[TheRealThing]

^Your last sentence summed it up.

I have no problem with faith proclaimations, but who gets in front of a reporter or camera and makes that statement? One of the biggest problems with Christian politicians is that they need to do more like:



The idea of that is that is many people seem to share their faith for attention. I do not pretend to know the secret heart of mankind, but at the same time, many politicians understand that just by saying they are a Christian, they will gain thousands of votes. I can make that assumption about votes because I know dozens and dozens of people that vote based on which candidate is more "Christian" than the other. I have no real problem with that because every person is entitled to their vote for any candidate and for any reason. Yet that can get dangerous in the world we live.

Tell me if I am wrong, because I do not think I am. A republican could NEVER get their parties nomination if they were not a professing Christian. They do not have to attend church or give sermons or evangelize but they have to have the label and and make that statement. Actively going to church and having a "faith that bears fruit" only helps them. A democrat would never HAVE to be a professing Christian to win their primary, maybe the general election, but not the primary. If they were an active Christian, if they evangelized, if they had "fruits of the spirit" evident in their lives, it might HURT their chances in the primary. I do not like that system. At one time (I no longer hold a party affiliation, and will NOT vote in any local primary or general election, and my only vote will be for president, if that. If anyone wants to know I will explain but it is for personal pastoral reasons) in high school I was a registered democrat but for reasons of fiscal and war policy not social issues. Whenever voting time would come around, and I would tell the Young Republicans club that I was a democrat when asked about election matters, I got responses like "BABY KILLER", "YOU HATE JESUS", "YOU SUPPORT ABORTIONS AND GAY PEOPLE GETTING MARRIED", I am 99% sure the same kind of things would happen on the other side of the fence as well because I heard Young Democrats say, "Those Jesus-loving republicans are ignorant", "Who could believe in a God that told people to do the Crusades" "They want to give money to the filthy billionaires" etc....

Why do people have to categorize others because of what is on their voter registration card? Just because you are affiliated with a party does NOT mean you hold to every single issue that they believe. The reg. card I was handed had 3 options, Dem Rep or Ind, if I remember correctly. In the county that I am from, you could not cast a real vote in the primary if you were a democrat because there were never two democrats running for the same office. There was NEVER an independent running for anything, so why register independent, (I thought then, that is what I am registered now, I think)

Sorry for the small rant-like posts, lol. Back to the question at hand.

To what I have bolded, there is no doubt about it. At the same time SOME dems would vote for the anti-christ if he said he was a democrat.

I remember the line on Gerald Ford when he was running for election against Carter. If you will remember, Carter announced he was a "born again" Christian. That prompted Ford supporters to come out with this statement "Gerald Ford is a quietly religious man who doesn't believe in wearing his religion on his sleeve". I always doubted that faith had much of a role in Ford's life but, from that day it's been the norm for candidates to declare themselves just to get the Christian vote, as Jimmy Carter won the election thanks in no small manner to the religious vote.

That doesn't mean it's not important to know what the candidates believe. For instance, I will never knowingly vote for a candidate that is Pro Choice. I believe if a voter casts his vote for a democrat (just because he/she is a democrat) in spite of the fact they are Pro Choice, that voter will bear a share of the responsibility for the deaths of the unborn, and the ramifications of any long lasting legislation that candidate helps to enact that adversely affect the lives of the unborn for as long as that legislation is in effect. The reason the dems generally don't get my support is they tend to be Pro Choice, support the gay agenda and they tend to view the constitution as a living document. They believe the basic tenets of the constitution should mutate along with the current social values of this nation and, they make and enforce, or don't enforce, laws in that light. When one considers the recent and ongoing events of the Occupy Wall Street movement it is easy to see why the notion of changing with the times is foolhardy. We have come full circle from the madness of the 60's when hippies redefined acceptable moral behavior across the spectrum of American life from free sex (like a heard of bison) to blowing up buildings ala Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground terrorists. And now we see the resurgence of the same kind of mindless actions in NY and places all across the land.

I want to make sure I'm voting for people who can be depended on to "stay the course" and govern with integrity, appoint judges of fiber and lean on the hard lessons of history. IMO letting the liberals drive the bus should only happen on short trips until they stop steering toward la-la land.