Jim
I love and appreciate you and FRee Republiuc and I can understand the stuggle you endured to come to your final decision.
But personally I cannot vote for either candidate.
I have put my opinions on the line and spent much of my time and money for nearly 40 years fighting against abortion and other evils which are tearing our country down.
I love America. I am an immigrant and shortly after arriving in the US I enlisted in the military to support my new country. I am a veteran of the United States Air Force and I proudly wore my uniform the day I was naturalized as an American citizen. I cried most of that day with joy at the thought that I now belonged to the greatest country in the world.
I was taught as a child to be thankful for the American soldiers and sailors and marines who fought and died in the Pacific against the Japanese to halt their advance. The American presence in those islands actually stopped the Japanese from invading Australia and New Zealand.
My father often said that if it were not for the Americans, New Zealand would have been easily overrun and conquered. He liked Americans and made several friends amongst those who joined his deep sea fishing club. My father greatly influenced and encouraged my desire to immigrate to the land of our forefathers.
My family lines were some of the first to arrive here from Europe, coming here as esrly as 1623 on the ship the New Netherland to NYC from Holland, and my families investment of their lives and ideas into the founding of early America is a strong source of humble pride for me.
Their belief in God which caused them to flee from their homelands and come to the New World is a motivation that cannot be ignored. They stayed true to God through hardships and tough decisions. I can do no less.
In deciding on a candidate, I have to refer to God and what He would want me to do. Do I ignore what I know to be true about God’s word on social issues or do I stand fast regardless of what might come my way? Do I abandon what I believe about God and His opinions in order to be popular and avoid confronations or do I risk the slings and arrows of those who do not agree with my decision?
God does not call us to be one of a crowd and choose only the safe, easy paths. He warns us that we may be alone with Him in the way He wants us to live and conduct ourselves. When speaking out against abortion before it was a cool thing to do, I was admonished by “Christians” that I was an “enemy of God” and stopping those babies from returning to the God who made them and wanted them back.
Taking a stand against the slaughter of the unborn was a lonely task in those days and few Protestant Christians would join the battle, referring to the battle against the horror as “a Catholic issue” and unimportant. What a different country we would have today if more people had risked their reputations and fought against abortion in those early years.
And what a different country we would have if people had stood for God and country when they voted in the past elections. However they did not and now we have Barak Obama.
Jim, I will not be voting for Willard Mitt Romney nor Barak Hussein Obama.
I do not at this point know who I will put in the top slot of my ballot in Novemeber but I will be voting for Conservatives down the ballot.
I hope I am still welcome in your home here. I intend to decrease my participation in threads that involve political discusions, although there may be little else.
I trust in God to guide America as the people pray and appeal to Him for His mercy and Grace. I do hope there are many praying as they did in 1980 which resulting in the election of President Ronald Reagan.
God is a God of miracles and I am believing for one for our beloved country.
Tennessee Nana
When speaking out against abortion before it was a cool thing to do, I was admonished by “Christians” that I was an “enemy of God” and stopping those babies from returning to the God who made them and wanted them back.
***That’s an incredible twisting of scripture. I can see why you call them “christians” rather than christians. I shudder to think what the judgement will be against such pharisees and against a nation that engages in a holocaust of killing 50M babies.
Thanks for a brilliant post TN... I would expect nothing less : )
Been on the outside looking in before... Taken that unpopular path too... But I have never been alone, as YHWH always provides me the best sort as companions... Folks just like yourself.
There is nothing on the planet that would cause me to vote for this baby-killing, gun-grabbing liberal. And those who do, for whatever reason, will rue the day that they did... And I don't even need a prophet's cloak to predict that one.
I'm sticking with Tom Hoefling. He's the real thing and he has every bit as good a chance as Romney this year.