American politics is a dirty business that incorporates slander, lying, embellishment, false promises, and obscene amounts of money. It drains way too much time and money from God’s people who cling to the flawed supposition that the ballot box changes anything and that somehow America has God’s favor.

LOL…thanks for the comments.

RE: the title of the blog. I can see why you like it….YOU coined the phrase, after all!

Stay classy, St. Louis.

Kudos. Love the blog, love the title of the blog, love this particular post. Being myself recently committed to stopping my own indifferent attitude toward my own pro-life committments, I have had many discussions, and with many evangelicals, some of which definately float the idea that the pro-life movement has, for 35 years done next to nothing good toward abortion reduction; in fact, its worse, the pro-lifers are somehow the cause of the problems by their fixation on overturning RvW and as a result of their strident public outcry. Bosh! The inference is entirely unwarranted. The stuff I hear is baffing and often utterly unsubstantiated assertion. Thanks for the post, Rich.

Kyrie Eleison,

Alex

True, those issues were and are important for Christians, especially young ones…but I point to Stonestreet’s last comment: the fact that Christians are elevating care for the environment to the same level or above the slaughtering of innocents is beyond me.

Some of us think: “Ok, the Repubs are with us on abortion, but the Dems are with us on care for the environment, poverty, and the Iraq war. That’s three to one, I’m going with the Dems.”

Such reasoning makes two iffy assumptions: 1) each issue is morally equivalent (they aren’t) and 2) the Dems solution to those other things are the best solutions to the problem. I don’t know about the environment issue, but I doubt that the Dem solution to poverty–increasing the size of government programs–is the best solution (same goes for the Iraq war).