamongus.livejournal.com]

No doubt, wow.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. It's like the sedevacantists and right-wing near-schismatics who point fingers at us and call us "Cafeteria Catholics".

[cynthia1960.livejournal.com]

They're the only ones who get to cherry-pick, the rest of us aren't qualified or "right with God" enough to do so. They can bite my shiny metal rat butt.

Happily, I am Lutheran

[carbonelle.livejournal.com]

Well, they're still right... "Scripture interprets scripture"

Whether or not that applies to anything Mr. Obama has said recently, would have to involve me reading/listening to stump speeches (his included)

Re: Happily, I am Lutheran

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

The irony part would be that groups like Focus on the Family and people like James Dobson have chosen to focus on the homosexuality issue, and decay of the nuclear family due to stuff like divorce, and yet ignore the actual words of Jesus Christ.

The stuff like treating others as you would be treated, loving your neighbor... the stuff that doesn't make for a good scary speech.

DV

Re: Happily, I am Lutheran

[carbonelle.livejournal.com]

I suppose Dr. Dobson and "Focus on the Family" must be involved in politics somehow, ala the Moral Majority, but I've managed to miss most of that (I also tend to avoid the bottom-feeders on teh Intranets, which too sadly includes not only people who call themselves Christians, but who may well be Christians, albeit deeply, deeply confused ones*)

So far, what I've seen of "Focus on the Family" are the excerpts printed in our Church bulletin (which are all about "The stuff like The stuff like treating others as you would be treated, loving your neighbor") and a teen magazine (Brio) which, ditto.

Is it possible that you're conflating Dr. Dobson & his magazine with the creeps who put up sites like "godhatesgays.com"? I only ask that, because I know Orson Scott Card is frequently conflated with these people, and unlike Dr. Dobson, and I familiar with nearly all of Orson Scott Card's writings. I may disagree with some of his opinions, but all of them appear to be solidly founded in a desire for "The stuff like treating others as you would be treated, loving your neighbor" etc.)


(*Necessary caveat: I've done and said so many things that, in hindsight, were wrong, that I hesitate to write about anyone as "not a Real^TM Christian. Maybe they are! Maybe they just badly misunderstand something. Maybe they're jerks about something and, by the Grace of God, are on the mend, but it's still pretty bad! One can't know, and so barring such claims as "How can you say I'm not a Christian, just because I claim Jesus never really existed") I'd just as soon not make public judgements on the matter.)