Ever since President Barack Obama expressed support for same-sex marriage by lighting up the White House with rainbow colors to celebrate the United States Supreme Court’s ruling that the American Constitution does, in fact, grant same-sex couples the right to marry, religious bigots have been warning that Obama will be mercilessly punished by God.
Franklin Graham, one of the most popular evangelists in the country, recently said that Obama was purposely setting himself up in opposition to God by supporting homosexuals.
Earlier this month, on his Facebook page, Graham (who is known for relentlessly preaching against gays and lesbians) attacked the subject yet again. “He had the gall to disgrace the White House by lighting it up with the gay pride rainbow colors,” Graham wrote. “This is arrogantly flaunting sinful behavior in the face of Almighty God. My advice? He might want to have some extra lightning rods installed on the roof of the White House.”
In all probability, Graham drew his reference from a certain translation of the Bible, Hosea 6:5. “This is why I have used the prophets to cut them down; I have killed them with the words of My mouth. My judgment strikes like lightning,” the translation reads.
Graham, who has millions of followers on social media, routinely receives hundreds and thousands of likes and shares for his postings. Earlier, he had criticized Obama’s precedent-setting promotion of alternative sexual lifestyles and those posts went viral in no time.
However, Graham was not the only bigot to warn that God will judge a nation that has openly and willingly flouted what the Bible and other religious texts define as sin. Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, too, criticized the Supreme Court’s authority to redefine marriage as opposed to what different holy texts have defined the union as.
At a prayer event in Washington, he said, “The justices of the Supreme Court took up their seats [in a hearing] on whether they should strike down the biblical and historic definition of marriage. That the event should even take place is a sign this is America of [George] Washington’s warning … a nation at war against its own foundation… Justices, can you judge the ways of God? There is another court and there another judge, where all men and all judges will give account… If a nation’s high court should pass judgment on the Almighty, should you then be surprised God will pass judgment on the court and that nation? We are doing that which Israel did on the altars of Baal.”
Cahn also reiterated how America’s biblical foundation has been affirmed throughout history as the nation that came into being only for the glory and purpose of the Almighty.
“No historian can rewrite that. No president can expunge that,” he warned. “If a thousand angels swore on a thousand Bibles that this was not the case, it would in no way alter the fact. …America was brought into existence for the will and purposes of God.”
He went on to explain how ancient Israel had committed similar sins by turning away from God and separating him from governance. “They drove God out of the government. They worshiped idols and served other gods. They celebrated immorality and they persecuted righteousness. The blessings of God were removed and replaced with judgments,” he said.
Moving on to directly questioning Obama about his pro-homosexual and pro-abortion agenda that has been left unparalleled in American history, Cahn asked his audience to reflect upon what happens when their leader swears by the Bible to assume the highest office of the land and then goes on to enact laws that violate those very teachings. “Mr. President, when you address the House, look up above the senators and the representatives, above the Supreme Court justices; you’ll see a face, the only full visage in that wall. It is the face of Moses. … It would say this, ‘No man can overrule the laws of God. No judgment of man can stand against the judgment of God’.”
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