Obama was asked by a pastor how he thought he would be able to attract evangelicals when they disagree with him on a number of issues.

“I believe in civil unions that allow a same-sex couple to visit each other in a hospital or transfer property to each other,” he said, referring to unions that grant all the legal benefits of marriage, minus the name. “I don’t think it should be called marriage, but I think that it is a legal right that they should have that is recognized by the state. If people find that controversial, then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount, which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, more central than an obscure passage in Romans. That’s my view. But we can have a respectful disagreement on that.”

It’s pretty obvious from the quote that Obama is liberal in his theology, liberal theology pits Paul against the words of Jesus and the Sermon on the Mount is the pinnacle of Christianity. Christianity becomes the social gospel of helping the poor and the helpless. But when you read Paul and the other Epistles along with the Old Testament, you get a fuller picture of what Christianity is about, the social gospel is not it.
His comment about the “obscure passage in Romans” is amusing when you think about how widely accepted the interpretation of the passage has been throughout the course of church history. There is no obscurity in the text that blurs its meaning. But don’t take my word for it, decide for yourself:

Romans 1:24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

I find it interesting that he is addressing the easier problem that evangelicals would have with his presidency, his abortion position is much more unacceptable to evangelicals since he supports infanticide after an unsuccessful abortion. I can’t see how an appeal to the Sermon on the Mount can help him with that one.
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