I have been thinking about the upcoming election and reading several blog posts written by Christians who have already declared that they will not vote for any of the possible, presidential candidates.
The reasons are varied, but many say that it is because they cannot vote for a candidate whose moral values and ethics do not line up with theirs.
I can certainly appreciate that sentiment. After prayerful consideration, I can certainly respect their decision to do what they think is best.
I understand their dilemma. My husband and son put me on the spot a few weeks ago. They both asked me, if you HAD to choose between Hillary or
Obama, which one would you pick? I said, "neither...I'd rather die first!"
They both laughed at me. But I stated that I could not vote for either one because they are pro-death for unborn babies. That is the one issue that I cannot, with good conscience, ever compromise on. Therefore, that eliminates both of them from my personal voting consideration.
Yesterday, I went around asking for signatures to place a CA Constitution amendment on the ballot in November to finally keep the definition of marriage as a union of one man and one woman. This is necessary because the CA Supreme Court is due to make a decision any day now on whether to overturn Prop. 22 (which was voted on by 63% of the state in 2000 to keep marriage as "one man and one woman"in the state of CA).
In fact, if you are interested,
here is a link to a live blogger commentary.Both Hillary and
especially Obama, are pro-gay activists and pro- same-sex marriage advocates.
Ironically, the first two people I ran into yesterday both stated that they would have liked to have signed the marriage petition, but both are not registered to vote! I was really surprised. The first young woman (whom I have gotten to know over just the past 2 months) said that it was "against her religion." I asked, "what religion is that?" She said, "Jehovah's Witnesses." I said, "Oh." She did go on to say that she agrees with the one woman, one man definition for marriage.
I have to admit, either I didn't previously know that Jehovah's Witnesses do not vote or I just plain forgot that fact about them. What a shame. Never taking the opportunity to exercise your voice in the voting process here in America? Oppressed people all around the world would LOVE THAT FREEDOM AND OPPORTUNITY!
The next person (whom I have been casually acquainted with for about 2 years) also told me that she is not registered to vote. I know that she isn't a
JW; she is either Catholic or Christian because we have had conversations about Jesus in the past. But she was busy working at the time and I didn't have the chance to ask her why she isn't registered to vote.
If I had to choose regarding the importance between the above two issues, I would say that being pro-life is the more important one. Even though abortion is legal today, 30 years of science, knowledge, and now the 3-D imaging of the baby in the womb is changing minds towards the pro-life side. Even if same-sex marriage becomes legal (God forbid!) I will still fight for biblical morality, values and ethics regarding that issue, too.
But, there is one issue that tops even those two issues today. This election year, THE most important issue when choosing a president is
who will do the best job in fighting for the safety of our country against global terrorism? Out of the three top contenders left, John McCain is the only one that I have confidence in who will do just that!
This morning, we all heard the bad news about a
bomb being planted and blown up near the military center in New York's Times Square. That bomb was planted to deliberately target the military recruiting center where it went off.
Excerpt:
Authorities in New York City are looking for the culprit who set off the rudimentary explosive device in Times Square early Thursday, with one witness describing a hooded man on a bicycle wearing a backpack and acting suspiciously just before the blast at the recruiting station.
New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said an ammunition box was found at the scene.
"This was not a particularly sophisticated device," he said during the Thursday press conference.
Kelly said police were talking to a witness who was in the area shortly before the 3:45 a.m. explosion. The witness described a male bicyclist wearing a hood, dark clothing and a backpack and acting strangely — but said didn't see the man's face, according to Kelly.
It is not yet known who is responsible, but since the device was described as "unsophisticated," we might surmise that the culprit could have been an anti-military/anti-war extremist.
This means that possibly...an act of home grown terrorism is to blame.
How nice.... /sarcasm
Lunatics, like those who protest in Berkeley and San Fransicko against our military [ Warning: Some disturbing, graphic content in the photos at that link *] just don't seem to comprehend the threat of
Islamo-fascism and the reality of the danger they present around the world. To mock, threaten, defame, degrade, insult and reject our military; and those who want to volunteer in our armed services; and then have the gall to protest against these military recruiting centers by planting a bomb is just totally despicable!!
It's like a person finding out that he/she has cancer; yet another person who "doesn't believe in cancer" protests and fights against those who would administer the necessary treatment to fight and cure such a cancer.
Radical Islam is a cancer being spread throughout the world. Our brave military men and women are doing a MAGNIFICENT JOB in fighting against this brutal enemy!!
When I hear the Democrats and liberal
RINOS gripe about the war in Iraq, and Nancy
Pelosi & Company going on vacation so that the House doesn't have to vote on renewing the terrorism surveillance bill (which has dramatically helped to keep our nation safe since 9/11/01) it just makes me ill!!!
If either Hillary or
Obama gets into the office of the presidency, our nation will once again be severely depleted of the protections put forth by the Bush Administration (just like they were depleted during the Bill Clinton years - eliminated protections which definitely helped lead to the 9/11 attack!!). If either one of them get into office, our military will most likely be ordered to pack up and come home from Iraq - whether victory is achieved or not - and that new democracy being built over there will be left vulnerable to takeover by Al
Qaeda and Iran. The carnage that would occur would be awful!! Just like the millions who were slaughtered after the Vietnam War.
The people who are following after
Obama and his empty-suited rhetoric of "hope" and "change" must not have any knowledge of history and/or the dire consequences of the Marxist philosophy that he would place upon America.
Yesterday afternoon, I was driving by a Unitarian
Universalist church. The marque message this week read,
"hope dies last."Isn't that an odd statement? I thought it was. It reminded me of a sign that was being carried by a man dressed in Muslim garb at a San
Fransicko anti-war protest (I plan to locate actual photo and post it):
"Thank you S.F. liberals...you die last."
HT:
Fox NewsZombietime* There are also some really good counter-protest photos of American patriots at that rally who stood up against the Code Pinko lunatics.
Zombietime quotes:
"The confrontations and disrespect continued as the afternoon wore on. Predictably, the children had only the feeblest grasp on any of the issues, and essentially no knowedge of history prior to approximately 2003, so trying to have a serious discussion with any of them was an exercise in futility. Someone must have taught them that confidence, self-esteem and volume were an acceptable substitute for logic."
YouTuber "vindogrks" took a revealing video of Code Pink protesting at the Marine Corps office shortly before the demonstration, in which they state their honest opinions, including that the Marines are "war criminals" -- in fact, that the U.S. military is "full of war criminals" -- that World War II was "wrong" and that we shouldn't have reacted to the bombing of Pearl Harbor because "What the the hell were we doing in Hawaii anyway?", that the War on Terror is a "lie" and "Al Qaeda is not a threat," that the U.S. military intentionally targets children and babies, and "What's wrong with communism?", and more.
Truly jaw-dropping -- and it shows that the carefully crafted slogans on the Code Pink banners are just made to assuage middle America -- underneath the emphasis on "peace" is a very deep hatred of America.
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Update @ 12:35 p.m. PT
Concerning the CA Supreme Court upcoming decision on marriage, please see:
Jim Campbell: Reflections After Oral Argument in the California Marriage Cases
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