Phil, Amen!

Blessings,
Pat Ferguson
At 11:24 AM 11/7/2008, you wrote:
>I am a Concerned American Voting Citizen
>
>By Phil Scovell
>
>
>      I followed the primaries this time more than I ever have
>before and I am a Ronald Reagan conservative.  I may even be more
>conservative than he was but he likely will be the greatest
>president in my lifetime.  Now, fast forward to the present day.
>
>      As I write this, a man of mixed race, who prefers being
>addressed as an afro American, even when he is half white and half
>black, has been elected to be the president of the United States.
>No, I did not vote for him nor could I.  I am not a political
>socialist, I do not believe in any form of Marxism, Leninism,
>Maoism, Communism, and most other isms, come to think of it, that
>fall outside the political scheme of open and free capitalistic
>governments which are representative republics.  I also have a
>strong affinity for religious freedom, freedom of speech, that is,
>the first amendment, gun ownership, the second amendment, and I
>could go on and on so I'll stop with the amendments at this point
>and just say, I am a constitutionalist.  No, I don't believe it is
>an inspired document, as the Bible being the Word of God, but I do
>believe God ordained the penning of the constitution and
>furthermore, I believe He ordained the creation of this country
>and its government.  I am also what some call pro life, or more
>specifically, anti abortion.  I am the father of a daughter, who
>has two fine children, but who, to my knowledge, has had at least
>one abortion.  We, her father and mother, learned about it after
>the fact.  She was an adult, married, and living away from home at
>the time she made her decision.  No, I couldn't have stopped her
>at the time even if I had known of it because she was an adult.  I
>could, of course, talk about what I believe, and don't believe,
>politically, page after page but I won't.  Needless to say, I
>cannot, nor will I ever, vote for anyone who believes abortion
>isn't the killing of the innocent.  If you are not a Bible
>believing, born again Christian, you may not understand why I said
>what I just stated but I can't help it if you are unable to meet
>me half way and accept me as a free American citizen who has the
>right to vote.
>
>      After it was officially announced our new president elect
>was Barak Obama, I was greatly disappointed for all of the reason
>mentioned above and more.  On the other hand, I have two adopted
>grandchildren of mixed races.  I don't ever think of them more
>black than Mexican or more Mexican than American Indian, or more
>American Indian than black.  I trust you get my drift.  It doesn't
>matter, in other words, to me.  I do care if you cannot prove,
>when you are running for office in this country, if you are an
>American citizen, American born, in order to fulfill the
>constitutional requirements of the United states.  Yes, I even
>care if you live in this country illegally.  I do care about the
>other issues I personally believe in as both an American but most
>importantly, as a born again Christian.  With all this said, let
>me also tell you how I felt after the election.
>
>      I felt proud to be an American.  The system still works.  I
>was proud to live in a country, where in my lifetime, a black man
>could be elected as the president in a free election by the
>people.  I also thought, since I was alive when Martin Luther King
>Junior was shot and killed, how I wished he had been able to
>witness how far we have come since his famous, "I Have A Dream,"
>speech which is still just as inspirational to me today as it was
>so many decades ago.  I also felt the need to pray for this new
>president probably more than any president I have ever prayed for
>in my 56 years of life.  With that in mind, we all should pray for
>our country more than we ever have because I believe Jesus is
>coming in my lifetime and perhaps much sooner than we think.  I
>personally plan on seeing Him for myself when He comes because of
>the promise I quote below.
>
>1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us,
>that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world
>knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
>2  Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet
>appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear,
>we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
>
>
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