Posted on 09/30/2004 1:06:11 PM PDT by crushelits
WEIRTON, W.Va. — John Edwards (search) says voters should know that religion is important to him and to presidential candidate John Kerry (search) but the issue shouldn't be used to divide people in the election.
"My faith is very important to me, and the same is true of John Kerry," the Democratic vice presidential candidate and son of a deacon said in a brief interview with The Associated Press after a campaign stop in West Virginia.
"The two of us talk about our faith — with each other," he said Wednesday. "Our faith is important to us and it's always been important to us, and people should know that."
Edwards, a Methodist, said most Americans want a good leader — a man who is a good husband and a good father — "and if they're a person of faith, that helps."
"I don't think that faith should be used to divide us," he said.
However, religion has emerged as an issue as both parties battle for West Virginia's five electoral votes.
President Bush, who has visited West Virginia nine times since April, has found staunch support among conservative Christians. At rallies across the state, dozens have cited his faith in God as the main reason for their support — more important than jobs, the economy and the war in Iraq.
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This from Edwards who wants to divide the country by income? Race? Politics? Oh, but not religion. Certainly not that.
I believe Jesus Himself took the opposite position.
Well, you see your problem, don't you. You simply are unable to recognize the secret plan JE has for our religious needs. We will be safer in their churches and not have to worry about anything.
There is the slight issue of theology, but JE has a secret plan for that too.
/sarcasm
"I don't think that faith should be used to divide us," he said."
So then why, senator, do democrats consistiently denegrate people of faith?
Bush said in his O'Reilly interview that a person cannot divorce their faith from everyday life. I agree.
Kerry and Edwards have faith in only one thing. Cash.
All those secret plans and conspiracies that Kerry has embraced have put him right in the Michael Moore camp.
Had Kerry spent more time in Vietnam, I'd be seriously thinking he was damaged emotionally from his experience. As it is, I just think he's nuts.
All true people of faith agree.
How come I find it hard to believe that Kerry and Edwards sit around talking about their faith to each other as he is claiming? That's ridiculous.
Bingo!
No he only wants to divide us into plaintiffs and defendants.
Sheep mentioned in the Biblical sense, not in the "stupid bleating animal fit to be made into sweaters and mutton" sense. Right and left retain their current political connotations.
Obviously the religious vote is working out well for the Johns.
All the people I know who actually have faith never talk about faith. They talk about Jesus Christ, or God, or what Jesus wants them to be doing.
Most Democrats seem to place their faith dividing us in the first place.
Wait I thought there WERE two Americas.
I remember a certain freshman Senator whose most notable speech addresses the "Two Americas."
There ARE two Americas, there is the America that is composed of those who strive to have a rightly informed conscience on matters moral, as well as utilitarian, who act on those conscientious beliefs. Religion is a vital component of that formation. Then there is the America composed of John Edwards, John Kerry, and the Bill Clinton crown (Kerry and Edwards do not rate their own crowd) who do not believe in any unchanging truth, but use the language of morality to serve whatever they want it to serve, usually their own selfishness or ambition.
You beat me to it!
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