Believers in the Pews--and the Polling Booth

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  • Posted By: sharonann.tomal @ 06/23/2008 6:41:50 PM

    I am very much a believer in God, and yes I will vote for McCain. The reason is not complicated, since no party has a monopoly on all the right answers/views, I must go with the party that follows God on most of these issues. McCain does. If you can not respect and value life at it's most vulnerable, then how can you lecture (as Obama frequently does) on war being morally wrong, helping the poor, etc . A couple lessons Mr. Obama has to learn: While helping the poor was close to the heart of Jesus, he is no way FORCED anyone to do so. Funny, how democrats are so "pro-choice" when it comes to taking a life, but become the socialists they really are when it comes to everything else.

    • Posted By: speckelbelly @ 06/25/2008 6:47:37 PM

      REAL SMART THERE, VOTE FOR THE FLYING BABY KILLER McCAIN.
      WAR IS WRONG! HELPING THE POOR?OBAMA HAS DONE WAY MORE IN GODS WALK OF LIFE THAN JOHN McCAIN WILL EVER THINK OF DOING!
      YOU HAD BETTER STUDY MORE ON THE LIFE OF OBAMA .

    • Posted By: Just Us Plz! @ 06/23/2008 8:07:17 PM

      Jesus never forced anyone not to take a life either, not even his own!!!

  • Posted By: Karenn1 @ 06/25/2008 9:01:55 AM

    This election is about Democrats vs Republicans.Religion is for one's own self.Fools will be fools and let it influence their vote.This time even a fool won't want to keep the slime in charge.Republicans can put lipstick on the pig,but it won't fly.The fool is broke.

  • Posted By: Karenn1 @ 06/25/2008 9:01:54 AM

    This election is about Democrats vs Republicans.Religion is for one's own self.Fools will be fools and let it influence their vote.This time even a fool won't want to keep the slime in charge.Republicans can put lipstick on the pig,but it won't fly.The fool is broke.

  • Posted By: solomonc10 @ 06/23/2008 8:26:38 PM

    When black Americans awaken, they will realize that Senator Obama was never a friend of the black church. By his own admission, he has been absent for about 20 years. The black church is Obama's whipping boy, and at the same time his talisman!

    • Posted By: sjpersonal @ 06/24/2008 2:51:50 PM

      Ok, so now he never went to church, before some of those who will not support him were claiming that for 20 years he fed spiritually, at the feet of hate in his church. Which is it?

  • Posted By: paulte @ 06/24/2008 11:47:03 AM

    The Democrats have boxed themselves into a corner with their liberal social views. They retain the support of blacks in general but I wouldn't be surprised if the tiny portion of blacks who don't vote Democratic about 10% are the most authentically religious. The Democrats have also been losing ground with the Hispanics, 40% of whom voted for George Bush last time. If they want to capture the Presidency more often, they need to distance themselves form th socially liberal groups, feminists, gays, trial lawyers, etc.

    • Posted By: malikmitch @ 06/24/2008 1:04:17 PM

      Here we go with the "No real christian" comments. Christians come in all shapes, sizes and flavors. Just as all other religious people and non-religious people. No one group has a lock on morality the past and the present make that painfully (literally and figuratively) obvious. people should make their decisions based on the ideals not based on whatever a certain denomination/preacher/priest says, that is how we got one of the worst presidents in american history governing us now.

  • Posted By: Marine#1 @ 06/23/2008 6:43:50 PM

    Unfortunatly, most of these Americans mentioned are your typical everyday hypocrits or should I say hypochristians. These people go play out drugs, murder, rape, and all other criminal activity and go to church on Sunday to repent. Sounds rather Catholic. The political thing is plain and simple Barrack Osama only gets votes from majority black voters because he is simply Black. Clinton because she's a Woman lets just be real MORONS

    • Posted By: paulte @ 06/24/2008 11:54:12 AM

      Well, at least they repent; that's what Bill Clinton does! Of course it would be better not to sin in the first place. However, murder, rape & extortion are not exactly your garden variety type of sins. Most people don't do that kind of thing anyway.

  • Posted By: sharkman @ 06/24/2008 6:56:25 AM

    Newsweek your articles suck.

  • Posted By: Indian mary @ 06/23/2008 10:19:28 PM

    Unless one does not believe the Canon and even less in your god. Self-serving hedonistic freedoms? Wow, you just set us back a few centuries.

  • Posted By: Just Us Plz! @ 06/23/2008 8:06:08 PM

    Obama is the most qualified not just because he is black 90% of blacks have supported EVERY white Dem since the Civil Rights Movement, any complaints There?, and lets not even compare IQ scores among any of the candidates

  • Posted By: Just Us Plz! @ 06/23/2008 8:04:10 PM

    Wow.. I am so surprised for people to with such ease make judgements about others especially concerning their personal faith, that is a very dangerous path to tread!!

  • Posted By: 955rutabagas @ 06/23/2008 1:38:11 PM

    Are religiously active Americans only male? Or did the survey only query men? One might think so, based on the exclusively male pronouns used in your opening sentence.

    You managed to use male and female pronouns later in your article. Certainly a gender-inclusive construction would have been possible in your opening sentence.

    Come on, Newsweek. You ought to know better by now.

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