Thanks for the list and link VeniVidiVici. Thank you too SwinneySwitch, for pointing this post out to me.
On California’s ballot right now, are at least two propositions that stand to directly impact union members.
Propositions #30 & #38 both address raising taxes to be spent specifically on schools. And granted, that’s only if you agree with the premise, which I don’t.
Guess what happens if we raise $5 billion through taxes. Even if they keep their word and spend that on schools, guess what happens to $5 billion in the budget. It can be diverted elsewhere with zero impact on schools. These guys are slicker than snot on a door knob.
Okay, what if someone walks into a polling station with a shirt that says, “Vote SEIU!” Isn’t that electioneering? I would certainly see it that way with initiatives on the ballot directly impacting union employees.
What if another Homosexual Marriage proposition were on the ballet? Wouldn’t “Vote the Bible” be seen as an advocacy to vote with Christ’s teachings, and against the ballot measure allowing Homosexual Marriage on an equal footing with Heterosexual Marriage?
I just don’t see the need to express opinions in the polling place. I want those places to be (in effect) demilitarized zones.
Let’s say you’re 82 years old, and you want to vote. You’re a Christian and you’re trying to do your civic duty. How would you like to walk into a polling station past 50 people outside wearing “Vote Homosexual” shirts? Then you walk inside and everyone is wearing the same shirt, and some of them look rather menacing? So do the folks outside.
Should this older person have to walk a gauntlet to vote?
What if one of the people outside recognizes her as a Christian, and tips others off?
That’s just not the atmosphere I want to foster at our polling stations.
“Vote the Bible” is a great slogan. I just don’t think it’s something we need to wear into the polling station. And if we’re going to do that, then the Left can game the system and will.
The problem is that WE always acquiesce. Character, principle, dumbassness, whatever. Call it what you will but the Left and its minions run roughshod over us and will continue to do so until we play the game by their rules.
VOTE SEIU will always be allowed.
VOTE BIBLE will never be allowed.
If we continue down this same path.