Rewrite the Bible to allow gay marriage, CNN host Piers Morgan declares
Piers Morgan says that both the Bible and the U.S. Constitution are heavily flawed
Being controversial generates lots of worthwhile discussion on the part of the audience. CNN host Piers Morgan has declared that the Bible needs to be rewritten to allow gay marriage. Morgan has also said that both the Bible and the U.S. Constitution are heavily flawed, and need to be rewritten. These comments have indeed proved to be controversial, and a petition to have him deported back to the United Kingdom has since garnered 84,000 signatures. Other petitions since then have asked that he not be allowed to return to the U.K.
A petition is calling on Home Secretary Theresa May to stop CNN presented Piers Morgan from returning to Britain. 'We got rid of him once and why should we have to suffer again,' the Web site says. The Americans wanted him so they should put up with him.'
Print"Both the Bible and the Constitution were well intentioned but they are basically, inherently flawed. Hence, the need to amend it," Morgan said while interviewing Pastor Rick Warren on his CNN show.
"Not a chance," Warren said. "What I believe is flawed is human opinion, because it constantly changes."
"But you and I know the Bible is, in many places, a flawed document," Morgan continued. "My point to you about gay rights for example - it's time for an amendment to the Bible. You should compile a new Bible."
Saying that he believes that the Bible reveals the truth, and the truth is never outdated Morgan replied to Warren "We're going to agree to disagree on that."
It was just the longest line of Morgan's outspoken opinions after he offended thousands of Americans with his anti-gun remarks. Morgan has demanded tighter U.S. gun laws following the Sandy Hook massacre.
Morgan certainly doesn't seem to respect those who disagree with him. He declared a gun advocated interviewee as an "unbelievably stupid man."
In response, a man in Texas launched a petition on the White House e-petition Web site earlier this month, demanding Morgan be deported immediately for "exploiting his position as a national network television host to stage attacks against the rights of American citizens."
The petition has already garnered more than 84,000 signatures, far exceeding the 25,000 signature threshold required to get a White House response.
Undeterred, Morgan replied "If I do get deported from America for wanting fewer gun murders, are there any other countries that will have me?"
There a few in the United Kingdom who don't want Morgan back. Hundreds have signed the "Keep Piers Morgan in the USA" petition after it was proposed by Janusz Jasinski, a Birmingham-based Web site designer.
A third petition is calling on Home Secretary Theresa May to stop him from returning to Britain.
"We got rid of him once and why should we have to suffer again," the Web site says. The Americans wanted him so they should put up with him."
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Why is this article even posted on this site?.. This person obviously speaks for no one other than himself and has no agenda other than satisfying his own ego.
Mr.Morgan does not know the Bible and he does not know the teachings of the Holy Catholic Church for otherwise he would have never said what he has said and suggested. He is totally ignorant of the Word of God. We should just ignore his rantings as they are nothing more than rantings of an ignorant mind. He might be good at judging singing voices but the Bible?
Piers is a typical case of someone who thinks that just because he is famous he is also wise and can spread his 'wisdom' around. Obviously, he does not believe in afterlife.
How sad we humans are...choosing to be ignorant of God's laws to suit our own selfish wants and desires.
When we see ourselves one day as God sees us, we will surely weep with sorrow and remorse.
I'm with your comments "Clinton" - very well said.
When he says to rewrite Bible, he knows that being a divine book, it cant be rewritten. Therefore, gay marriage, on account of never being allowed by Bible, should not be permitted. In a nice and a careful way he is against it.
Unbelievable:
- that a petition can be launched -- and taken seriously -- to have a person deported from a country merely for expressing his views...
- that a television personality can decide that he knows better than God, than the evidence and nature of Creation itself, and better than the God-fearing authors of the U.S. Constitution what human life, family and society should look like...
- that so many politicians, academics, and media pundits still haven't learned that Truth is not based on opinion, taste, trends, lobby groups, or polls, but rather on the One who not only creates and sustains us, but also reveals man to himself -- the good and the bad, the beauty and the ugliness... perhaps they haven't suffered enough yet from the misery, the poverty, and the wretchedness of their "choices" to see that Satan is behind their anti-human/anti-Christ agendas. Any of us can be swept up in Satan's deceptions if we don't stay close to the Lord.
May the love of God, in Christ, break through darkened minds and hardened hearts! Joy and true freedom are abundantly available through Jesus!
If we can have the gay bible,why not the newest of the new,revised sub-standard Peirs Morgan bible or the Peirs Morgan constitution rewrite. Than all will be and politically correct and all morals can be rewritten to suit whatever any one would want to ever think they would like to do without worrying about their conscience ever bothering them about it. Gay marriage,abortion,euthanasia all of it why not. Just lie in literature,rewrite it all to suit yourself. The sermon on the mountain will read very differently in the politically correct version of the Peirs Morgan bible. Feel good version of the bible and constitution? Why Not? Hitler did it so that killing the Jews was a politically correct thing and students of that time could read the textbooks they were studying and it was all rewritten as the thing to do,current for the time.actuated as all politically reinvented to be morally acceptable even advisable,all protected by and rewritten as the new set of laws for the land of new and revised freedoms.
Is he a citizen of the US? Just wondering as he calls for the rewriting of a constitution which safeguards his freedom to speak this nonsense in public. What an arrogant piece of work! Show me your credentials Show me your degree in constitutional law, theology, religious studies, early Christian History? Anything? Anything to back you up!? Not worth one piece of the paper that our Constitution was written on!
I would not doubt that some crazy liberal judge will in the future declare the Bible to be a "hate document" and thus outlaw it, or demand its revision, under so-called anti-hate laws.
The main problem is judges. They make a crazy decision and then the media brainwashes people into believing that it's the correct decision. Unfortunately, we have very, very few elected officials who will stand up to these judges. I mostly blame Republicans, who have lost their way and are wandering in the wilderness.
Another problem is that oridinary, socially conservative Americans have been taken by surprise by what is essentially a revolutionary Left which knows no bounds of decency or craziness. They are fanatics.
Ordinary Americans are simply bewildered and defenseless when it comes to confronting these Leftists.
Re-write the Bible to allow Gay Marriage? They already have. http://queenjamesbible.com/
I have such distain for Rick Warren. He caved the first time when Obama was running for President. It gave room for those Christians that were straddling the fence, to come on over to Obama's side. He made Obama look good. He supported Obama. Warren could not see, what most of us could? And now he is surprised by these outlandish comments from.. to borrow a word...twit like Morgan? It is not about compromise. You are either a Christian or you are not.