Clinton B. LeSueur: Our District, Our State and Our Nation needs more morality

Magnolia Report ^ | June 2, 2003 | Clinton B. LeSueur

[JohnnyZ]

As the 2003 election season kicks off I hope we the citizenry will factor in candidates moral stance on issue before we cast our vote.

As I continue to travel the 2nd District and the State, I am motivated yet humbled by the number of people, both black and white who are asking me to run for U.S. Congress again in 2004.

However, I am disheartened and saddened by some of our leaders, both political and religious, weak stance on moral issues. Many have expressed privately their concerns with the growing homosexual movement in our district, our state and our nation. Well, I want to be one of the first to publicly say "homosexuality is Biblically, Spiritually and Morally wrong" and should have no leadership role in our religious and political institutions.

Two weeks ago as I sat and talked with a pastor in Greenville, he intimated that he was told, it's nothing to walk through the halls of schools and see two girls kissing, in today's society. Last week while in Jackson a secretary intimated to me that three boys were caught in a bathroom stall in a middle school having sex and the principle prevented it from getting to the media.

In the same week, while sitting in the barber's chair, a young lady in college expressed to her dad that she takes extreme precaution when changing clothes for a basketball game because only two of them on the team are heterosexual. Yet, in Congress there are representatives who have voted against allowing prayer in school. And voted in favor of allowing homosexual partners the right to be included on each other health insurance and retirement benefits, which are rights reserved for married couples.

Levticus18:22 says, "You shall not lie with a male as with a women. It is an abomination." I Corinthians 6:9-10, says, "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicator, nor idolater, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God."

The Bible clearly categories homosexuality with adulterers, therefore, if we consider homosexuality to be morally correct then so is an adulterer. If our society thinks that homosexuals should have the right to marry then an adulterer should have the right to more than one family, to be pastors and ministers etc.

I am writing this article because it's time that we who consider ourselves to be upright moral men and women speak out against wrongful deed. A wise man once said, "The best way to fight evil is to take up arms against wrong doing." And should Jesus Christ continue to lead me to run for Congress in 2004 morality will be as integral to my campaign as education and jobs. According to Genesis, God created Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve.

Congress is currently debating whether businesses have to hire transvestites.

[JohnnyZ]

Classic LeSueur, not big on grammar but strong on substance and principles.

[JohnnyZ]

Incumbent Bennie Thompson defeated Clinton LeSueur 54-44 in 2002; LeSueur announced soon afterward that he would try again in 2004. He is one of the few prominent black Republicans in Mississippi. (Black) Tchula mayor Yvonne Brown is also mentioned as a possible candidate.

[RAT Patrol]

Who is this guy? I think he's fantastic!

[WKB]

ping

[JohnnyZ]

He's usually described as a jounalist/reporter by profession. I don't know TOO much about him, but if he runs again hopefully he'll have Haley & Co. behind him full force; he didn't get too much money in 2002.

[WKB]

Who is this guy? I think he's fantastic!

He is the Conseravtive Democrat who would have defeated Liberal Bennie Thompson if the Republicans had not spent all their money on the Golden Boy Chip Pickering.

[GiveEmDubya]

54-44? That's closer than I had originally thought, and I'm assuming that prior to this, Thompson's margins were pretty sizable.

With the right tools we can take the seat over. 44% is a pretty good starting point--no wonder people want him to run again.

[WKB]

he didn't get too much money in 2002

It all went to Chip Pickering who would have won anyway.

[WKB]

ping

[JohnnyZ]

He is the Conseravtive Democrat who would have defeated Liberal Bennie Thompson if the Republicans had not spent all their money on the Golden Boy Chip Pickering.

He is the conservative Republican

[WKB]

. He is one of the few prominent black Republicans in Mississippi.

He is a DINO.

[WKB]

He is the conservative Republican

I voted for him in the Democrat primary.

[WKB]

He is the conservative Republican

I voted for him in the Democrat primary.

[WKB]

http://www.election.cbsnews.com/campaign2002/county/u_s__house_ms2.shtml

[RAT Patrol]

I'll start voting democrat if they start sounding like this guy.

[JohnnyZ]

CLINTON LESUEUR is a Republican. He defeated Charlotte Reeves in the Republican primary in 2002. Bennie Thompson is a Democrat.

[JohnnyZ]

http://www.sos.state.ms.us/elections/EleResults/RepPrimary2002.pdf

GOP Primary results for 2002.

[RAT Patrol]

Okay, you're right.

[JohnnyZ]

Okay, you're right.

It's a burden, to be sure.