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you said, "Anyone who has already demonstrated leadership failures and failed to keep recent promises is already suspect in my book. Someone who has failed to count the costs properly is a failed leader." To which I respond, any antilife 'leader' who may otherwise have good qualities should be disqualified. I have nothing against Arnold. He may be a great father and husband. (IMHO)He is not fit to lead because he believes that abortion is okay in much the same way that a proslavery candidate should have been disqualified were I to have lived in that time. I wish you well in your business, but honestly think that this should not take precedence over the life issue. I am not defending McClintock. I don't know anything about him.

As for Peter, Paul and others inspired by the Holy Spirit, I agree heartily. My point is that you should choose based on your best knowledge. God can make someone who does not look like a good leader what he wants. I am thinking (though I could be wrong) that regardless of whether HE chooses to convert Arnold, or even Gray Davis into a prolife politician, your responsiblility in your decision is not to choose the best leader but the one most faithful to God's plan for life.

Disclaimer:This is all my opinion and is not divinely inspired (that I know of) and is meant for your prayerful consideration only.
God Bless

I do not want to throw a monkey wrench in the works in terms of Christians for pro-life, but I am pro-life out of choice and not because the Scriptures so state that I should be.

The case for pro-life is strong in the Word of God, but it does not seem "absolute". In the Old Testament someone who strikes a pregnant women causing her to lose the child is punished not by death but must "pay" what the father demands. This has been a difficult passage for me in terms of the "value" of the unborn child compared to a born child.

However, I choose to value the life of the unborn because he/she has been brought into this world by our Lord.

So since this is not a doctrinal issue with me like the Virgin Birth and so on, I do not weight this issue as high as you do. In other words, the gay marriage issue is higher on my scale because it is absolutely prohibited in the Word of God and is punishable by death.