This Election

This election is about the DIRECTION of our country.  It will tell A LOT about the character and heart of our nation.  It will reveal our soul.

Are we going to continue on a path of more justice for all, equality and equitable treatment for ALL Americans?  Are we going to continue to move toward the better treatment of our most vulnerable in healthcare, safeguards and compassion?  Are we going to level the playing field in employment, education, healthcare, housing, safety and human rights?  Are we going to respect all people and not just those who are most like us?  Are we going to responsibly work with integrity among other nations?  Are we going to embrace the principles of democracy over our love for laissez faire capitalism?

OR

Are we going to work our way back to "the gilded age", during which wealthy robber barons in our nation could do whatever they wanted at the expense of most in our society, in order to make more quick profit for themselves?  Are we going to abandon the most vulnerable and eliminate safeguards so that we can give further tax breaks and "entitlements" to the most wealthy and powerful?  Are we going to continue to entitle those who have over those who have not, and put systemic mechanisms in place that widen the gap between the two?  Are we going to deepen the polarization in the nation, so that those in power can go unscathed toward more power and wealth, having successfully pitted the rest of us against each other?  Are we going to go back to policies and strengthen them that disrespect, exploit, run roughshod and meddle in the affairs of other nations across the world?  Are we going to weaken democracy and ultimately replace it completely with an oligarchic plutocracy?

Clearly, we have a choice tomorrow.
Clearly, the choice we make will reveal our heart and soul as a nation.

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." - Jesus
"By their fruits you will know them." - Jesus

I pray that we will re-elect President Obama because I am a  FOLLOWER OF THE WAY OF JESUS, and I cannot vote for someone who clearly does not follow Jesus - whether it is a political party, a candidate or an ideology.

JESUS demands that we work toward justice and peace, equity, equality and Agape Love for the most vulnerable.  Anyone who votes for an ideology, party or candidate that goes against those things, votes AGAINST JESUS and His teachings and examples.

Vote your conscience - but if you claim to be a "Christian", vote your conscience informed by your faith and understanding of what Jesus taught and exemplified, as we have that in The Gospels...

... because YOUR VOTE reveals YOUR HEART AND SOUL...

Rev. Jamie Kaufman