America’s worst ex-president in history (who only has 2 years left to keep that title) is out there bloviating agin. This time Jimmy Carter claims that Jesus Christ approves of gay marriage.
You read that right. Jimmy Carter thinks Jesus approves of gay marriage quite despite the fact that the Bible itself condemns homosexuality.
The one-term Democratic president noted that he was opposed to abortion, because he did not believe Jesus would approve. “Would Jesus approve gay marriage?” asked host Marc Lamont Hill.
“I believe he would, I believe Jesus would,” Carter said, before cautioning, “I don’t have any verse in scripture…”
“No no no, just intuitively, yeah,” Hill agreed.
“I believe that Jesus would approve of gay marriage, but I’m not– that’s just my own personal belief,” he concluded. “I think Jesus would approve of any love affair that was honest and sincere, and was not damaging to anyone else. And I don’t think that gay marriage damages anyone else.”
He thinks he knows what Jesus thinks?
Just to be clear:
- Leviticus 18:22, “You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.”1
- Leviticus 20:13, “If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltness is upon them.”
- 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, “Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”
- Romans 1:26-28, “For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. 28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper.”