An evangelical voter identified as "ilja" wrote a strong piece on the major dilemma facing Conservative Christians in the upcoming 2008 presidential election.
Out of all the GOP candidates, presently there are only a few that are "electable" and even fewer out of those who boast staunchly conservative records. And of the issues that matter most (abortion, border security, gay marriage) it's hard to find a Republican running whose position falls on the right side of the fence
On the reality of an amendment to the constitution to define traditional marriage actually happening (even if the candidate supports it):
Yet no one stops to explain just how this Amendment is going to be passed seeing as it can't even be brought up as a resolution since there is not enough support. It's not like adding an Amendment to the Constitution is done every day. It takes two-thirds of both houses of Congress to pass a resolution calling for an Amendment. Then it must be ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the States.
Either that or two-thirds of the States must vote to call for a convention where Constitutional Amendments can be proposed which would still require ratification by the legislatures of three-fourths of the States. This second option has actually never happened.
So I am suppose to use the support of this particular Marriage Amendment (which I do personally happen to like) as a litmus test for deciding which candidate I should support if I am being a "real" Christian? If I were to hold out for any Amendment it would be one to protect the lives of innocent unborn babies and even I, the queen of Naive don't have glasses that rosy.
And those with a "no compromising" strategy will end up being forced to compromise in the end:
I keep hearing Social Conservatives say that they must stick to their guns and vote for a particular candidate in the primaries even though they acknowledge their candidate is not viable but then they will say that they will vote for Rudy if he ends up winning the nomination. This does not compute in my simple mind. Why would you want to support someone who doesn't have a chance, knowing that if you do the option of having to vote for someone who is so totally anathema to your beliefs will be your ultimate decision?
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