Funny, but now that we're looking at President-elect Obama, I just remembered a column from Bible Girl back on February 29, in which she said that she can't vote for Obama because of abortion, even though she's a white Pentecostal who has long attended a black charismatic church. This was the excerpt that came to mind:
One of my friends reminded me that, in 2001, a Nigerian pastor had prophesied to us that after the Bush years were completed, we would have a black president. We never forgot his words.
And yet, though Bible Girl (Julie Lyons) says she could never ally with the Republican Party because of what she sees as its insensitivity to racial injustice, she can't bring herself to vote Obama (this was written during the primary season). Why? It's interesting to read, in light of the coming Obama presidency:
Yet I can't escape the words of Kings. God will judge a leader by one thing: his faithfulness to God's Word on matters for which the Christian position is clear.No, that's not a fashionable concept these days. It won't win me many friends in the circles I travel. I do understand that we don't live in a theocracy; our nation is governed by a constitution. As voters, we deal in a continuum of hope and reality. We don't get everything we want.
Well, whoever said the world would understand or approve of followers of Jesus Christ?
I believe that Barack Obama will be our next president; the hand of God is upon him. If you read Kings, though, that can cut many ways.
If he does become president, I will pray for him, and I will honor and support him in whatever he does that isn't in conflict with the Word of God.
But I will not give him my vote.
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I'm a middle-aged Southern white woman who's always voted Republican until this election. Two weeks ago I voted early for the first black president, Barack Obama, who is also a Democrat. I did so with pride and trepidation. As a Christian, I'm troubled with his position on abortion. Yet, his overall personal qualities speak of his ability to listen and learn. I feel in this man the desire to grow in his own understanding.
As a Southerner who grew up hearing racist relatives make the most awful and shameful remarks about the "Nigras," I'm proud that I have the chance to support this man who has transcended the pain of so many years of history.
God bless Barack Obama and God bless America.
We need to give this man our prayers. We need to ask the Lord to watch over him, to guide him, and to help him make this country a better place. God Bless you President Elect Obama. Jesus will see you through this.
The words of an ancient book apply to a President of the US in 2008?
Choke, laugh, laugh, choke laugh.
Of the superstitious there seems to be no end.
Last night was for Janice Grigsby, wherever she might be. And this is, too, God bless her.
so how do you people feel now??
no christian should of ever voted for this man
DB
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