If you need a decent Indiana voter guide, here is some info:
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2006 Indiana General Election Voter Guide is NOW AVAILABLE
Vote Your Values on November 7!
The November 7, 2006 General Election is just days away and I know you and your family want to be prepared and informed on where the candidates stand on moral and social issues. Click Here for Indiana information from American Family Association’s 2006 ValuesVoters.com voter information website.
The liberals and mainstream media are well aware of what is at stake in our nation and have been hard at work to discourage values voters in hopes that we will sit out the 2006 elections. For the sake of our children and grandchildren, we must not make that mistake.
Forward this email or print a copy of these Voter Guides and give them to your pastor for distribution in your church. Pastors, churches and non-profit organizations can distribute voter guides to inform the public about the positions and voting records of candidates. Click Here for a detailed guide from the AFA Center for Law and Policy as to what churches may and may not do in the context of political action.
Early Voting has already begun in most states and Absentee Ballots are available in many states. Click Here to access vital voter registration and absentee ballot forms along with voting dates, places, guides and deadlines for Indiana.
The nation’s values voters were the single largest factor in the 2004 elections — and now is no time to let up. Your vote can and will make a difference! Voting is a privilege that millions of people in other parts of the world can only dream about. For a clear presentation on the importance of this election, please read this commentary by David Barton from the October AFA Journal, “For Moral Issues to Prevail, Values Voters Must Storm the Polls in November.”
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Is this how George Bush got reelected, too?
I would encourage everyone to look at publications that reflect actual political action and not “values.” If 650,000 dead people represents good “values,” and I *know* that Bush was a part of this guide two years ago, then I really wouldn’t believe in what it says.
The separation of church and state is good for both the church and the state, and with the weird way our country is set up, no politician will ever truly admit if they are or are not believers in anything. We are, for better or worse, a Christian nation… therefore our politicians will say they are Christians no matter what.
Don’t believe these people — elect people who walk the walk (who actually DO the things they say they want done) and not those who appeal to you just because they say they believe in “values” issues.
Jason,
It certainly is how GW got reelected, in my opinion. Whether he has actually honored the commitments is another thing.
The voter’s guide is accurate for our community here in Fort Wayne. Fr example, incumbant Mark Souder has voted consistently with his responses (check the Washington Post voting record.
I agree that voting guides and voting records don’t always coincide. Unfortunately voting records usually only work for incumbents, especially on national issues.
In the end your response is dead-on. Christian in name versus Christian in practice are genuinely two different things. Our country was established on fundamental principles, largely drawn from God’s Law (which Christian’s believe all people know inherently.) While religious belief is not a qualification, upholding the law of the land is. This law is largely (or was originally) a reflection of God’s law.
Times are changing and people are denying what they know to be truth. The nature of politics in this country is largely bureucratic and not about serving people. Some candidates I believe truly are interested in helping, protecting, and serving others. Unfortunately those are few.
The voter’s guides can help you learn where critical consideration of both candidates is needed and on what issues. They don’t provide the answer of themselves.