I loved Kerry's remark in his 2004 acceptance speech when he said ""I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side. "
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Mary Jo Sminkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I didn't even know that God was registered to vote. > > LOL, reminds me of reading God's Politics by Jim Wallace (Why the Right Gets > it Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It). You may disagree with some of his > politics, but I loved the central message of the book...that "God belongs to > no single political party and true faith transcends political > categorization." My family has a hard time understanding how I can be > Christian...and liberal. How I can be anti-abortion...but still pro-choice. > While I find it hard to understand how someone can be pro-life and yet > pro-death penalty. Or pro-war. As he says, the religious right uses a few > hot-button issues to control evangelical voters into thinking that there is > only one "right" way to vote if you are Christian. But God is *not* a > Republican. ;-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:276082 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
