I respect your right to vote as you wish.
However is there no room in your mind for repentance?
“Lake, I’m unable by faith to vote for a pro-abortion, pro-gay agenda, pro-gay adopting, pro-government health care, pro-big government, radical liberal.”
Romney has changed his mind re: abortion and opposes federal socialized health care. Pro-big government is a subjective value, and so is radical liberal - there are ton more liberal than he on our political stage.
I am sorry to agree that he has bowed to the gay agenda. This I can’t stomach. It is his worst feature, in my opinion.
You may not believe he’s changed his mind on the other things, and that is your perogative, but it seems to me our goal is to change minds, and if someone does change their mind, they should be supported, not undermined. Ronald Reagan is a good example in re: the abortion issue.
If you were to go all the way back to the primary season leading up to the 2008 election, you’d find me NOT supporting Romney due to his pro-abortion, pro-gay agenda leanings.
After he lost, I wrote on some post way back then that Romney now had time to establish his conservative credentials. That if he toed the line as a conservative during those next 4 years that I’d give him the benefit of the doubt regarding a real change.
Within months, he was out with his pro-gay nonsense. I wrote him off as entirely disengenuous.
He is not a reliable vote for life. He has switched back and forth 4 times. He stepped away from the pro-gay agenda stuff in the 2008 primary, but as mentioned above, he was back at it within months.
So, do I call a fickle, unreliable pro-abortionist, pro-homosexualist a radical liberal, or do I give him the benefit of the doubt?
Track record and governing record led me to believe that his conversions are conversions of convenience. It is entirely rational for me to conclude that.
He would govern as a liberal is my analysis. Even floating pro-choice Condi Rice’s name as a trial baloon is evidence of that. His acceptance of gay couples 2 months ago says that. His announcement that these gay couples should be able to adopt says that.
If you had a converted pedophile in your church, who had only backslid a few times, and you were the pastor, would you allow him to work with your youth group?