Dear Barak Obama,

I did NOT stand and vote with you in record numbers 2 years ago. And if I had an absentee ballot, I'd be voting tomorrow to vote against your party, just like I voted against you 2 years ago.

Lord, help us

"The pornography industry has a big stake in defending itself against legal challenges and restrictive laws, and it has been stunningly successful in doing so. One of the leading legal defenders of pornography has been David Ogden, a lawyer who can only be described as a First Amendment extremist, who has even argued against laws against child pornography.

President Barack Obama has nominated David Ogden as Deputy Attorney General of the United States. This nomination is both ominous and dangerous. Given David Ogden's high visibility in defense of pornography, this nomination sends a clear and unmistakable message. The pornography business will have a friend in high office in the Department of Justice."

~albert mohler

A fine line?

I have trouble deciding what the government should do concerning highly moral issues. The big one right now (w/ Prop 8 being such a headliner) is gay marriage/unions/whatever.

I know where I stand on it. I stand where the Bible stands on it. Homosexuality is a sin.

And as a Christian, I can't condone homosexuality in any form, let alone making it an establishment.

But as an American, there's part of me that wonders about the separation of church and state. Should our religious values really be getting tied up in our political decisions?

Can you make political decisions using a values system that isn't religiously derived?

On one end, I'm horribly opposed to the government sanctioning gay marriage, because it's a sin.

And on the other end, I'm more or less indifferent: because is that the role of the government to say who can marry whom?

Obama

But we do have to recognize the leaps and bounds our country has grown by that we could elect an African American president.

You have to admit, that's pretty cool.

Sorry, baby

Your next president doesn't think you're a human being yet.

Dems and Reps

Republicans are apparently a really crappy thing from an economic standpoint. We're bad for unemployment rates, tax rates, economic trends and all sorts of other stuff.

Democrats on the flip side: decrease the unemployment rate, raise taxes for those who can afford to pay them, and lower them for those who can't, and just generally are better for the economy. Oh yeh. They're better at balancing the budget too.

http://www.stefanhayden.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/obama_mccain_taxcut.gif (McCain vs. Obama tax proposals)

It bothers me that McCain isn't increasing taxes on those who can actually afford it. That he's not making the wealthier shoulder more of the burden. (To whom much is given, much is expected. - Luke 12:48)

But at least he doesn't want to kill babies.

Political parties

I've decided to switch my party registration. Not that it matters for the upcoming election, but I'm doing it anyway. I've come to realize that it's possible to be a conservative with several liberal tendencies, and absolutely impossible to be a liberal with a lot of conservative ideals.