Do These Verses Apply?

[554 words] People find ways to get around verses that condemn them. Two groups with different agendas use the same maneuvers to reject passages that are against them. One is the homosexual movement and the other is the feminist movement. Here are some of their arguments . “I’ll Take Jesus Over Paul.” President Barack Obama was asked about same- sex unions in 2008. He gave his support for homosexuality, saying, “If people find that controversial, then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount, which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, more central than an obscure passage in Romans.” The “obscure” passage he referenced is Romans I:26-27. These verses say that women with women and men with men is “against nature.” There is nothing unclear about that. Romans is just as inspired as Matthew (John 16:12-13; 1 Cor. 14:37). The word “fornication” which Jesus used…