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I appreciate you sharing your thoughts! As a fellow Californian I have struggled with who to cast my vote for. In a perfect world McClintock would have my vote, but it isn't and unfortunately we have to deal with choices that go along with it. It is easy for those not smack dab in the middle of this to throw their insults around, but when California's citizens are the ones who will deal with the outcome it is a scary situation.
A lot of the people commenting on these threads have been big on Arnolds stand on abortion. And everytime I see that this is one of the reasons they would never vote for him I wonder just what this person has done to stop abortion. God is just as concerned about how we conduct our daily life for Him, not just this one event. I would be curious if those fighting against Arnold because of his pro-choice stance have fought just as hard to end abortion.
It isn't fun what is going on in California, but each person has to vote their conscience and nobody else has a right to judge that vote.

shelly,
I reply to your post because you directly address an issue in mine, namely Schwarzenegger's views on abortion as a disqualifier for his holding office. As I stated, I would not vote for any antilife candidate when a prolife candidate existed. The antilife viewpoint is not just one event or issue. It is as disqualifying of a candidate as proslavery or progenocide. God is very concerned with how we conduct our daily life. I have protested and prayed in front of abortion clinics. I have given money to problem pregnancy centers and homes for unwed mothers. This I say in response to whether people like me have fought hard to end abortion. Voting for a prolife candidate (there must be more than one on a ballot of 135) is fighting to end abortion.

Your last sentence reveals a common error about Christian judgement. You say that everyone of us has to vote their conscience and this is true. But they also have a duty to fully inform their conscience and to pray for guidance. It is absolutely my duty (not right) to admonish a fellow Christian who I feel is not choosing wisely. Hopefully I can do that in a charitable way.
God Bless

PS BibChr where is the promised response to several pointed questions posed by me and others?

In a perfect world McClintock would have my vote, but it isn't and unfortunately we have to deal with choices that go along with it. . . . God is just as concerned about how we conduct our daily life for Him, not just this one event. . . . It isn't fun what is going on in California, but each person has to vote their conscience and nobody else has a right to judge that vote.

This sounds like the transcript of a commercial for the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. At least, your slogans mirror theirs, and those of Planned Parenthood as well. Is California really that far gone?

It isn't fun what is going on in California, but each person has to vote their conscience and nobody else has a right to judge that vote.

Do you really mean that? So none of us have the right to complain, or reproach someone for voting for Bill Clinton despite all that he has done to degrade our government and culture?