As a Virginian for the last 14 years, I can tell you Tim Kaine has been fooling a lot of people in his home state for a long time.
I saw him elected as governor of the state in 2005. I saw him elected as U.S. senator in 2012.
Both times he ran as a "moderate" Democrat. He was so convincing in those bids for office that when he was named as Hillary Clinton's running mate earlier this year, many on the left had a cow.
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That was partially because, politically speaking, Kaine liked to have his cake and eat it, too. A Catholic raised in a missionary family, Kaine seems like a wholesome-middle-of-the-roader. It's a characterization he cultivates carefully, scrupulously – like when he was asked about abortion on "Meet the Press" back in June. His reply? "I don't like it personally. I'm opposed to abortion."
You know how that goes. It's an old trick he learned from Mario Cuomo.
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But that personal feeling has never restrained him from voting against any and all restrictions on abortion. In fact, he has a 100 percent voting record with NARAL Pro-Choice America. He has claimed to support the Hyde Amendment, which blocks taxpayer funding of abortion, yet he fully supports Hillary Clinton's agenda, which (along with the Democratic platform) promises to repeal it, forcing all taxpayers to subsidize a practice many of them believe to be sinful and immoral – to make them active participants in the act of terminating the lives of unborn babies.
If you want to get to know the real Tim Kaine, you need to watch him and listen to him when he's speaking to the most radical leftist audiences. That's when you find out what really makes him tick.
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Such was the case about 10 days ago when he spoke to the so-called Human Rights Campaign, whose main issue is promoting the invasion of our culture and legal system through sexual chaos.
Kaine told the audience "my support for marriage equality now – my full, complete, unconditional support for marriage equality – is at odds with the current doctrine of the church that I still attend. But I think that's going to change, too."
He wasn't suggesting that he was going to be leaving the Catholic Church or that he was going to get excommunicated from it because of his position on marriage. He was saying the church was going to change its wrongheaded position and get right with God on same-sex marriage.
Here's what he said: "I think it's going to change because my church also teaches me about a Creator – in the first chapter of Genesis – who surveys the entire world, including mankind, and said, 'It is very good. It is very good.' Pope Francis famously said, 'Who am I to judge?' And to that I want to add, 'Who am I to challenge God for the beautiful diversity of the human family?' I think we are supposed to celebrate it, not challenge it."
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Now, let's remember, when God rested on the seventh day and reflected on His Creation, there was only one person in the world – Adam. It wasn't until later that God created Eve as a mate for Adam. So there was no diversity among mankind. None, zip, zilch, nada.
There were plenty of animals, but only one person.
You have to get to Genesis 2 before Eve is created.
Then there were two people.
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So what kind of diversity is Kaine talking about in the first chapter of Genesis? And what does God's Word tell us in Genesis 2:24?
That's where marriage is first defined: "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh."
That's how quickly the subject comes up. It took 1,415 words (fewer in Hebrew). I suspect God thought it was an important subject.
And having read all the way through the book a few times, I can say that was not the last time God addressed the subject.
The sanctity of a marriage between one man and one woman was affirmed by Jesus in Matthew 19:5, actually citing Genesis 2: "And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder."
Advocates of same-sex marriage don't only seek to break up a marriage, they actually seek to put asunder the entire institution of marriage.
If Tim Kaine is not a 100 percent reprobate Catholic, he must believe that Jesus is God's only begotten Son and, in fact, one with the Father. That means Jesus is God. Perhaps Kaine just attends church as some kind of social club. I don't know.
But, real Christians believe Jesus was there at Creation with the Father. In fact, the Gospel of John tells us that Jesus Himself was the Creator and that "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." (John 1:3)
Was God wrong? Was Jesus wrong? Did they make a mistake?
I don't think so. Apparently, Tim Kaine does.
Mind you, just the practice of homosexuality is an "abomination," according to Leviticus 18:22 and Leviticus 23:13. Romans 1:26-27 show this view did not change after Jesus' death and resurrection. But what Kaine is glorifying is something far worse than just the practice of an "abomination" and a "vile practice." He's on the wrong side of a war against marriage – the first human institution created by God in the Garden of Eden.
And, somehow, Tim Kaine cites the Bible as his inspiration for seeing the light on same-sex marriage.
I can easily understand why non-believers buy into such ideas, but the ultimate display of blasphemy is when someone claiming to be a follower of God twists and abuses His word so completely as to mock the Creator and Jesus who was tortured and died an excruciating death on the cross to atone for the sins of the whole world.
Listen, if you want to reject God, that's your business. If you love sin more than God, then sin is your god. I get that. It's the reason most people don't even want to think about God too deeply. Thinking about Him might mean they would have to consider giving up the sin that gives them so much pleasure.
I feel sorry for those people, because this life is short for those who reject God or who believe in a god they design in their own image.
Seemingly, Tim Kaine fits into the latter category – having remade a god in his own image.
Tim Kaine claims to be a follower of God and the Bible.
Of course, he also claims to believe in the Constitution.
But if this guy is going to distort, pervert, mangle and misrepresent the Bible like this, do you think there's a chance in hell he's going to faithfully execute the supreme law of the land after placing his hand on that same Bible and swearing to uphold the Constitution?
Give me a break.
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