Obama Faith-Based Advisor Insults Pope, Catholics, People With Any Moral Sense at All
Tags: Morality.
Harry Knox, a member of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, has stood by his past comment that Pope Benedict XVI is “hurting people in the name of Jesus.”
Knox, a former licensed minister of the United Methodist Church and a leader with the homosexual activist group Human Rights Campaign (HRC), originally made his comments in March 2009 in response to Pope Benedict’s comments about the effectiveness of condoms in fighting AIDS in Africa…
…In March 2009, Dr. Green told CNA that researchers cannot find an association between more condom use and lower HIV rates. He has also written that programs to increase fidelity in relationships and to reduce the number of sex partners are effective.
Previously, Knox has described Pope Benedict XVI and certain Catholic bishops as “discredited leaders” because of their opposition to same-sex “marriage.”
Though acknowledging the Knights of Columbus’ “good works,” he also called the Catholic fraternal order’s members “foot soldiers of a discredited army of oppression” because of the organization’s support for the successful California ballot measure Proposition 8…
Way to change the tone, there, and bring us all together. I feel the love. Is there anyone in the Obama Administration who isn’t an ass or a fool?
Anyways…
We know the drill – for the left, the way to cure the problems caused by immorality is to make immorality more prevalent. Thus the leftist response to teen pregnancy is to teach teens how to have sex and their response to the spread of AIDS is to work out ways where African men can remain promiscuous but feel like they are safe. We’re the “discredited army of oppression” because we dare to point out that the sure fire way to cure the problems caused by immorality is to try and be a bit more moral.
While we are called to be perfect as our Heavenly Father is perfect, in practical terms we are only expected to try, day by day, to do a little better than the day before. Liberals bought the lie that we can be as gods, and when this boomerangs on them their response is to get angry with those of us who pointed out the error. Meanwhile, people are dying – but that is ok because they are poor, brown-skinned people that liberals never meet in Manhattan or DC or San Francisco…their deaths might be bad, but more important is to adhere to the notion that self-control is the worst thing possible.
And, of course, these people have found a home in the Obama Administration. How am I, as a Catholic, supposed to work with such people? I realize that no matter how gross the insult I am to forgive – and that is something I can and will do. But when Obama says he wants people like me to join him in partnership to make America better, what am I supposed to do? Grin like an idiot when some fool makes a bigoted statement about me and mine?
I don’t think so. There are many steps President Obama can take to make it more likely that Christians of an orthodox stripe will give him a hearing – and one of the first he can do is get rid of Harry Knox.
Mark Noonan is co-author (with Matt Margolis) of Caucus of Corruption: The Truth About The New Democratic Majority. He also blogs at Nevada News and Views. Follow Mark on Twitter.
35 Responses to “Obama Faith-Based Advisor Insults Pope, Catholics, People With Any Moral Sense at All”
Caucus of Corruption
sodomites put too much into the importance of this sexual diversity issue…its a social issue…society has no business celebrating the perversion or the selfish use of the human reproductive system…they need to park it…get back in the closet…and allow society to advance…its a social issue…that does not belong in schools…schools are for education…social issues of this nature…should be confined to those of a level of maturity which is not normal in most schools…or…colleges…for that matter…where we should be advancing the education of our children instead of the perversion of the sodomites…
js, schools are, for the most part, left-wing indocrination camps. End of…
story.
every catholic I know, in a heavily catholic area, says the pope shoulda kept his mouth shut (even if he believes it) about condoms in aids-ravaged africa.
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“While we are called to be perfect as our Heavenly Father is perfect…”
>>God created our bodies AND our sex drives. who says Jesus didn’t make love? he was fully man & obviously healthy in the prime of life. and just because some old dude’s sex-drive is shut-down doesn’t mean everybody’s should be.
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“Meanwhile, people are dying – but that is ok because they are poor, brown-skinned people that liberals never meet in Manhattan or DC or San Francisco…their deaths might be bad, but more important is to adhere to the notion that self-control is the worst thing possible.”
>>no its not ok & condoms r effective stopping STD’s. my first sgt threw ‘em at his troops before every liberty saying “if u need a shot on monday, ur a$$ is mine!”
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fortunately condom distribution in africa carries on regardless.
fortunately condom distribution in africa carries on regardless
Unfortunately, your parents didn’t use ‘em nine months before you became a failed abortion…
OO,
Jesus was a man without sin and as he never married, he never had sex. Period. End of stupid theory.
Anyways…
The Pope is right and the suicidal idiots who argue that passing out condoms works are wrong.
mark – as I’ve said before in discussions w u, the bible familar to the lay flock is heavily redacted (council of trent 1 & 2), re-translated lost nuance, pc version of a much larger story.
my father schooled me on the original greek texts including gnostic & ethiopian.
there’s alot about Jesus not taught outside seminaries.
the pope is mistaken & the catholics I know feel the same.
I beg to differ. There is much evidence that Jesus did marry and that fact has been drowned out and drummed out because it became an imperative that Christ, was by a decison of church leaders 1600 years ago, divine and that his sexuality became taboo.
Christ married Himself to the Church (all those who have been born-again through His precious blood made as redemption for their sin, from the first to the last).
Ephesians 5:25 – “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her”.
God’s design for marriage is for a husband to love his wife the way Christ loves his people, and for the wife to respond the way Christ’s people should. This kind of love is possible because Christ died for both husband and wife.
…gnostic and ethopian…
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Well there you go. Gnostic texts/beliefs were the same as todays militant agnostics….willing to lie and say whatever they want in order to deny Christ and the truth, and ridicule Christians.
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You show your true colors when you say “nuance, pc version of a much larger story, heavily redacted. Typical militant agnostic.
Sadie, And you have no proof, written or otherwise that the bible is not true. So you can cut the superiority act.
actually…sadieblochpain…has no proof that Jesus ever married…like it claims…actual proof is indisputable evidence…all she has is a movie…thats been acknowledged as pure fiction…
js01
I agree with you 100%
THE POPE was CORRECT and spot on.
00
do you ever stop with the race and age shit?
Deleted: As ageist and racist comments will continue to be deleted. Those who insist on making them will simply find their posts removed without comment.
OO,
The reason the Gnostic texts weren’t used was because they are BS…your father ill-served you if he spoon fed you that rancid garbage…what’s next? You gonna start believing that the Da Vinci Code is real?
Love how some people think they know more than tens of thousands of others who have carefully studied the matter…
Mark,
Yes, the Gnostics were cults that had arisen after Christ, offered as alternatives to the original biblical worldview. One part of the Gnostic worldview says that the world is not but evil-not something they should investigate, but something from which spiritual seekers should seek to escape. Thus, many people sought to dismiss sin, which is, in and of itself a departure from the made good, and to obey God’s command, the One who made all things good. In other words, many people went with their own morality to create what we see today in a sin-sick world.
Hey, you’d better be careful about orrin now that he has added “Army Ranger” to his fantasy persona.
Claiming to be a “degreed professional” didn’t seem to get much attention, if you disallow the snickers and speculation that any degree orrin might get would have to be from Text U.
orrin has always been a misfit, and now that he has been taken under the wing of the ultimate misfit, maggotyanne (in much the way the RRL recruits such misfits for their little hate-army) he is feeling quite full of himself. A supposedly hot chick, supposedly half black, supposedly thinks he is quite the thing, and he is gobbling up and regurgitating her ageism thing to impress her.
But hate is all the RRL ever has so we can’t be surprised when that is their default position on every subject.
Personally, I think all religious figures should stick to religion and not try to inject their own religious opinions into secular matters. From an objective point of view, the use of condoms has not slowed the advancement of AIDS any more than sex education has slowed the amount or degree of sexual activity in children.
The Left is notoriously bad at solving problems, unerringly opting for a politically correct approach which usually just makes the problem worse.
Attacking a prelate on the claim that he is just hurting people is just as bad, and is inexcusable and just another example of the anti-religious tactic of the RRL as they try to eliminate all the challenges to having the State as the only authority figure in the lives of its subjects.
“From an objective point of view, the use of condoms has not slowed the advancement of AIDS any more than sex education has slowed the amount or degree of sexual activity in children.”
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this cannot be proven since one cant prove that which didn’t happen.
in other words, one cant prove a negative.
another example of mis-understood scientific methodology.
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the rest of ur post is ad hom.
“this cannot be proven since one cant prove that which didn’t happen.”
Wrong. It can be proved. It did happen.
nearly 19 million new sexually transmitted infections occur each year, and they affect half or more of 15 those 15 to 24. This, compared to the 6,000 per year in the 1950s when biblically based abstinence was taught in schools.
In the 1960s, when the new and radical left emerged, was the time they called the “sexual revolution” and sexually transmitted diseases started to rise 10,000, 20,000, 50,000, 75,000, 100,000, 200,000, 400,000, 900,000, 2,000,000, 10,000,000, 15,000,000, and now 20,000,000 at the current. And those numbers come from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Why, you say? Well, for one, Planned Parenthood is teaching them to be promiscuous. That’s just one element of the problem. Not only do the public schools encourage children to be promiscuous…the production of pornography on the Internet and on book-stands remain the largest supporters of contracting sexually transmitted diseases.
So here is the way to fix this problem if America wishes to have a brighter future … bring back the Comstock laws, and bring back biblically based abstinence like it was in the early 1950s in our schools.
Hey, you’d better be careful about orrin now that he has added “Army Ranger” to his fantasy persona.
Probably Army Rump-Ranger. That’s why he got all excited when the First Shirt said “your ass is mine…”
We know the drill – for the left, the way to cure the problems caused by immorality is to make immorality more prevalent.
They’ve been defining morality down since the sixties. They want the Constitution to change; they expect the Church to evolve to suit their “if it feels good, do it” mantra.
And now OO the slumlord is pining for his first sgt…
Keef
And now OO the slumlord is pining for his first sgt…
LOL I always suspected ole 00 got booted by dont ask dont tell….
and who exactly are you to tell anyone about morality…you push killing unborn children…sodomy…perversion of the public education system into a social experiment for sexual deviant behavior…and you wanna tell some one about what…no dignity…no honor…no respect for life…you are just a lip service whore…a rhetoric juke box…
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its gotta be a joke right…you…telling anybody…about morals…
js, who are you addressing here?
Keef
this is 00 in boot camp as private cowboy
(Warning the video contains some boot camp language not for all)
naw, more like private pyle.
sadie takes the “this is my rifle, this is my gun…” routine to heart.
sadie hasn’t seen any “guns” recently, I suspect, except for, maybe, “BOB…”
http://moretexastruth.blogspot.com/2008/10/full-medal-jacket-r-lee-emery-6-minute.html
Love how some people think they know more than tens of thousands of others who have carefully studied the matter…
They’re libs, Mark. they’re smarter than anybody else in the room, because Air America, Huffington, and Keith Olberman told them so. And you know OO, aka Private Pyles, is smarter that us–he can use that cryptic text language far better than any teenaged little girl or boy can. Gee, that’s probably why he uses it…
Amazing how a liberal can twist a Bible verse to fit their perverted whim.
For the left, the way to cure the problems caused by immorality is to pass a law and legalize it.
I think he was addressing sadie … but I think her comment has disappeared.
If only she would…
strange how that…keeps happining…
Amen! :)