Posted on 02/04/2008 12:38:24 PM PST by elizabetty
The Reverend Rob Schenck (pronounced SHANK), in his capacity as a private citizen, today released this statement regarding tomorrow's primary votes:
"I have spent the last 33 years as an active evangelical Christian. I am an ordained evangelical minister. I graduated from an evangelical Bible college and an evangelical seminary. I serve on the board of America's oldest association of evangelical church leaders, and I head one of the most active evangelical ministries in Washington, DC.
"I have thought long and hard about the upcoming elections. I have prayed earnestly about them, and I have met many of the candidates and their top campaign people and I have studied their platforms and policy proposals.
"After careful and prayerful consideration, I have concluded that an evangelical vote for Mike Huckabee is a vote for John McCain, and a vote for John McCain will be a disaster for this country
~snip~ "Evangelicals must choose wisely from among candidates other than Mike Huckabee and John McCain as they vote tomorrow, February 5."
(Excerpt) Read more at christiannewswire.com ...
See, this is my problem with a lot of the anti-Romney people.
I can understand if they don’t fully trust him. I don’t trust him 100%. I fully admit there is a chance he’s simply lying to get votes.
But I also know that there is a chance he’s telling the truth. And given the alternatives I’m taking a chance on him.
These anti-Romney people claims to *know* that he is lying. Which is an extreme display of arrogance because they are claiming to know as a fact things they can’t possibly know. They aren’t even people who know and dealt with him in real life in which case their opinion might have some validity. They watch a man from a thousand miles away and suddenly they can can speak with 100% certainty what is in his heart. Can you say God complex?
Such arrogance and close-mindedness is a very ugly thing, and some of them have been downright repulsive. It’s not their opposition to Romney that bothers me, it’s the way they’ve gone about doing it, and honestly as a former Thompson supporter who was a reluctant Romney supporter, the behavior of the anti-Romney people have really gone a long way into pushing me into a much more enthusiastic Romney supporter.
It’s hard to understand how any Christian could consider voting for Huckabee. Leaving aside his liberal record as governor, his ethics are certainly enough to disqualify him from consideration.
The Arkansas Ethics Commission investigated 14 complaints against Huckabee and found him guilty on five of those. Huckabee’s response to a question about these violations was: “In all of these complaints and attacks, not one has resulted in it being found that I’ve done something illegal.”
That’s an interesting values system for a Christian. It wasn’t illegal for Bill Clinton to have sex in the Oval office. It was unethical. But under Huckabee’s value system it was all right because it wasn’t illegal.
It’s very strange that self described Christians would vote for a man like that.
I agree with you. The behavior of the anti-Romney crowd is so hateful and ugly that it’s a real turn-off.
Mitt’s life has been one of loyalty, integrity, honor and hard-earned success.
McCain and Huckabee have personal skeletons in their closet.
It just doesn’t make sense. Vote for Romney!
More than likely The Huck is drawing votes away from McCain. If you like Romney there’s no way you’d vote for The Huck.
This is politics ~ and if you can't tolerate it I strongly encourage you to GO SOMEWHERE ELSE 'cause politics is going to continue to take place right here, and no way any of us who are true Conservatives are going to let someone like you get away with equating "behavior" to "speech" ~ what are you, another one of those McCainiacs who support McCain/Feingold, or what?!
One wonders if Candidates Huckabee or Romney were ever beaten and held in solitary confinement for singing hymns?
Good advice.
“Vote smart. Vote against Romney.”
AMEN!
I have to seriously question the wisdom of any professed “evangelical Christian” that would vote to put a mormn Cultist in office. If he doesn’t recognize mormonism, and Romney by assocication, has no place in the Oval Office, then he needs to find another profession.
I’d rather have a secularist but religiously neutral person like McCain in office, than a devout pseudo-Christian cultist like Romney. Besides, I’m voting for Huckabee, not for McCain. I want Huckabee on the ticket, even if only VP to McCain.
mormonism [snip] has no place in the Oval Office
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I admire the bravery of a freeper who holds explictly anti-Constitutional beliefs.
The last paragraph of Article 6 and that whole religious test as a qualification of holding public office means nothing to you, eh?
Don’t know your feelings about the 2nd amendment, but would you be so quick to toss that into the dustbin, or would you scream that it is unconstitutional? The Constitution is not, or should not be, a cafeteria plan.
Dr. James Dobson has just endorsed Romney today via the Laura Ingraham Show.
He understands that we are voting for POTUS, not a church leader.
He denounced the Huck for his McCain shilling and denounced McCain too.
Something is wrong with these Huck voters. They are the cultists.
“The last paragraph of Article 6 and that whole religious test as a qualification of holding public office means nothing to you, eh?”
I have answered this before. The intention of a constitutional prohibition of a “Religious” test is the same reason for the 1rst Ammendment establisement clause. The intention was their was NOT to be a national church (like the Church of England) nor a requirement to belong to such a church.
I do not advocate legislating that mormons cannot hold high office. That is all the constitution prohibits....legislation that would not allow a mormon (or any other group) to run for political office based upon their religious beliefs.
Since I am NOT advocating legislation, but simply a matter of voter’s choice...there is NO violation of the letter or even spirit of the constitution. If I, and others like me, want to have a personnally or publically held conviction that certain persons by their beliefs should not be in office, that is my (our) rights as citizens and in no way violates the constitution.
Now should I or others ever attempt to legislate that view, then you have a complaint. Plus, this would clearly be ruled unconstitutional. However, it is assinine to think this part of the constitution applies to individuals. It is merely limiting the power of the federal government to establish a state church.
Regarding the 2nd Ammendment....I believe it is a guarantee of individual rights of citizens to be militarily armed. (bear arms is the operative word).
BTW - I stick with my view that no serious mormon has any business being POTUS. I would say the same about a Muslim. I would say the same thing about a Scientologist.
I am certain that there are a GREAT many folks here on FR that would say that a devout (and practices what he preaches) Southern Baptist minister should never be president. So, we all have our tests.
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