Posted by lynch03 on December 10, 2004, at 23:02:45
In reply to Re: To everyone who lives in the USA » lynch03, posted by MKB on December 10, 2004, at 21:46:40
> I think "sects" is an unfortunate choice of words. "Sects" are not likely to have much of an impact on an election.
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> Most conservative Christian denominations are against gay marriage and abortion, but I don't believe church members blindly obey their church leaders. I think the main factor is that people were mobilized to act on their beliefs. Christians finally realized that their votes could make a difference and that past apathy has been a factor in a perceived decline in moral values in the United States. Conservative Christians have as much right to make their voice heard as anyone else, and they chose the correct forum...the voting booth.
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> Uh, oh, here it comes. I better take cover.
Whatever you want to call them. The right wing christians as a whole have been coarsed by there religion to vote a certain way. Some church's have been advancing the idea that voting for kerry would be a sin based on one issue.
They vote because there church tells them to..if that wasn't a factor they wouldn't ordinarily care.. it's not about formulating there own opinions it's about being consistent with there faith, and apparently the evangelicals have taken marriage and abortion as there top priorities.. But it is just so hypocritical to vote for bush based on morality issues like HUMAN LIFE and if they were not blindly following there church and were not completely ignorant of politics they might see that.. and im not even going to get into the reasoning now..
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