Re: [TruthTalk] From the 10/04 "Real Simple" magazine

[Knpraise]

In a message dated 9/25/2004 3:29:28 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Personally, I believe is it unconscionable for any follower of Christ in America to NOT vote for President Bushâs re-election. The only alternative, not a third party candidate, but Kerry.

This actually kind of bothers me a little.   I will not vote for Kerry for a number of reasons.  But my vote  --  ok, it is for Bush ---  is a secular consideration.   I certainly do not believe that the Republican Party is God's party.   I actually do not consider Kerry to be "evil."   But what are his core values?    No one really knows.   And with 40 days remaining to election,  he has no intentions of letting us know what those values are.  So, he does not get my vote.   Abortion?   No biggie  --   yes, I said "no biggie."   If the churched would  get off its collective butt,  abortions would be a tenth of what they are today.   We, the churched, want an end to abortion on demand but we do not want to care for the 1.3 million newborns as a result.   Its the old "be thou warmed and filled" mentality. 

John (this is why I am not a pastor any more) Smithson