Can we trust Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on Morality Issues? by Jonas Clark

Homosexuality is not immoral, according to Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama. At least that was what they said after gay and lesbian Democrats pressured them to denounce General Peter Pace’s claim that same-sex relationships were wrong in March 2007. Soon after Hillary Clinton posted on her Web site, “I have heard from many of my friends in the gay community that my response yesterday to a question about homosexuality being immoral sounded evasive.” To clear up matters she said, “Homosexuality is not immoral. … That is what I believe.” Barack Obama following suit also released a statement saying, “I do not agree with General Pace that homosexuality is immoral. Attempts to divide people like this have consumed too much of our politics over the past six years.”

Remarks by the 2008 presidential candidates differed dramatically from their comments on the same issue just a week before. On Tuesday March 11, 2007, an ABC reporter asked Clinton whether homosexuality is immoral, and she replied: “Well, I am going to leave that to others to conclude.”

So who is General Pace and what exactly did he say? First, Marine General Peter Pace was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As such, he was the principal military advisor to the President of the United States, the Secretary of Defense and the National Security Council. Second, he defended the U.S. military’s ban on openly homosexual members and shared his personal view that homosexual activity, like adultery, is immoral and should not be tolerated in the military. He stated, “I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is okay to be immoral in any way… As an individual, I would not want [acceptance of gay behavior] to be our policy, just like I would not want it to be our policy that if we were to find out that so-and-so was sleeping with somebody else’s wife, that we would just look the other way, which we do not. We prosecute that kind of immoral behavior.”

One can only imagine just how politically incorrect, yet morally correct his statement was. While defending the military’s rule against homosexuality he suffered a barrage of attacks from those who found his statements offensive. In response to General Pace, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi exclaimed, “We don’t need moral judgment from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.” Backing up Pelosi, Senator John Warner of Virginia declared that he “strongly disagrees with the Chairman’s view that homosexuality is immoral.”

This is an example of Kingdom culture under attack. Homosexuality is in fact immoral in every sense of the word. What the God-haters despise is the source of morality – Almighty God. It is Scripture that defines Christ’s Kingdom culture and presents the guidelines for righteous behavior. Scripture says, “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error…” (Romans 1:26-27). So according to the highest rule of law, homosexuality is in fact immoral. I commend General Pace for his stance for moral conduct and appreciate that kind of leadership in our military. Sadly soon after, General Pace resigned.