Jeremy E. Sarber

I’m voting republican because I am stuck-up and don’t care at all about anyone else but myself. As long as I and my loved ones have what I need, it does not matter if other people do not.

I’m voting republican because I value banning gay marriage more than saving our economy.

I’m voting republican because I value unborn life very highly, but value born life very little. I do not want to make sure the born have equal educational opportunities, adequate medical care, food, freedom from being sent to die for an unnecessary war and other trivial things.

I’m voting republican because my church told me to.

I’m voting republican because I do not value caring for one another and showing compassion and understanding. Even though the Bible says that a nation is judged by how it treats its poor, I am unconcerned about the poor. It’s their own faults they’re where they are at, and if they want empathy, understanding, and compassion, they’re looking in the wrong place.

I’m voting republican because I am ok with our country spending way more than it has. As long as my taxes stay low, it is ok if our economy falls apart.

I’m voting republican because I want Christians to have lots of freedoms, but other religions or unreligious people to have very few freedoms. I don’t want to have respect for other opinions, perspectives, or cultures.

I’m voting republican because I hope we can start another war that will waste tons of resources and large numbers of American soldiers’ lives.

I’m voting republican because I prefer to throw caution to the wind and just assume that global warming isn’t caused by humans and continue carelessly, gluttonously, and wastefully. Even though I believe God created the earth, I don’t believe God expects me to have any respect for it. God made the earth for me to gluttonously consume it, and I expect that He’ll save us just in the nick of time. I realize if I am wrong, irreversible catastrophic consequences will occur, but I’m willing to take that chance.

I’m voting republican because though I am a Christian, I am against the description in the book of Acts about how those in the church functioned in their finances and businesses. Even though I believe the Bible is God’s Word, I still think I have some better ideas than it does. I only accept the parts of the Bible I like, and then, pretend the other parts are not there…this system works pretty well.

I’m voting republican because I believe our forefathers were nearly perfect and their constitution is never needed to be altered even though new issues arise throughout history that they could not have foreseen.

I’m voting republican because I want to have unnecessary wars that lead the rest of the world hate us even more so that we’re even more likely to be attacked by terrorists because we’re so hated.

I’m voting republican because I think people do not deserve freedom. I believe the government should tell them exactly how to live their lives (of course, the stipulation I’m adding here is that I only agree with this if the government is telling to live the way I do). I believe that my views of morality should be a part of legislation, and there should be laws banning behaviors that don’t hurt anyone simply because I want people to live the way I do.

I am voting republican because I see no difference between homosexual sex and having sex with a horse. I also make special efforts to avoid any scientific discoveries about sexual orientation.

I’m voting republican because I don’t want to waste any of our time or intelligence finding alternative fuel and energy sources so that the rising gas would end up not mattering because we wouldn’t need it. I’d rather just keep using gas until people can no longer go to work because they can’t afford to drive there. If they can’t afford to drive to work, it’s their own fault for not being rich.

I don’t see what is so hypocritical and sad about what Leslie wrote. It was clearly just a response to that silly republican email foreward that mocked democrats. What was so bad about that? Is it because republicans can dish it out but not take it?

You were stating the democratic viewpoint in an incorrect manner just to make them sound silly. So, I did this same thing to help you see how pointless it is to approach this subject in this manner.

At this point, with the two current candidates, we are all screwed either way.

My only two comments to the stuff that Lesile wrote is this…

You argue that we vote this way because our church tells us to, because we take the parts of the bible that we want to use only. Here’s the thing, just as you wrote, “though I am a Christian, I am against the description in the book of Acts about how those in the church functioned in their finances and businesses. Even though I believe the Bible is God’s Word, I still think I have some better ideas than it does.” the key here is the way the church functioned. I do believe that we should be compassionate and care for the poor, but I believe it is the job of the local community and the church. Social legislation has no place in government policies that includes social security, welfare, WIC, etc. That is not part of the job of the government. Likewise, I don’t think legislating morality works or should be issues addressed by government (etc. gay marriage).

Also, you seem to have no problem with abortion, which is the murder of a child. Life begins at conception. I hear my childs heartbeat with my own ears at 7 weeks. I saw him move and flex, and watched his little heartbeat at 8 weeks. Don’t act like they aren’t life that already exists. The difference between them and those on death row. Is that those on death row have had multiple chances to do right and have murdered, raped, and caused nothing but trouble. They then under our Constitution have been given more than adaquete time to appell any decision to insure that innocents are not put to death. Comparing a child who cannot escape death, to a convict that kills is hardly a sane or level comparison.

The problem with Democrats is that they seem to think that social issues should be legislated, while issues of upholding law and providing punishments that deter crime are not to be legislated. They think that by bankrupting this country through social legislation, they are helping those who either cannot or willnot support themselves, when in the long run they are crippling everyone. They rob from those who make something of themselves while failing to teach those who have not how to make something of themselves. It’s the idea of giving a man a fish, instead of teaching him how to fish.

I’m voting Democratic because Republicans Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II ran up the federal debt to $9.64 trillion which my children and grandchildren must pay back. I’m voting Democratic because I believe that when you want a war, you increase taxes rather than borrow from the Chinese to pay for it. I’m voting Democratic because only Democrats have proven to be fiscally responsible.

I’m voting Democratic because I believe in public schools and in that early associations with those who are different are beneficial to children and for our future.

I’m voting Democratic because I greatly value the U.S. Constitution and the balance of powers it provides. I do not believe in the “Imperial Presidency” nor the politicizing of the Supreme Court.

I’m voting Democratic because I believe that main stream journalists attempt to be objective and eventually get it right. I believe that liars must discredit those who tell the truth for their lies to be believed.

I’m voting Democratic because I believe in science. Those who want us to believe the illogical must discredit science and it’s quest for truth.

I’m voting Democratic because I abhor dirty tricks by candidates for public office, whether Richard Nixon, or Karl Rove and the Swiftboat Veterans for Bush and McCain. I’m voting Democratic because I view the acceptance of stereotypical lying to be detrimental to democracy and consequently truly un-American.

I’m voting Democratic because I just believe in telling the truth and I’m voting Democratic because the Bible says, “… the truth will make us free.”

I’d rather have a guy who lies about his personal conduct in the white house than one that lies and gets us into a war where we were unwanted and unappreciated. At least Clinton’s lies didn’t cost this country a trillion dollars mand made us look like fools to the rest of the world.

1. To whoever said I do not mind about abortion, you obviously did not read my post in which I stated my stance on abortion. Don’t bother accusing me or telling me what I should believe when I already told you, but you didn’t bother to read it.

2. To whoever said because I am liberal, I must be anti-gun, you also make no sense. I don’t just decide “Well, whatever the liberal view is on this, that’s what I’ll accept.”

3. Seriously, who freaking cares if he told the truth about having sex with some woman? I care about the policies a president makes that affect me and every other American. What he does in his personal life is his business, and he should have never even been questioned on it in the first place. And I seriously can’t believe you are accusing Clinton of being the biggest liar, after all we have seen from George W. Bush.

4. Did I ever say that people shouldn’t work? Do democrats say people shouldn’t have to work? What is this “I think people should work for their bread” statement? I don’t hear any democrats saying that people should be allowed to sit around doing nothing. You know, under the republican system, the people who get screwed out of needed help are the ones who are working.

5. I’ve seen and experienced how the church helps out people in need…bottom line: the vast majority of them don’t. I was a minister for several years and worked very hard in ministry while suffering from MS. When things got bad enough that I couldn’t continue in ministry, I got a kick in the rear out the door. Want to know how much the church helped me after losing my insurance since I couldn’t work at the church anymore? Exactly $0.00. And I am most certainly not an isolated case. If the government hadn’t stepped in to help me, I would literally be dead right now. If I had to rely on the church to help me in my time of need, I would literally be dead right now. And I’m not some person who just wandered in on the street. I worked hard for church people for years. If they won’t even help me, what are the odds of them helping someone else? I don’t think the government has all of the answers, but it has a lot more answers than the church does.

6. You can’t convince me of all of these morals, etc. and how you all follow the Bible completely. I have personally witnessed how Christians behave, and it is anything but moral.

7. To the person who said I might as well support the idea of legalizing drugs…I do support the idea of legalizing drugs. We spend huge amounts of money trying to enforce an unenforceable law. The whole reason so much crime (theft, murder, etc.) revolves around drugs is because it is illegal. Innocent people are robbed and innocent people die because drugs are illegal. That’s a fact. If we started spending all the money we spend trying to punish people for doing drugs or selling drugs on better education about drugs, there’d be less people being robbed because of drugs, less people being murdered because of drugs, and less people doing drugs.

Saying something should be legal does not mean that the person is saying people should do it. Saying something should be legal is a recognition and acknowledgment of the consequences of making certain things illegal.

8. To whoever seconded the idea of being more progressive meaning being able to kill infants…again, you are completely ignorant of what liberals stand for and what progressive even means.

Yes, it was quite crushing to me. Beyond no financial help, I was in the hospital for weeks, and only had 2 visits from someone in the church…people who were supposedly dear friends of mine. I spent the entire rest of the time in that hospital alone and went through it all alone. After I’d sat there when their parents or kids or themselves were in the hospital and was at their side, when my time of need came, they all left.

But, honestly, in the end, it was good for me. It helped me to see the religion I was a part of for so many years in a new light, and I spent a couple of years really thinking about what the Bible actually says and considering how most Christians actually behave/believe. I have since broken free from it all, and it is a very good feeling. And I am now in the process of building my new life, and things are getting better and better.

1. If you had that big of a problem with that church, than maybe you should go to a different one.

2. If you think that Bush was a liar, than you obviously watch to much TV and don’t do enough research on the topics at hand. The media, although they say they are true or fair or balanced or whatever else, they are paid off by leading officials within the government to release and say what they want them to say. So stop believing the stupid news channels and go research the info for yourself!

3. You are right about one thing, Democrats have never said anything about sitting down and doing nothing. In fact, they haven’t said much of anything. All you ever hear is the normal blah, blah, blah about how abortion isn’t wrong or how the war is so costly (which if you look it up, whichI know you won’t, you probably will see that if we hadn’t gone to war, the war would have come to us anyway!)

I have worked in the Pentagon for 17 years and all this stuff you hear about people and their political views is nothing but a front for their true motives. i invite anyone witha brain to look up the true facts and judge the government based on that and only that. Also, some of you need to read the Constitution to see what it ACTUALLY says.

Leslie wrote: “However, if people are going to get them anyway, I would rather it be done in a way that the mother is at least safe because I value ALL life, not just that of the unborn. Rather than trying to legislate abortions, Christians would be much more productive at reaching out to women with unplanned pregnancies so they feel they have better options than abortion. I hear many Christian republicans speak against abortion, but what have they EVER done to help a woman in such a desperate situation that she would consider abortion? Most of them have done absolutely nothing to save any of these lives that they claim are so important.”
Leslie, if you value ALL life how can you excuse abortion? You say you are not a propionate but you try to make an argument for it. AND many Christian organizations have opened up their wallets and homes to provide for the unwanted, unwed, confused mothers. The current candidate’s wife flew half way around the world and fell in love with an unwanted baby and ADOPTED her. Adoption should be the only option for unwanted children NOT MURDER.