Rev. Louie Giglio, founder of the Passion Conferences of
Atlanta, was invited to deliver the benediction at President Obama’s
inauguration but due to an “anti-gay” sermon he gave 15-20 years ago, he withdrew
his acceptance so as not to cause a stir and detract from the inauguration
ceremony.
In his sermon in the mid-1990s, Giglio did call
homosexuality a sin and said that the healing power of Jesus was the only way
out of a homosexual lifestyle.
Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League quickly
jumped on the issue and said Obama should swear on a copy of Marx’s Das Kapital
book instead of the Christian Bible since the Bible calls homosexuality a sin
and Marx was an avowed atheist and the father of Communism…
The debate quickly heated up and was covered on all the
major news networks.
It appears Obama had nothing to do with the controversy and
actually asked the Inauguration Committee to reconsider but the damage was
already done.
There are a number of sides to this issue and a big one is
that Giglio’s sermon was from such a long time ago and no one asked Giglio if
he still held those views about homosexuality; an important question since many
people have come to accept the fact that people are born homosexual and do not
choose to become homosexual since choosing a homosexual lifestyle is a very
absurd premise.
Many Christian denominations now believe that the Bible (Old
Testament) does not specifically call homosexuality a sin (or abomination) and
we all know how anybody and everybody can always interpret the Bible to suite
their own viewpoint.
I guess the big question is should an anti-gay Christian
minister give the benediction at the inauguration of a Christian president who
is not anti-gay…I think not and so Giglio was right to decline the invitation.
As to Donohue (who is such an ass), he exemplifies the bad
and stupid side of American Catholicism, the side that blindly follows Vatican
pronouncements, no matter how absurd they are and thinks their Christianity is
the only “true” and “correct” Christianity…and you wonder why so many Catholics
are abandoning their faith?
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