{"id":1370,"date":"2012-09-05T14:30:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T19:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidcprice.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/05\/a-deal-breaker"},"modified":"2012-09-05T14:30:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T19:30:44","slug":"a-deal-breaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/a-deal-breaker\/","title":{"rendered":"A Deal-Breaker"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a pastor, I don’t officially endorse candidates. I am a registered Independent who makes every attempt to take a biblical<\/em> approach to issues related to politics. \u00a0Though I try to refrain from talking about specific candidates and believe it is wrong to turn a church pulpit into a political “stump”, it is<\/em> my responsibility to speak truth wherever I see it.<\/p>\n

The following is an excerpt of an article I read this morning on the platform being adopted by the Democratic Party at this years convention. \u00a0Fiscal<\/em> issues I may disagree with aside, as a Christ-following political Independent, I can never support a candidate who takes this position:<\/p>\n

The 2012 Democratic party will officially adopt an extreme position on the issue of abortion on Tuesday. According to a copy of the party platform<\/a>, which was released online just before midnight on Monday, “The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports\u00a0Roe<\/em> v. Wade<\/em> and a woman\u2019s right to make decisions regarding her pregnancy, including a safe and legal\u00a0abortion, regardless of ability to pay<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

That last part—“regardless of ability to pay”—is an endorsement of taxpayer-funded abortions, a policy that President Obama has personally endorsed. (WS<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Clearly, there are thousands who agree with this position. That is beside the point. \u00a0It is beyond reprehensible to try and force people\u00a0to pay who do NOT and who consider this practice to be nothing short of the legalized murder of a human being who has done nothing wrong but simply come into existence. I wrote more on the subject here<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n

If there really is a desire to cut down on the number of abortions, how about government assistance for adoption<\/em> instead? \u00a0THAT<\/em> I could support.<\/p>\n

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As a pastor, I don’t officially endorse candidates. I am a registered Independent who makes every attempt to take a biblical approach to issues related to politics. \u00a0Though I try to refrain from talking about specific candidates and believe it is wrong to turn a church pulpit into a political “stump”, it is my responsibility…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2,18],"tags":[29,684,155,352],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3jKZO-m6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":139,"url":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/my-politics\/","url_meta":{"origin":1370,"position":0},"title":"My Politics","date":"October 22, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"For too long, in my opinion, Christians, in general, have aligned themselves with a particular party. 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