I just know I would make a great President. I also happen to be one of the sexiest men in America right now, plus we don't want the socialist democrats to be in control.  \n\nThe Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a marvelous document for self-government by the Christian people. But the minute you turn the document into the hands of non-Christian people and atheistic people they can use it to destroy the very foundation of our society. And that's what's been happening.
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Personally i think that 'Golum' from Lord of the Rings would have been a better president and even in 2008. at least he says 'precious' when addressing his personal thoughts..lol
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Republicans.  I'm laughing at the answer before me (first answer, there might be more by the time I post).  The democrats have constantly tried to make the constitution something it is not.  For example, "seperation of church and state."  Democrats actually have us all believing that this is in the constitution!  It is not!  The only thing the constitution forbids is a state church, where the President of the United States would be like the pope of the church.  In fact, if you read the all the commentary that the founding fathers left for us, Christianity was always meant to be a big part of the government.  Republicans are not trying to take rights away.  Homosexual acts used to be a crime.  Some day there will be a march for the rights of child molesters under the same arguments, "we can't help it, we were born this way...  love is never wrong, etc."  If republicans try and oppose that I suppose we will be "taking their rights away," too?  Somethings needed to change.  Slavery definately needed to be abolished.  The civil rights movements of the 60's needed to happen.  These were people that were not given equality based solely on skin color.  I would extend that to homosexuals and those that find children attractive to this point: you may not be able to control what or who you find attractive, but you CAN control your actions.  We also don't throw people in jail because they THINK about killing someone.  Homosexuality is not the same as race.  There is ACTION that takes place before it becomes wrong.  Laws can legislate action.  \n\nAs far as abortion rights, read the Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade and read the ammendment that originally allowed slavery.  The wording is so similiar it will make you sick.  If there is any question about whether or not a fetus is a human life or not, shouldn't we say no to killing it?  \n\nIt is time to stop "interpreting" the constitution to please every sick-o with a "cause," and preserve the nation that our forefathers built by preserving the constitution.  That means actually reading the constitution, reading the letters, speaches and earliest judicial decisions, and not being afraid to do what they did, and look to the Bible as a rule of law.
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For the most part, abortion is at the top of my list.  I know it might be silly to some but we have to answer to God and I feel that to protect the life of an innocent baby (and it is a baby, not just a blob of tisuue) is at the top of the list.  Of course I feel that some candidates play the "Christian card" like George Bush.  I'm not a huge fan of Bush and this war but I didn't want Kerry in there, either.  Some candidates just through in Pro-life to get the Christian vote and you have to take a look at their record.  Bottom line, I just pray about it and pray that God will have the candidate He wants in there.  Of course, if you don't believe the Bible to be the Word of God then you won't understand where I'm coming from and, most likely, disagree.
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I am a Republican. Though I believe in God, I am not overly religious. I also believe that stem cell research is a good idea and should be done.  You should not categorize everyone into a nice neat package. That is called ignorance. This is why I don't vote with the Democratic party.
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The Bible was not given to us as a basis of government.  We are supposed to apply it to our personal lives.  If more people applied the Bible to themselves (don't steal, lie, commit murder, commit adultery, etc.), the country would be better off because of fewer broken lives and fewer people in prisons.  That is how the Bible should play a bigger part in society.  I think that too many Christians get caught up in trying to turn the Bible into law rather than convincing other individuals to use the Bible's guidance.
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You already know that the phrase does not appear, therefore the provocative "I'm waiting..."  You already know that the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment states that, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;..."  \n\nI'm also sure that you are already aware of the letter written by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptists. In that letter, quoting the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, he writes: "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between Church and State."   You might also want to recall the Treaty of Tripoli, in which it is stated that "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion;..."\n\nObviously, if the founders wished to create a government in which religion would hold sway, or have a formal say in civil law or liberties, they could have easily done so.  They did not create a theocracy, but a democratic republic.  All of the above has been primarily interpreted to support separation of church and state, and the Supreme Court has upheld this "notion" time and time again.  It never fails to amaze me how some people persist in believing the founders intended this country to be based on religious (Christian) tenets.  They weren't idiots - if they wished that to be the case they could have clearly laid it out as such.  Their personal writings and letters reflect controversy of feeling over the matter, and quotes can be found to reflect both positions.  The proof in the pudding is that they chose to erect that wall, and did not choose to install a government run by religious leaders, and made sure those would be leaders had no power to do so.  Considering that the founders had widely differing religious leanings and knew the pitfalls of a government led by the "church," it probably wasn't a hard decision to reach.  The difficulty most likely lay in the language to be used.  There were religious leaders of that day who wished for nothing more than a theocracy to be created.  The founders had to reach a consensus on how to word the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to please everybody, and that included the theocratists.  They did such a good job that we are still arguing over it today.  We trust our Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution, and they have done so time and time again, in favor of the wall.  It's an integral part of our government, this wall, and if it weren't the Pat Robertsons and Fred Phelps of our nation would be dictating our laws and civil rights.  A scary thought, that.
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Thank you. Hear that fundies? We're not picking on you, we just want things to be equal. And before someone says it, our founding fathers were not Christian. They were deists. \n\nhttp://www.theology.edu/journal/volume2/ushistor.htm\nhttp://dim.com/~randl/founders.htm\n\n"It was during [John] Adam's administration that the Senate ratified the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, which states in Article XI that "the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion.'"
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Not in this time and era. I would like just one person to be for the people that was elected by the people. Great leadership is non existent in today's America. All I have left to do is pick by party, and pick the lesser of the two evils. Good question.
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George Washington said that we owe it to ourselves to elect people of like religious faith. That was the only check on our officials in public office. We have failed misserably at that.\nFew men of faith lead our government anymore.\nOne of our founding fathers said that they had given us a free country if we can keep it. However they also said that the country would be doomed if the electorate ever learned to vote money from the federal treasury into their own pockets.\nI think they have learned to do that, and are working even harder at trying to vote money out of the pockets of the rich into the pockets of the poor.
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I believe there is great danger in letting a church or group of churches to have to much influence and control in government.  Take a look at mideval european governments.  It was all about the Catholic church.  The government needed the church then, so they ended up wedding their functions.  The church at that time had incredible wealth, influence and control over people.  It was impossible to govern without the blessing of the church.  And if you were a citizen, you had no real freedom of belief.  You had to follow the churches teachings or you were run out of town or worse, killed.   \n\nTo be honest, GWB and some of his "faith based initiatives", scares me.  I have no problem with churches offering support and charity as an expression of humanity and compassion.  I am however afraid, that the government will soon become reliant on this involvement and before long we could be back in the same boat as before the U.S. broke away from England.  I don't think anyone wants that.\n\nThere was a very strong reason that our forefathers of this country in the first amendment wrote, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.."
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I vote on the issues. If the person who's most qualified happens to be Christian, then so be it. If they happen to be atheist, that's great as well.
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I see the moral issues, as they pertain to politics, as growing pains for a country with our form of government, largely populated with people who claim to be Christians.\n\nFor me, the Supreme Court started this decline with legislating morality, when the Constitution leaves this matter to the States.  \n\nEvery group will not be made happy.  Christians are wrong to believe our rights come from the Bible, although I still believe the Bible is where our forefathers got their ideas of freedom.\n\nHomosexuals are equally wrong to believe they have Constitutional protection for marriage.  This was not something the forefathers imagined or intended.  \n\nThe S. Court started down this slippery slope with decisions most of us think were good.\n\nConsensus is impossible to achieve, which is why our forefathers implemented the safeguards.  This is not a democracy, and the majority does not rule.  Sorry if that's what you were taught in school.\n\nI think the current approach, sending homosexual marriage to the States is a right decision, based on the 10th Amendment to the C.\n\nThe easy short answer is that both camps are wrong.  Christians cannot make laws just to please themselves, and individuals and other minorities cannot either.
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I think they think they are doing gods will.  As to gods will --- that's for them to decide of course.  I guess it's because they saved up all those Betty Crocker upcs and got those x-ray vision glasses or something.\n\nThey are like sheeple, only blindfolded sheeple.  And, their leaders are leading them off a large cliff.  They have been told to believe they are not blidfolded, but it is gods arms guiding them.  They need no vision for god will be their eyes in the darkness that has surrounded them.  \n\nTheir political party doesn't think they hate so much - they know it.  They know they can play off their religious beliefs. And, if enough of them don't show up ... they can always manipulate the election one way or another.  In 2000 it was hanging chads and the Supreme Court.  In 2004 it was Ohio and voting irregularities to put it mildly.  But, since our govenor, Taft, is a republican he certifed the results despite the problems.  Ohioans are generally sheeple and too few of us spoke out.  \n\nBesides, who cares --- it's only an election, right?  I mean does it really even matter?  It's only gay people...\n\nAnd, its this attitude that makes them anti-christ.  But, I assume their too busy worrying about 6/6/06 and too consumed with the mark of the beast to worry about what is going on in the world today.  After all, Jesus is coming back tomorrow --- and they'll inherit a mansion with streets of gold...and be out of this crappy smog infested sinful place.  Why should they care?\n\nBlindfolded sheeple are very dangerous...
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I agree with you.  I consider myself a Christian, and I say this with as much respect as possible: it doesn't really matter what God's opinion is on the subject because the Constitution guarantees everyone's right to religious freedom.  That includes Jews, Muslims, Baptists, Atheists, and yes, GAY PEOPLE.  I live my life according to God's law, but that does not give me the right to tell someone else how to live.
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They would like nothing better. Just like the Taliban did in Afghanistan. If you dont promote Christian ideals in the Bizarro Fundamentalist America you would be stoned to death.\n\nI am particularly chucked to see the trash answer provided above mine. Here a blind dogmatic fundamentalist is taking historical notes of out context to prove America was founded to promote the Christian Ideal. But he left out the rest of history, where the founders placed protections against those trying to impose religious beliefs directly into the Constitution? Why, because of the religious persecution in England, among other reasons.  Now the Fundamentalists want to create their own nation where its OK to persecute others for not following your beliefs.
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I am democrat. I believe in freedom! Plain and simple. America is about: Freedom! Choice! Rights!\n\nAll of these have been dwindled under republican rule. Yes, im a Christian, but I dont think that church and state should intermingle...separation of church and state is what this country was founded on, and i needs to stay like that to be solid.\n\nRepublicans think they can push THEIR morals onto other people...totally bypassing what america stands for...Independance!
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Oh I'm not so sure about that! Have you read George Washington's personal history about how the Constitution came about? And what about all those Christians who left their homes for the New World so they could have freedom of religion?  \nMaybe he's still at it and people just don't want to give him credit where credit is due!