I hope everything come out well for you, I know what ever you do you give 110% I’ve always looked up to you for that!
Congrats on the little one!

Ahem. Great post, sorry for being so… late. -has just read that last comment was in 2005-

NOW I have to watch four more years worth of telly to find out how it ends…

~Liz!x

http://www.citizenlink.org/content/A000008537.cfm

We had a lot of fun doing the show!
Hopefully our CD will be out at the end of this year, make sure to check it out!
~Jordan
West Finley

Head over to Facebook, look up Sierra McConnell from Emmanuel College/Pittsburgh, PA, and read her note “I’m not voting.” Really good discussion and points brought up on both sides.

Here’s the link if you’re already logged into Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=91300031#/note.php?note_id=31190436948

I’m not sure if you have to add Sierra in order to read it, but if you do, it’s worth it.

- Jen, I’m very careful about sources and while I recognize that the blog I linked to is anti-Obama, I linked to it because it was one of the few places I could find such lengthy direct quotes. The link you included has some great information and I urge readers here to check it out.

- Daniel, thanks for your comments as well. I don’t have a problem including AGE-APPROPRIATE sex education at the elementary, and even the primary level. I have friends who teach first and second graders and their students come in singing lyrics to sexually overt songs word-for-word. My four-year-old nephew knows what a girlfriend is. You’re kidding yourself if you think that young kids aren’t already being educated about sex. I support Obama’s initiatives to take a little more responsibility for that education and start talking about the consequences of sexual behavior.

- Finally, here is a post by Jim Wallis from his blog “God’s Politics”: http://www.sojo.net/blog/godspolitics/?p=3009. Very relevant to our discussion here and very hopeful in light of what both candidates said at the final presidential debate.

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Again, my primary motivation in writing the original post here was to question how I – as a Christian – should be voting. Or whether I should be concerned with politics at all. I consider myself pro-life in the broadest sense of that term, which ultimately led me to support Barack Obama in the first place. Our pastor recently said it’s difficult to vote as a Christian because we have one party who seeks to value and protect life within the womb, and another party who seeks to value and protect life outside of it. I guess I’m just feeling particularly stuck between those two sides.

This is an interesting discussion. Might as well point out that I am voting McCain in November and am staying as far away from Obama as possible. I am conservative in belief, not republican, although I do not like all of McCain’s ideas and stances, where he needs to be strong he is, taxes, spending, and the war. On other things, like campaign finance reform and his immigration policies that he spawned with Kennedy, he has been appalling. That is just to set where I am coming from.

I am pro human life, and that life has no right to be ended. Life begins at conception, that is where God begins the work of His hands in shaping that life. On this whole thing of Obama and his life/choice policies and votes, I am at the other end of his standard.

Like Michelle stated earlier ‘”And if we’re placing a burden on the doctor that says you have to keep alive even a previable child as long as possible and give them as much medical attention as — as is necessary to try to keep that child alive, then we’re probably crossing the line in terms of unconstitutionality.”’

He said this statement, we cannot take the fact that he said it away. People can try to explain it away, and maybe it that were it then it could be, but he has done a lot more in the pro-choice, anti-life spectrum. The main thing I look at is SB99, here is the bill (http://is.gd/481E). The items that have a line through are the parts to be omitted from final draft and the underlined words are to be added. Now, when in a debate or in an ad McCain accused Obama of wanting to teach Kindergarteners (sp) about sex-education, and of course Obama said it was nonsense, he would not admit to something like that would he? If you look for the sponsors of this bill, you will see Obama as the chairperson who saw over the Health and Human Services of the Illinois Senate and the legislation they made (http://is.gd/482Q).

So lets look at the bill.

Each class or course in comprehensive sex
14 education offered in any of grades K 6 through 12 shall
15 include instruction on the prevention of sexually transmitted
16 infections, including the prevention, transmission and spread
17 of HIV AIDS.

If you look at the bill, the 6 is marked through and K is added. Why in he heck would you teach kinderkids about the prevention of STDs and HIV??

This is just one section of many.

I write all this just for people to read the facts and what is already out there. The campaign trail is full of BS, on both sides, so it is up to us to fact check them and keep them clean. I just do not understand how a man running for president can say these things, and not just about abortion. Obama also said he does not want his kids “punished with a baby”, in what flawed world is a baby a punishment? So, this is why i am in such disagreement with Obama, and his other socialistic desires.

Btw, McCain was asked when a baby became a human life at the Saddleback forum and he said immediatley “at conception” while Obama said he could not answer because it was “above my pay-grade”

Have an awesome day!