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Hey Peter,
This post
is in response to your post, it was long so I thought I’d make it my own post:
I've been struggling with the question of whether or not
one's "religion" should effect my vote. It's complicated though. I
know the statement that Grudem made that you quoted isn't the whole thought,
here's my attempt to not take that statement out of context.
“If evangelical Christians won't support any
non-evangelical, it functions as a religious test for office that the
constitution says should not happen.” - Wayne Grudem
You would have had a
hard time convincing the vast majority of the founding fathers that the views
of the president over the afterlife (and for that matter this life) did not
matter. With how they carried the first continental congress and how the
government spent taxes early on after the ratified constitution they viewed
"religion" as important.
With hours of prayer in the continental congress, its first
act to appoint a chaplain, and then the early years of federal tax money going
to church plant.
My point however, is that you want a person of character. It
just so happens that someone who is truly walking with the Lord tends to have
good character which is why I particularly think religion matters. People will
act according to what they believe to be right. Romney for example has been
throwing ads bashing Huckabee and McCain, the other two top competitors, by
giving facts out of context. Half truths being the same as deception, I would
not want that man in office, if he does that before he’s even elected what’s he
going to be telling us when he’s in there?
I was actually thinking well of Romney before I heard him
throwing around half truth’s on ads as well as verbally. What was sad is that
he was still trying to throw them around in the republican forum taking ‘facts’
completely out of context. I was not impressed. In fact I was the opposite of
impressed.
That and he’s Mormon. If he isn’t going to be looking for
truth in his own life what makes him qualified to find out what is true in
intelligence reports or hearsay from officials.
So I guess my point is that it is not just the fact that he’s
Mormon that matters so much as the implications that being Mormon carries. Although
in all honesty Mormons tend to have pretty good character, minus the whole
believing a (/various) lie(/s). Obama I've heard seems to be walking. But once character is established then I vote for the one who makes the most sense. I don't know if Obama has character, what I do know is that his policies don't make sense. Not just his policies but that of the whole democratic party. You can be compassionate without forcing people to give you money so you can re-distribute it. That may be the side of me that's lived with a politically libertarian roommate for 3 1/2 years. But I have to say that makes a lot of sense to me. The government doesn't know how to spend money, so why am I going to give them more of it? Two cents (or more like $5.23)
My picks as of right now: I like McCain and Huckabee.
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