Christian vote
In tomorrow's Dominion Post will be an article on the Christian vote. Whatever that is. Perhaps it is Christians who vote. Perhaps it is people who vote for Christian parties.
Lets face it. Christians - as a group - do not want to vote for Christian parties any more than most dope smokers want to vote for the Aotearoa Legalize Cannabis Party, no matter what Christian Heritage
leader Ewan McQueen thinks. Some people - including Christians - actually think that economic, health, education and tax policies are a bit more important than pro-life issues, repealing the prostitution and civil union laws and introducing a Status of the Unborn Child Act so that interests of the unborn can be represented in court.
ACT says vote ACT because you’re are a Christian. Christian Heritage seems to say "vote Christian Heritage because you are a Christian because you are a Christian you should be voting for Christians - and the best Christians to vote for are the ones in Christian Parties."
I`d rather vote for a politician. Wouldn`t you?
5 comments:
Hear, hear Dave. As I stated elsewhere;
A vote is not a confession of faith. And in fact National is more likely to actually make a difference, if people vote on POLICY rather than image.
A vote is an expression of confidence in a party's ability to govern, and National's list is manifestly superior to any other.
Although I will probably vote National, I like what Stephen Franks had to say:
I see the specifically religious politicians and parties as potentially dangerous. They legitimise sectarian politics, just as the Maori party legitimises overt racism. Tactically they siphon Christian votes into ineffectiveness. The long-term problem may be more serious, if they siphon politically active Christians into their own political ghetto where they can fulminate without substantially influencing the policies of the major parties.
How is society's moral condition any less important than its health, education, and economic condition.
In fact, it largely follows that a healthy social morality will positively influence health, education, the economy and all the other areas in which all recent legislation seems to be reactionary, rather than proactive.
It's good Dan, well called.
Christian Parties purporting moral standards are a political enigma.
It was the Christian 'temperance' movement that enabled universal sufferage to achieve its end game of prohibition, yet it was the very same 'now vote enabled' constituency who voted that prohibition was unchristian (failed all efficacy).
It is the morality based parties who support the USA led war on drugs.. yet again we now find that the pragamatic established churches are 'reform minded'.
The societal implications is the 'game is up' - prohibition is now seen as unchristian. (cf. Church Council of Greater Seattle, Unitarian Church etc. )
Only the radicalised political theosophy as witnessed by struggle of the Brethern, Destiny and other family values minority stakeholders behind United Future (polling <2%) to influence outcomes suggests such blanket prohibitions are increasingly in collapse.
Like the 1930's church focused and organised movement to destroy alcohol laws with a dangerous anti-family context, the world is waking up to the USA lead impositional 'last grasp' at moral straws.
Its only a matter time.
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Blair Anderson
Electorate Candidate, ILAM
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