[Corin Stormhands]

My comments are not meant to hurt you, as harsh as they might seem.

Well, with all due respect, you and the other "true Christian conservatives" do have a sort of stand on the street corner to pray approach about things.

I'm almost 50. I grew up in the holiness movement and fundamentalism. I came into politics a strong proponent of the religious right agenda.

It's just that, as I've gotten older and spent more time in my own study of the Word, I've realized God is so much bigger than the box so many wish to put Him in.

[Delphinium]

I'm almost 50. I grew up in the holiness movement and fundamentalism. I came into politics a strong proponent of the religious right agenda.

That is probably your problem, too much religion.

you and the other "true Christian conservatives" do have a sort of stand on the street corner to pray approach about things.

What makes you think any of us do that? OH, you must be talking about freeping? I've done that.

Well I am 52, grew up in a jack-Mormon family. My dad hated religious phonies for good reason. Started drinking at 11, smoking pot at 13. Marched against the vietnam war at 14, and 15, which gave me a real life experience with socialists, perverted, and immoral lifestyles etc. I saw clearly that that lifestyle leads to bondage , not freedom. Since then I have grown to understand more fully how true that is, one of the main reasons I fight it so hard.

The Lord miraculously saved my life when I was a young woman, and I don't need to go into the whole sorted story. I learned to follow the right way by making mistakes going the wrong way.

It's just that, as I've gotten older and spent more time in my own study of the Word, I've realized God is so much bigger than the box so many wish to put Him in.

You are so right. God is a very big God, and there is no searching His understanding. His ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts. But His thoughts and Ways are written in the Bible, that is how we know them. THe Bible is our road map to abundant life. You either believe it, or you don't.

Religion is often an enemy to God. "The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life."