Manny Pacquiao Uses Bible to Rebuke Obama's Support for Gay Marriage

By Christine Thomasos , Christian Post Reporter

May 13, 2012|10:22 am

(Photo: Reuters/Romeo Ranoco)

World Boxing Organization welterweight champion and congressman Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines gestures during a press conference in Manila in this March 26, 2012 file photo

Manny Pacquiao, Christian Filipino boxer and congressman, has reportedly disagreed with President Barack Obama's support of redefining marriage to include same-sex couples, and has insisted people should always put God's word first.

After Obama vocalized that he was in support of gay marriage earlier this week, Pacquiao was adamant that the president had got it wrong. In an interview with the National Conservative Examiner while training in Los Angeles, Calif., Pacquiao spoke about the need for society to put "God's words first."

The boxer quoted Leviticus 20:13 when referring to the president's decision to advocate for same-sex marriage.

"If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable," Pacquiao told the Examiner. "They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads."

However, Obama has attempted to explain his reasoning for supporting a redefinition of marriage, using the Golden Rule of loving your neighbor as justification for ignoring other verses condemning homosexuality in the Bible.

"Do unto others as you would have them do to you," the president said in an ABC News report. "At a certain point I've just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married."

While the 33-year-old boxer said he respected Obama, he told the Examiner that the president should read the bible or "manual of life" to better society.

"God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other," Pacquiao said. "It should not be of the same sex so as to adulterate the altar of matrimony, like in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah of Old."

Pacquiao, nicknamed "Pacman," is a Roman Catholic who has talked recently about ending his fighting career to focus on his religious beliefs. The boxer told ABS-CBN News that his fight against Timothy Bradley Jr. at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on June 9 might be the last of his career.

Corte Suprema de California: No habrá más "matrimonios" homosexuales

SAN FRANCISCO, 26 May. 09 / 01:41 pm (ACI)

La Corte Suprema de California, Estados Unidos, falló hoy que la Proposición 8, que recibió en las últimas elecciones el voto mayoritario, es constitucional y consagra la unión matrimonial como aquella entre un hombre y una mujer en este estado. Sin embargo, este fallo precisa también que se respetará los "matrimonios" homosexuales anteriores a la enmienda.

El fallo de la Corte Suprema precisa que "la Proposición 8, una iniciativa aprobada por la mayoría de votantes en las elecciones del 4 de noviembre de 2008, añadió una nueva sección –la 7.5– al artículo I de la Constitución de California, estableciendo en ella que 'Sólo el matrimonio entre un hombre y una mujer es válido y reconocido en California'. Esta medida entró en vigor el 5 de noviembre de 2008".

Tras el estudio de los argumentos a favor y en contra de la inconstitucionalidad de este medida que ha llevado a que la Corte se pronuncie con esta sentencia, se precisa en la misma que "concluimos que cada uno de los argumentos contrarios a la Proposición 8 ingresados por distintos solicitantes y el Fiscal General carecen de sustento. Habiendo sido aprobada por la mayoría de los votantes en la elección del 4 de noviembre de 2008, la iniciativa enmienda legalmente la Constitución de California para incluir la nueva provisión como el artículo I, sección 7.5".

Sin embargo, el mismo fallo precisa también que esta nueva sección "no puede ser interpretada ni aplicada retroactivamente". Por esta razón, los cerca de 14 mil "matrimonios" homosexuales de California "realizados antes de la fecha efectiva de la Proposición 8 siguen siendo válidos y deben ser reconocidos como tales en este estado".