WND.com editor Joseph Farah has
criticized singer Elton John for saying Jesus would support gay
marriage.
“If Jesus Christ was alive today I
cannot see him as the Christian person that he was and the great
person that he was, saying [marriage equality] could not happen,”
John said last week. “He was all about love and compassion and
forgiveness and trying to bring people together and that's what the
church should be about.”
(Related: Elton
John says Jesus would support marriage equality.)
Farah offered John – and President
Barack Obama – some “tough love” on the issue.
“Elton John, meet the real Jesus –
not the Jesus of your imagination and self-justification,” Farah
wrote in a column titled Elton John, Meet Jesus.
“Not only has man put asunder
individual marriages, but people like Elton John, Barack Obama and a
host of judges have, some in the name of Jesus, attempted to put
asunder the entire concept of marriage.”
“[W]hat Elton John is advocating and
practicing is something more than just the practice of an
'abomination' and a 'vile practice.' He's also promoting the
profaning of marriage, an institution Jesus said was created by God
in the Garden of Eden.”
After saying that he wanted to “lay
some cards on the table” in the “spirit of tough love, designed
to save people from really bad decisions,” Farah called marriage
equality an “oxymoron.”
“What today's proponents of same-sex
marriage seek to do is redefine marriage, claiming this institution
that has long been seen as the literal building block of civilized,
productive and self-governing societies is 'discriminatory' because
it prohibits homosexuals from participating. Nothing could be more
absurd.”
“Please tell me how a same-sex couple
consummates one of these make-believe marriages? Acts of sodomy were
never considered consummation in the eyes of the law. Again, this
suggests that whatever it is the homosexual activists are trying to
achieve through their relentless campaign, it is not marriage. It
would have to be some complete and utter corruption of the idea of
marriage.”
“It's time to lay it on the line with
some plain talk: Two men cannot marry each other because they cannot
consummate that union. Period. End of story. Two women cannot
marry each other because they cannot consummate that union. Period.
End of story.”