Focus on Elections: More Than Prayer and a Vote!

More Than Prayer and A Vote

For the Record... 

I must address the obvious up front. it may be construed by some that my story is just a reflection of a “sour grapes” attitude, because the outcome of my electoral race was a loss. if i had won, would the message be any less necessary? uh...no! 

True, the election was a grand disappointment. however, i will admit and others concur that my personal life is much better because i did not win. if that sounds selfish, it is. Serving in the legislature is no picnic. i might have driven my fellow legislators crazy with my get to it attitude and efficient use of time and extreme dislike for rambling verbiage. i know that the media is upset as they would have loved attacking me as they generally do with politicians of integrity and conviction to moral principles. 

Nonetheless, my loss for a house seat was critical. it brought us closer to losing the majority. it was the house of Representatives who kept many pieces of liberal legislation from making their way to the governor’s desk and becoming law. Final straw: During the next election cycle we did lose it, all of it! 

Alas, in 2007 all three branches of the legislature were controlled by the liberals. The majority rules and they certainly did. They revealed their real agenda by passing domestic partnership laws overriding the initiative passed by the voters in 2004 to protect traditional marriage. They continued to move oregon further into socialism threatening the middle class, while not enforcing laws to report and arrest illegal immigrants jeopardizing the basic protection of citizenship and liberty. 

We lost everything because the other side slowly and persistently took control. Where were you? god’s people have been asleep at the switch when it comes to elections. We are not really committed to winning, unless you consider football. no, that doesn’t count when future lives are at stake! Some very good people have been let down, people we should be helping and supporting. We are being intimidated and run out of town by those who are committed to winning; secularist liberals! 

Apathy is not just an Oregon phenomenon. it is common knowledge within national policy and legal organizations that god’s people have lost much of their “chutzpah” when it comes to engaging the culture and getting involved in defining the laws that govern them, er...us. 

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the university of edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier: 

“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. 

From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship. 

This is serious. it is happening, but we can and we must stop this trend toward socialism and a godless society. We can and we must get energized and get moving, or the freedoms and opportunities we cherish will be forever lost!