Election years have become good vehicles to demonstrate just how open, intellectual and diverse we are here at Whatever World Assembly.
No longer pawns to the radical right wing elements of a few outspoken demagogues, we take a holistic view of governing and being governed.
The simplistic days of one-issue voting are far behind us. How can we expect someone who will lead the free world to be absolute on issues that have splintered the country for years? We say, “Peace, peace”. Let’s focus on the things we can agree on.
We all agree the air should be clean, don’t we? And isn’t it high time we fed every hungry person in the world? And because we agree that the ground is level at the Cross – we feel it should be level everywhere! Take from those who have saved and accumulated and give it to those who may have handled their opportunities with less foresight or success. Why should they be punished and impoverished?
That’s what Jesus would do, right? (Mt.25:14-30) So should the next president.
Why hand out voter guides that state the obvious? Why get mired in the controversy of abortion and same-sex marriage and whether or not it is constitutional to pray at high school sporting events?
Should a candidate be written off just because he is unable to make a decisive stand on hot topics like partial birth abortion? Of course not.
To bring up the gruesome act of pulling a full-term child from the womb (but for its head) and then plunging scissors in the back of the skull and removing the brain with suction…well enough said…Why bring such conversation into the homes of millions? How can we expect a man to state definitively where he stands on such a procedure as that?
Now you see, don’t you? There are much more respectable discussions we should be having. Or how will the world ever take us seriously?
And why be so unreasonable as to demand our next president lift up voice with conviction on the unique role marriage has within the social structure? Is it all that important?
It’s not as if social adhesion and procreation and common sense were at stake. It’s not as if all of nature would revolt or as if all moral sensibility would unravel.
Do we think simply because a candidate cannot firmly put together words to express outrage at abortion scenes with disembodied babies piled in trash bags…do we think that means he won’t take care of our babies or care about the children in Darfur or not be resolved about human abuses in China, Iran, Korea and elsewhere?
And simply because a candidate might be a bit confused as to whether marriage should exist between two people of the same sex, is that any reason to believe he won’t be able to make clear decisions about right and wrong? Simply because he might sanction the legal establishment of homosexual homes by marriage isn’t a leap to think he had no moral
compass?
Because we uh, need to focus on...uh...things that, you know, really matter…like clean rivers and –uh-…making friends with –uh- …and education, yeah our little babies need…to be smarter…and …so they can grow and...uh...succeed and raise fam….uh...well you know,...whatever.
No longer pawns to the radical right wing elements of a few outspoken demagogues, we take a holistic view of governing and being governed.
The simplistic days of one-issue voting are far behind us. How can we expect someone who will lead the free world to be absolute on issues that have splintered the country for years? We say, “Peace, peace”. Let’s focus on the things we can agree on.
We all agree the air should be clean, don’t we? And isn’t it high time we fed every hungry person in the world? And because we agree that the ground is level at the Cross – we feel it should be level everywhere! Take from those who have saved and accumulated and give it to those who may have handled their opportunities with less foresight or success. Why should they be punished and impoverished?
That’s what Jesus would do, right? (Mt.25:14-30) So should the next president.
Why hand out voter guides that state the obvious? Why get mired in the controversy of abortion and same-sex marriage and whether or not it is constitutional to pray at high school sporting events?
Should a candidate be written off just because he is unable to make a decisive stand on hot topics like partial birth abortion? Of course not.
To bring up the gruesome act of pulling a full-term child from the womb (but for its head) and then plunging scissors in the back of the skull and removing the brain with suction…well enough said…Why bring such conversation into the homes of millions? How can we expect a man to state definitively where he stands on such a procedure as that?
Now you see, don’t you? There are much more respectable discussions we should be having. Or how will the world ever take us seriously?
And why be so unreasonable as to demand our next president lift up voice with conviction on the unique role marriage has within the social structure? Is it all that important?
It’s not as if social adhesion and procreation and common sense were at stake. It’s not as if all of nature would revolt or as if all moral sensibility would unravel.
Do we think simply because a candidate cannot firmly put together words to express outrage at abortion scenes with disembodied babies piled in trash bags…do we think that means he won’t take care of our babies or care about the children in Darfur or not be resolved about human abuses in China, Iran, Korea and elsewhere?
And simply because a candidate might be a bit confused as to whether marriage should exist between two people of the same sex, is that any reason to believe he won’t be able to make clear decisions about right and wrong? Simply because he might sanction the legal establishment of homosexual homes by marriage isn’t a leap to think he had no moral
compass?Because we uh, need to focus on...uh...things that, you know, really matter…like clean rivers and –uh-…making friends with –uh- …and education, yeah our little babies need…to be smarter…and …so they can grow and...uh...succeed and raise fam….uh...well you know,...whatever.
