On the one hand, we should be acutely aware that every candidate is imperfect. We will be voting for a president, not a pastor, and certainly not a Messiah. We must hold fully to the biblical standards of leadership when it comes to appointing church leaders.
Happy birthday to my favorite president, Abraham Lincoln. While he still held to some racist stereotypes, he managed to rise above the worldview of his era and affirm the wrongness of slavery and the rights of all people.
What Lincoln wrote below applies not only to slavery and racism, but to other human rights issues such as sexism and abortion:
You say A. is white, and B. is black. It is color, then; the lighter, having the right to enslave the darker? Take care. By this rule, you are to be slave to the first man you meet, with a ...
NBC rejected a Catholic prolife commercial from being shown during the Super Bowl. Here it is. Definitely worth watching!
(Click here if you're unable to view the video.)
Here are a couple of good articles that talk about the Obama administration and abortion:
Rejecting abortion using Obama's argument
John Piper Responds to Obama on Abortion.
And here's a great letter, written by Pastor Ron Jones, to our nation's new president:
I rejoice in the fact that an African-American has been elected, a true affirmation of our nation’s fundamental premise that all persons are created ...
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