'This Is Not a Bluff'

Response to bluestari: 1) Where in the 6th commandment are we forbidden to take only "innocent" life, and whose idea of of innocent are we to follow...yours? 2) So in your last sentence you support taking the lives of "innocent " people as long as their death(s) enable the "innocent" to live safely? But what if you've just killed those "innocent" people? How are their lives safer now that they're dead? HUH???????

you are not listening to what he says. since when, if someone disagrees with your opinion,-it has to be wrong. there is more to the constitution than a couple of knee jerk reactions. most people want a moral copmass includded in our leaders. try to care about things than selfish motivation. you are the prejudicious ones

One can only hope! I might actually consider voting Republican again.... someday. Conservative Christians, intolerance, and too much FAR right influence have ruined the Republican Party. It has lost ALL it's moderates (me) in the last seven years. Wake up GOP!

I am all for a third party, a forth and fifth. A two-party system is shallow, deceiving, arrogant, self-serving and non-demogratic. But frankly, and sadly, I have by now given up on America. What I wish for is a president who leaves the world alone!!!

I have always felt we needed a third party. The Democrats and Republicans have their own agenda and could care less about the people. I have been a registered republican for decades and now I changed my party affiliation to Independent. I won't vote just for party loyalty any longer. I vote for those who have my interests in mind.

Richard Land is correct. I switched parties just so I could help elect George W. Bush. The Republican Party is not giving us what we asked for in the last election. Why should we settle with voting the lesser of two evils. We want a pro-life candidate!

So would Mr. Land also insist that someone such as Gov. Huckabee make a speech where he declares that he is "...not the candidate of the evangelicals, but a candidate who happens to be an Evangelical..." If not, then the whole movement has no credibility with me. Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs, but as someone who is not Christian, what is my assurance that any candidate Mr. Land supports will not run over my beliefs, so long as they are moral and do not violate any laws. This is a grave concern.

I too have had it with all this Christianity. They dont care if religion is in The White House as LONG AS IT'S THEIRS.

I love these 'Christians' and their 'truth' that they quote from the Bible. It's a circular argument: the Bible tells them it is the truth so the truth must be in the Bible. Why? Because the Bible tells them so, therefore, the Bible is true. How do they know? It says so, right there in the Bible so everything the Bible says is true . . . yada, yada, yada.

Look, there are some really great things said in the Bible about how to treat other people, other cultures and the earth. But, if you would actually study the history of the Bible, you'd know that there is lots of things in there that are 'for illustrative purposes, only'. There is some Biblical history that tracks with real history but there is also some that does not. Like all religious texts, it is a bit self serving and has been heavily edited over the course of history.

America WAS NOT founded as a Christian nation. Period. There is NO argument possible. Many of the founding fathers were Christian but some were not. They used much more than their religious beliefs to draft our Constitution; things such as ancient Greek legal philosophy, and other historical examples of humanitarian based legal systems and philosophies in addition to their Christian beliefs. One thing that is really telling is that they were, excepting for John Adams, passionately adamant about keeping religion OUT of government because of the persecution they saw and knew had happened throughout history when a government is based on any single religious belief.

"Religious belief" . . . the very term defines itself, it is a belief unprovable by facts. Does that mean it's wrong? No, it just means that it can not be proven. Well, if it isn't wrong, then it must be right. Correct? No, that is faulty logic, it just means that it can not be proven to be either right or wrong. The world just isn't black and white, rather it's a little messy.

Roe v. Wade? First off, let's look at what the opinion actually says: the state has no rights over the disposition of the fetus in the first trimester, the state has limited rights in the second trimester and the state can control the fate of the fetus in the third trimester. That's it folks. Too many people on both sides extort it way beyond this and base their opinion on faulty knowledge. I'm in total agreement with RvW AS IT WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN. I do not like abortion and hope that someone will chose not to have it, but I also respect the right and understand that there are times when it is just better to terminate. If all of you Anti-choice (NOT pro-life! that's a misnomer if I ever saw one) would direct you efforts toward prevention through all available methods, not just abstinence, and help when someone has an unwanted baby, the whole thing would become a non-issue and abortions would go down. No, abstinence only programs do not work, it has just been shown that abstinence only programs have absolutely NO effect in lowering unintended pregnancy rates.

NO, we don't need a leader that "...will represent the values of Christianity." We need a leader that represents the values of a free, open, American society

why Mike? John Edwards is also a real compassionate person inside to and closer to Christian than any Bush family

Amen to JessE75... we need to look for the BEST LEADER. I think we know what we don't want... the example of what we've had to live with for the past 2 elections. Compromising and working together is a strong ingredient in pulling us out of the muck n' mire that the present administration has put us in. I really don't see anyone as a promising presidential candidate...expect maybe Ron Paul, and only time will tell!something thoug