How the Gay-Marriage Mob Slimed a Boxing Champ

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Boxing champion Manny Pacquiao is guilty — of being true to his Catholic faith. The gay-marriage mob is guilty — of the very ugly bigotry it claims to abhor. And left-wing media outlets are guilty — of stoking false narratives that shamelessly demonize religion in the name of compassion.

The attempted crucifixion of Pacquiao this week was fueled by an online army of cultural shakedown artists, generously funded by billionaire George Soros and other so-called progressive philanthropists.

On Tuesday, a freelance writer for the Examiner.com published an interview with Pacquiao conducted at his Los Angeles residence. Journalist Granville Ampong asked the pugilist his views on gay marriage in light of President Obama's flip-flop-flip on the issue. "God's words first," Pacquiao said. "Obey God's law first before considering the laws of man."

After suggesting that Obama should consult the Bible as his "manual for life," Pacquiao added in earnest: "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."

The interview then included a scriptural reference to Leviticus 20:13, which states: "If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads."

Publications including USA Today, LA Weekly and Village Voice all ran outraged pieces on Pacquiao's "homophobic" calls for violence. But it was the interviewer, not Pacquiao, who made the citation. Ampong demanded apologies on behalf of Pacquiao. Feckless professional journalists blamed Ampong for their own biased reading and then grudgingly "clarified" the truth in buried updates.

"I didn't say that, that's a lie," Pacquiao told anyone who would listen. "I didn't know that quote from Leviticus because I haven't read the Book of Leviticus yet." Too late. The politically correct bloodhounds were in full hunting mode.