I have decided…

I really, really didn’t want to do this, but I feel compelled for reasons beyond me to write a political post. So, here-goes…

This election season has been especially disappointing for almost everyone. I haven’t talked to a single person who is pleased with their party’s candidate. The big hang up seems to be character flaws. They are obviously both influential, accomplished leaders, but without character a leader can never be truly great.

As Max Lucado and many others have pointed out, our King, the God of the universe will still reign supreme on Nov 9th. So we all just need to chill out.

As far as politics is concerned, I’m right in the middle of the conservative right, I would say that even most of my friends are divided on voting for Trump because of, well, many good reasons… his foul language, childish banter, un-presidential attitudes, un-American views, sketchy business ethics and tax records, vulgar comments toward women, stereo-typing an generalizations toward minorities, should I go on?

So how am I to vote?

1. Abstain?

2. Third Party?

3. Write-in?

4. Vote Trump and pray that circumstances arise so that Pence becomes President?

Well, I’ve decided not to vote for a candidate.

But I will be voting based on an issue. One issue.

Life.

Do you have to decide based on the ‘lesser of two evils?’ Or can you pick an issue you are most passionate about and vote for that. It may be labeled with someone’s last name on the ballot, but your vote goes to your issue. I don’t think a vote for a candidate should have to mean that you endorse their every decision. But *at the present moment* Trump is Pro-Life and might seek legislation to turn the tide of our country’s Pro-Choice bent.

I truly believe that 100 years from now (but hopefully only 50), the carnage of legal abortion will be over. Our society will look back with disgust on our generation’s views and practice of abortion. They will feel the same regret and remorse about abortion as our generation has over our country’s scars of the past era of endorsing and practicing slavery, eugenics and the like.  We think about what happened during those times, we see the pictures and watch the movies and get sick to our stomach over the acceptance of such atrocities. Well I think our great-grandchildren will experience even more of a sickness inside, they will see, in retrospect, the horrors over the millions of lives lost due to human selfishness.

So, for me, any candidate that holds a Pro-Choice view only keeps perpetuating our society’s disrespect for Life and holds us in the Dark Ages on that issue. Conversely, any candidate with a Pro-Life stance, that has a chance of winning the ticket, will be in the position to make progress in the direction of Life. I think that is a win.

There is no other political issue that I can think of that has such an ability to echo into Eternity.

I’m voting for Life.

For further encouragement, read this article.

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