New politics and religion survey

I enjoyed it, but stumbled on the question of "illegal immigrants." Does the question mean you support their right for legal status, or that you want them on the next plane to Mexico? It didn't say.

So I had to answer "in the middle," even though my feelings on the subject are anything but.

I like the idea of the survey, finding out if there were other issues important in the faith & politics matrix, but as mentioned previously, some questions were a bit leading against the traditional conservative Christian agenda, and more favorably towards the progressive Christian agenda.

I believe that most, if not all, issues asked about should be important to followers of Christ. How they should be addressed - through government/church sponsored action or private individual/group action - is the where the real question/debate is.

But just as I think the way to reduce abortions is through education and culture rather than a government ban, I also think the way to tackle the environment and poverty is better suited for private individual and group action. Just because Christians have not done a good job raising awareness of these issues on the private side of things, does not mean I want the state to come in and do our job.

I am all for setting up government programs and policies to encourage the private and individual sectors to lead the way in all movements, Christian and non-Christian, but if you don't think that soon after a government program to end poverty is initiated that the state will be spending more money on bureaucracy than actually helping the poor, you’re kidding yourself.

i agree, alot of the questions created a flase dichotomies. i'm not Christian and would simply prefer they mind their own business rather than trying to tell everyone else how or how they're going to live.
i should have liked options added where an alternate answer could be recorded.