Celebrate Today, Vote in November

I’ve always thought of myself as fairly patriotic. I love this country and her rich history. It’s hard fighting my urge to become a political junkie. It’s just that what happens in our government affects almost everything around us. Of course I realize my citizenship is in My Father’s Kingdom and we shouldn’t expect the laws made by men to bring about the kinds of spiritual change that can only occur when individuals are in relationship with God. However, without laws and law makers that reflect The Lawgiver’s principles or some basic morality, this Nation will never become the God honoring country our founders envisioned. And by continuing to elect those whose commitment to and understanding of our constitution is questionable, at best, we stray even further from being a beacon of liberty and freedom in this world.

In the November presidential election we will pick our next president. Our choices from the two big parties seem to be men of “politics as usual” and personal power rather than men of conviction and leadership. So I’ve decided I might vote for Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party.

The conventional wisdom is that third party candidates can never win so you only hurt the major party candidate with whom you agree the most and hand the win to the other guy. That may be true in this case as well. But I’m just sick and tired of half-heartedly voting for somebody because they aren’t the other guy. Chuck Baldwin is a fine Christian man and I know he’s not just a political hack.

By the way, can you tell me what the Democrat or Republican parties stand for? I tried to find a nice, simple and neat list on the two major party sites. But the best they had were four year old platform documents of 43 and 92 pages. Sort of speaks for itself that they are clearly the parties of bureaucracy, doesn’t it? Here are seven principles of the Constitution Party:

1. Life: For all human beings, from conception to natural death;
2. Liberty: Freedom of conscience and actions for the self-governed individual;
3. Family: One husband and one wife with their children as divinely instituted;
4. Property: Each individual's right to own and steward personal property without government burden;
5. Constitution: and Bill of Rights interpreted according to the actual intent of the Founding Fathers;
6. States' Rights: Everything not specifically delegated by the Constitution to the federal government is reserved for the state and local jurisdictions;
7. American Sovereignty: American government committed to the protection of the borders, trade, and common defense of Americans, and not entangled in foreign alliances.


Life, liberty, less government, state’s rights and original intent. These all seem pretty basic and easy to understand. And for the most part they also seem to be poles apart from either of the other candidates’ actions.

Well, enough of the politics. Enjoy your celebration of The United States of America on her 232nd birthday. Remember those who fought to establish her, those who have died defending her and those who serve her today so we can enjoy the blessings of this country.