I need to start this with a note: this is only for me, I am not saying that anyone has to vote the way that I am going to vote, I will not push my opinion on you, and so please do not push your opinion on me.
I believe that the United States needs to do something different in order to regain the respect of the world and make sure that we have a future. I believe that Barack Obama is the person who will do this.
I have heard people say that a Christian would not vote for Obama because of what he believes about gay marriage and abortion. I have also heard people say that if we as Christians want things to change and for everything to get better, that they only person that we can have as president is Obama. Another thing that I have heard people say is that Obama is the anti-christ or that his work is the devil's work. For me this is just another time where Christian's just allowed their pastor to decide what is right and wrong and who they should vote for, instead of thinking about things for themselves. I do not mean to offend anyone, but that is just my observation.
As for abortion, I believe that killing any person is wrong, but I also believe that a woman has the right to choose. It is not our job to force anyone to do something that they do not want to do, that takes away from a persons free will. Just because I am pro-life does not mean that I cannot be pro-choice. I believe that life is a gift from God, but so is free will, and so I do not believe that it is good for us to force our free will on others.
If we look at the long term and health risks of abortions, we will see that it is actually better for the woman if abortion is legalized. Many women die due to unhealthy abortion practices each year, roughly 60,000 women died in 2000 because of unsafe abortions. By making abortions more illegal and defining a human being on conception, those numbers are going to go up because women who are raped or do not feel that they want the child, will have to resort to unsafe ways to do that. Now I don't necessarily agree with all that Obama may want to do or has done regarding fetuses, but there is more than that aspect to look at.
As for homosexuality and partnerships of the same, I believe that men and women were created to be companions through life, not men and men, or vice versa. With that said it is important to understand that free will plays an important part in this issue as well as many others. I do not believe that we have to right to tell people how to live and what they should do with their life. Homosexual partnerships and marriage in some states is for those people to decide. I am not saying that I believe that homosexuality is right, and I do believe that the term marriage is used for a special union between a man and a woman, however if they want to get married we should not try and stop them because again we are imposing our free will on them.
In general, I think that the problem that our economy is facing is because of the upper-class controling everything (whether you may think so or not, does not change the fact that it is happening, but maybe that is just the Marxist inside of me talking). I think that by giving tax breaks to the middle-class and bringing our outsourced jobs back here, that our economy will stablize, and then we can focus on other issues. Of all the issues on the ballot, I believe that the economy is the biggest issue that we face, and only by working on that issue, instead of working on many issues at the same time, we can strengthen our nation as a whole.
I think that it is interesting how we as people, particularly Christians (I'm allowed to say this because I am one, and besides this is only an observation) get stuck on one or two aspects such as abortion or homosexual marraige, and we miss the bigger picture. Sure some may say that I am a relativist, and that is fine, but for me, this is how I see the world. We all have our own lenses through which we view the world and the issues that face us everyday, and the great thing about living in America is that we can do that without worrie of being draged from our houses and fed to the lions (as they are in some other countries).
If you do not agree with me and even if you do agree with me, that is fine, and we are all entitiled to our own opions of what we want the world to look like, at least our little slice of it. That is why I encourage all of you to vote, do not say that your opinion does not matter, because you do not know what the out come will be, and if everyone did not vote because they thought that they would loose, then we would not have a democracy, and America would be destroied. So please vote and get everyone to vote, no mater what they believe, if they are American, then they have the right and responsability to get off their asses and vote!
No matter the outcome I am thankful to be able to vote freely, and I pray that God will guide our decisions in how we vote, and may God bless America!!
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