Crabtownboy said:
Perhaps it is determining which person will do the least damage.
Abortion is somewhat of a red herring. If abortion is declared illegal abortions will not stop, but more young women will die from back room abortions. There is evil on all sides of this issue. I am not in favor of abortions, but I am not so simple minded as to believe that just because a person running for office is anti-abortion that means that person will do a good job. Love it or hate it, Roe v Wade, is the most reviewed court ruling in American history. In other words, it has more precedent than any ruling in our history. If the justices that Bush appointed were telling the truth when they said how important precedent is, then they will not rule against Roe v. Wade. Politicians know this and know they can use it to win votes, but that nothing will be done. Rather sad isn't it? But politicians are politicians and they will go where they think the votes are.
Example: In 1978, as a congressional candidate, Bush supported a Woman's Right to Choose... "Bush said he...favors leaving up to a woman and her doctor the abortion question."
Then, when votes are needed Bush flops .... FLOP: BUSH OPPOSES A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE "I am pro-life."
[Governor Bush, 10/3/00]
This and many other reasons is why I take with a grain of salt anything a politician says.
The greatest men of our nation flip flopped over the Slavery issue for nigh 90 years. Then came the blood bath. More Americans died in that one war than in all the wars America has ever fought. Our politicians have been flip flopping over abortion nigh 35 years now and 10 times the blood of innocents has been shed than in all of the 300 plus years of slavery.
This nation paid bitterly for it's sad use of humanity while preaching the message of "All men are created equal", or the phrase that clearly defines or independence, "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." When life is denied to a nation's most innocent, God has always intervened. The United States of America has been judged in the past and America will be judged again for this insidious cultural evil. Human life is being denied it's most cherished God given right of life, liberty and the chance to pursue it's own destiny. My prayer is that God will wake us up before the blood bath comes.
Stop voting your pocket books and see to the needs of the innocent.
The mother that sees a murderous doctor for the death of her child in a "backroom alley" is not innocent, it's blood is on her and the doctor's hand not mine. The mother that goes to a government backed clinic gathers the culpability of the whole nation into her shame. The blood is now on my hands. Look at your's. If you payed taxes for the last 30 years the blood is also on your's. :tear:
May God have mercy on us all.
Daniel was an innocent youth taken to Babylon when God's judgment came to his nation. This was his prayer.
Daniel 9:4-19
4And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
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We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
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Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
7O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.
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O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
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To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;
10Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
11Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
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And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.
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As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.
14Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.
15And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
16O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
17Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.
18O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
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O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
Though innocent of the evil of his nation, he was taken and made a eunuch to serve the king of Babylon. We might think that we are innocent of our nation's evil but we will suffer it's same fate.
I suppose it is "different" if you have a need to justify your support of an abortion candidate.