How would Jesus vote?

I am not real thrilled about watching political conventions and hearing political lies over the next several weeks, but ran across this great article and wanted to share with you.

As any godly person would tell you, the TRUE Christian would accept and embrace the values of party “x” and vote accordingly. At least that is what I grew up being told. But I’m not even sure that makes sense. You see, for every Republican who cries “abortion is murder” there is a Democrat shouting “protect our environment!!” For every Republican outcry against the ACLU there is an audible shout from a Democrat for help for the homeless. Republicans may drive over the poor in big tanks marked military spending, but Democrats want to pay people to be lazy. Bumper stickers that read “Jesus was a liberal” and “America needs a Faith lift!” seem only to underscore the unspoken rivalry between our two dominant parties in the hunt for per-haps the largest voting block in America: the Jesus-lovers. A wise man once told me, that if you’re a Christian, you can’t be comfortable with any party, but you choose what’s important to you, and you make a choice. Well what is important? How do I decide what my deciding factor is? Maybe, just maybe, the question we should be asking ourselves, and our fellow Jesus-lovers is not How Would Jesus Vote, but whom did Jesus love? Continue Reading