sic semper tyrannis

The spineless one is Barack Hussein Obama, who will say and do anything to please the people he happens to be in front of at the moment. The immediate subject is gay marriage. I’m against it, because the term has no meaning: marriage is between one man and one woman. Period.

However, my position has nothing to do with BHO’s lack of spine. If he were in favor of gay marriage, then he and John McCain could have a substantive debate on the topic. Or not, since Obama is a coward in such matters and won’t debate without so many preconditions that he might as well be meeting with the leader of Iran. Oh, right, wrong example…no preconditions for dictators.

Via NRO’s Campaign Spot, the two opposing sides of the issue, both from BHO:

1. Letter to a gay group: Finally, I want to congratulate all of you who have shown your love for each other by getting married these last few weeks.
2. March 2, 2008 Town Hall Meeting: “I don’t believe in gay marriage”

He could get out of this with some classic Clinton fast talking: it depends on what “believe” means…This is classic Obama. You are left with not knowing what, exactly, he supports. Flip-flops? Worse. No spine.

Richard Cohen has brewed up the perfect liberal storm about the moral equivalence of Christianity and Islam. That’s not his stated purpose in his column today, of course. And, to the uninformed reader, he’s simply making political points against John McCain. And in the process, doing great violence to the truth.

Where to begin? Cohen does so with Billy and Franklin Graham, who he accuses of anti-Semitism and islamophobia:

After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Franklin Graham called Islam a “very evil and wicked religion.” As preachers are wont to do, he amplified his remarks to include “mainstream” Islam, alleging that the Koran preaches violence. He is known throughout the Muslim world for these remarks and therefore is hardly a figure a presidential candidate should visit.

…In Franklin Graham’s case, his piety excuses his ignorance and intolerance — his slap at a worldwide religion of almost 2 billion because of the horrendous acts of a few. (emphasis added)

Love that “alleging that the Koran preaches violence.” Because that’s exactly what it does. And Cohen trots out the atheist-liberal canard about the Crusades. Who really gives a fuzzy white’s ass what Muslims think about the Crusades? They were undertaken because of continued Muslim expansion at the point of the sword.

Sorry about the inconvenient truth, Cohen, but Islam is a very evil and wicked religion. It is violent; it has been violent since its beginnings 1400 years ago. It exhorts its believers to kill the infidel, if it can not first force them to submit (the literal meaning of “Islam.”)

As for the Catholic massacres of Hugenots? True; evil. These were done in violation of our Scriptures. And they were done in the name of preserving the power of a human institution, the Roman Catholic Church. By and for men; not by and for God.

That’s the difference, Mr. Cohen. Our religion requires that we turn the other cheek, pray for our enemies. We fail. We are human. Their religion, Islam, requires the opposite — thay the force their enemies, the “infidels” to submit, convert, or be killed.

One last point — “the horrendous acts of a few [Muslims]” have been widely supported, and, more importantly, not resisted, by those 2 billion. What kind of an evil and wicked faith is it that allows murder in its name, and then does nothing about it?

Christians act to prevent murder. Muslims stand idly by, or send money to help the terrorists.