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Take a look at this video -- and read Rev. David Miller's post below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6BLKV7L8OU
American Prayer
I was very moved by this video. I cannot support a candidate in my role as
a clergyperson, but, as many
other members of clergy have done, I can do so as an individual.
As a progressive Christian, I long for the actualization of many of the
planks in the Democratic platform, but I
know better than to equate any political agenda with God's commonwealth.
Many people I know and love
support McCain; I understand their reasons, but I can't agree with them.
I have in times past, supported third-party candidates, particularly those
of the Green Party, as their
priorities are much closer to my own than those of the Democratic Party.
Although I knew they had no
chance to win, I thought that, by supporting them, pressure could be
exerted on the Democratic Party to
move to the left. This election cycle, however, I have become active in
progressive movements within the
Democratic Party.
Although Obama doesn't match up with my priorities as well as someone like
Cynthia McKinney, the Green
Party candidate, I feel that supporting the Democratic Party's progressive
movements means supporting
Obama for president. Even the Democratic Socialists of America, as leftist
an organization one can find in
our country, has come to the same conclusion. In its Declaration on the
2008 Presidential
Election<http://www.dsausa.org/pdf/Statement_on_the_2008_Presidential_Election.pdf>,
the DSA says:
We have little hope that over the next three months the media will focus on
the policy differences between Senators John McCain and Barack Obama. That
is tragic, because there are major differences between the commitments of
both candidates and their respective parties that need to be aired and
understood, even if these differences are not as great as the democratic
Left might like. Obama promises to restore to American workers the right to
organize; to renegotiate international trade agreements so they enforce and
do not retard labor, environmental, and human rights; to re-regulate the
financial sector and end speculative excess; to bring troops home from Iraq
and invest the saved funds in domestic needs; and to move toward universal
health care. That's a program worth electing a president on– or fighting for
in the event the president and his party renege.
I know that there is a wide spectrum of political views among people of
faith and among people of goodwill; I honor those differences and respect
those who hold views different from my own. However, the current social
positions of the Democratic Party, even when not fully lived up to, are much
closer to my own progressive theological stance and to the social positions
of my denomination, The United Methodist Church, than are those of the
Republican Party.
Generally untrustworthy to fulfill their promises, politicians and political
parties waver in the wind like a shaking reed in comparison to God's
unshakable plumbline of justice. In all honesty, so do I. I waver, I shake,
I tremble. I know that I could be wrong; I fear that he is just another
politician, tricking us with rhetoric, but I am inspired and moved by his
rhetoric. I think Obama is our best choice.
Thanks, David! <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/DivineSalve?a=wyci2W>
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