| | Why Christians Should Not Vote for Obama
Randy Alcorn, a good friend of Donald Miller (an Obama supporter who gave a prayer at the Democratic Convention and the author of the book "Blue Like Jazz"), writes:
A year and a half ago, when I first heard about Barack Obama, I got
excited. I really wanted to support him. An evangelical Christian told
me Obama was prolife. I didn’t
care that Obama was a Democrat. I wanted a pro-life, pro-environment,
pro-racial equality president who took seriously our need to care for
the poor and defend the needy....That Barack Obama is an African-American was a real plus to me, and not
for superficial reasons. I believed it could help further the vision of
Martin Luther King in my favorite speech of the modern era, in which he
said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in
a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but
by the content of their character.” I get tears in my eyes just hearing
that speech in my head....Then the sad day came. I checked out Obama's
actual position on abortion and I was demoralized. I found that in
every single vote related to the issue he's favored abortion, its
legality and even the killing of children who survive abortion.But Obama is savvy. He wants to attract young voters, including young evangelical Christians who are sort-of-prolife.
He knows to say that he favors reducing or limiting abortions. Which is
like limiting rather than criminalizing murder and rape and kidnapping
and slavery. A candidate could say “I’m personally opposed to rape,”
while he has a 100% voting record favoring the legality of rape. And he
could say he favors limiting or reducing the number of rapes. But if he
actually supports the legality of the hideous crime of rape, discerning
people would see through his rhetoric of rape-reduction.
I recommend that you read the whole thing here.
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