HAS OBAMA PLACED AMERICA UNDER THE JUDGMENT OF GOD?

Obama shaking fist at God

May 11, 2012
Michael Gordom
The Charlotte Obsrver

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – In another provocative comment aimed at Barack
Obama, evangelist Franklin Graham on Thursday accused the president of
having “shaken his fist” at God by changing his position on same-sex
marriage.

“It grieves me that our president would now affirm same-sex marriage,
though I believe it grieves God even more,” Graham said in a prepared
statement.
“This is a sad day for America. May God help us.”

On Tuesday, North Carolina became the 31st state to ratify a
constitutional amendment designed to block same-sex marriage.

The next day, amid an online clamor to move the Democratic National
Convention from Charlotte, the president changed his longstanding
position against same-sex unions.

“At a certain point, I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is
important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples
should be able to get married,” Obama told ABC News.

He said he had changed his mind after having talked with his family
and friends.

Graham, however, said God created and defined marriage.

It “should not be defined by presidents or polls, governors or the
media. The definition was set long ago and changing legislation or
policy will never change God’s definition.”

The Rev. Murdoch Smith, pastor of St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in
Charlotte, challenged Graham’s view, saying “I am always suspect when
someone says that they know the mind of God.”

“President Obama stated that his position was evolving because he was
open to what all sides had to say on marriage equality,” Smith said
Thursday. “That openness ... brought him to the conclusion that God
blesses all who commit to one another in his presence.”

Graham, who now runs his father’s evangelistic association, had
publicly criticized the president on spiritual matters before.

In February, during an interview on MSNBC, Graham questioned whether
Obama is a Christian, adding that “Islam has gotten a free pass” under
the current administration.

He was heavily criticized, particularly by African-American ministers,
and later apologized.

When running for the U.S. Senate and in his first presidential
campaign four years ago, Obama said he opposed same-sex marriage,
partly on religious reasons, partly “because I thought that civil
unions would be sufficient,” he said in the Wednesday interview.

Obama’s presumptive challenger for the White House, former
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, says he opposes same-sex marriage and
favors an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to forbid it.

N.C voters passed their state amendment with 61 percent of the vote.

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