"C.A. Starkey" wrote:
> My interests are human rights like
> making sure Roe V. Wade doesn't get overturned, rights for Gays,
> gun laws, etc.
> Since you are a Rev. we probably have different views on the abortion issue.
> But that is why voting is important.
>
> Carol
Carol, The NRA has said if Bush is elected, they can work out of the Oval
Office. Reason alone to vote for Gore.
But this comment confuses me: "Since you are a Rev. we probably have different
views on the abortion issue." Are you anti-choice?
It is precisely because I am a clergy of 23 years experience and now a bishop in
my church body that I celebrate 23 years of membership in the Michigan
Religious Coalition for Abolrtion Rights, Planned Parenthood, the Clergy chapter
of Planned Parenthood, and other religious pro-choice groups. I have been to
any number of pro-choice rallies and actions. As the bumer sticker says, "Pro
Choice/Pro Child" and also "I am prochoice and I vote."
That vote must be for Gore this year or Roe v Wade may be lost. Every year on
22 January I have a letter in the local paper in support of choice and within
days there are letters calling me all kinds of unBiblical names, but I feel
strongly, as a Christian, that choice is the option e must support so that each
woman can freely make her own choice based on her own circumstances, beliefs,
health, other needs that are real to her, and her relationship to God, if any.
Then again, I belong to the National Organization of Women, Handgun Control, the
ACLU, SCLC, People for the American Way, the IWW, Sierra Club, and every other
group that I think says where clergy need to be.
Never make assumptions about clergy. We are always on the front lines and we
are always pictured as wimps and 18th-century bound moralistic prigs.
(the Rev) Vince
