"You're so Liberal!!!"
"You would! You're such a democrat!"
"Wait, you're not a republican? Don't vote."
Wow... I am so tired of politics. Tired of all of it, because it's all so annoying! Ok, seriously, there is never going to be a perfect person running for president. There is never going to be someone who you completely agree with. Furthermore, just because someone is a baptist pastor doesn't mean that they are going to be a good president. They might just have bad tax policies, or a education plan that you don't agree with, or a immigration policy that's a little too harsh. You don't have to like someone or agree with just because they're a Christian and you are too. Sometimes you have to actually examine the issues and platforms on which candidates are running and see what you agree with, what you don't, and why. Sometimes, you might actually need to look at BOTH democratic and republican candidates and not just automatically vote one way. Sometimes, you would be surprised what you would find if you examined the issues at hand, and how they impact the people of this country, liberals or conservatists, rich or poor, educated or not, Christians or not, women or men, gay or straight, employee or employer; the president affects everyone.
So here we go, and if this makes me a liberal than i accept the label, go ahead and judge me. These are my convictions and whether or not you agree, i will speak up for what i believe. Abortion is not the only political issue to be considered. I think that abortion is WRONG. I think that someone should stand up for the lives of children who don't yet have a voice. We need to fight for life. Life in all forms. Abortion is not the only issue where life is at stake. There are more. Capital punishment, are some people worth life and some people not? Should we protect life in all forms or only the lives that we appreciate? We claim that and eye for an eye is justice, but didn't Christ have something to say about that? We want the New Testament grace and mercy in our lives but we control others under the Old Testament law. In the name of justice? How just can it be when I deserve to die just as much as the prisoner sitting on death row? "This might not work and I don't guarantee that it will, but I've got no choice till you tell me who Jesus would kill. An I for I will never satisfy till there's nothing left to see."
Free trade. People and children are dying in factories corporations all around the world. Dying from the horrible work conditions that they are always under, dying from trying to make us some cheaper sneakers. Really though? Really? Dying from not having enough money for food because they don't get paid enough. Justice? Yes free trade does help us buy cheaper sneakers. That's exciting. Yay. While people die because there is no equal exchange for their labor, while they die because free trade doesn't have labor standards for children working in nike factories in Indonesia, while local farmers in central and south America can no longer put food on the table to feed their hungry children because large companies put them out of business, Should someone fight for these lives? Oh, do they just not matter because they are not in America? Oh, okay, so we should fight for life, but not the criminals lives and not the foreigners lives, not the lives that people that are worse sinners than we are, and not the lives of people who don't look like us.
Pro-life??? Or pro one type of life?
"Politics or love
can make you blind or make you see
can make you a slave or make you free
but only one does it all....
Are we defending life
when we just pick and choose
lives acceptable to lose
and which ones to defend.....
love is not against the law
love is not against the law"
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