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News/Politics 11-4-14

What’s interesting in the news today?

The obvious choice is election related news. Since it’s election day, let’s try an Election Day Open Thread. As the day goes on, feel free to post stories of races in your area, as well as update us on potential shenanigans like those seen in early voting. Have fun. 🙂

Here’s 2 from me to start things off.

1. I think both sides have some valid points, but it doesn’t feel right to me personally. The potential for abuses is great, and it’s not what they should be focusing on.

But on the other hand why shouldn’t they have the same free speech rights as everyone else? And let’s face it, this has been going on in certain churches since the 60’s anyway, and the IRS leaves them alone. But still…

From Politico  “A record number of rogue Christian pastors are endorsing candidates from the pulpit this election cycle, using Sunday sermons to defiantly flout tax rules.

Their message to the IRS: Sue me.

But the tax agency is doing anything but. Although the IRS was sued itself for not enforcing the law and admitted about 100 churches may be breaking the rules, the pastors and their critics alike say the agency is looking the other way. The agency refuses to say if it is acting.

At the same time, the number of pastors endorsing candidates in what they call Pulpit Freedom Sunday jumped from 33 people in 2008 to more than 1,600 this year, according to organizers, Alliance Defending Freedom. And this year, they’ve stepped up their drive, telling pastors to back candidates any Sunday up until the election, not just one Sunday as in past years.”

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2. Nope. No need for ID here….. 🙄

From Project Veritas Action

It’s that easy.

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21 thoughts on “News/Politics 11-4-14”

  1. One reason not to preach politics from the pulpit is that it divides the church. But it’s right to preach moral issues: abortion, same sex marriage, etc.
    The soul and destiny of the country is at stake.

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  4. From Drudge:
    This is common in Muslim countries, but this is in Norway.

    Thea’ introduces the blog by writing: “My name is Thea and I’m 12 years old and in about one month I will marry,” before going on to describe how she is preparing for her nuptials on 11 October, coincidentally the UN’s International Day of the Girl Child.

    This year, the UN has pledged to focus the day on child brides, with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon urging governments, communities and families to “let girls be girls” and grow up safely.
    Featuring images of ‘Thea’ in traditional settings the blog, which has already received more than half a million views, touches upon aspects of her future marriage she is concerned about – such as sex and children…..
    …..
    In one post, the 12-year-old describes how her mother is annoyed at her after she misbehaves, writing: “Think she want me to get my own children soon”, and expressing her fear towards the expectation of sex.
    An estimated 39,000 child brides are married every day. In countries such as Niger or Bangladesh more than 60 per cent of girls will be married before their eighteenth birthday, dramatically affecting their health and opportunities.
    Statistics compiled by the UN estimate if present trends of child marriage continue, the number of girls married before their eighteenth birthday could climb towards 150 million in the next decade.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/meet-thea-norways-12yearold-child-bride-9782495.html

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  5. Authentic Christianity will always triumph over Islam not only because it is true, but because it produces a better society. However, Islam will triumph over the combination of materialism and perversion that dominates Western Europe and most of the US. In 50 years New England will be Muslim along with many other parts of the US.

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  7. What’s ironic to me is that churches on the left have been openly preaching politics — even having politicians give the Sunday message from the pulpit — for years. It just seems to be an unevenly applied rule.

    Don’t get me wrong, I would HATE for a politician to be in our pulpit — I can’t imagine a church that would allow such folly. But it’s done not infrequently in many black churches, so my only point is that it’s a standard that isn’t being fairly applied across the board.

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  8. I still remember election night 2012 and what a come down that was … I didn’t love-love-love Romney, but to realize that we’d have 4 more years of the current president was beyond discouraging, especially after so many predictions that it would turn out differently.

    (I always believed the November 2012 polls that said it was neck-in-neck down to the wire, too close to call. But so many on the conservative side were so sure it would be Romney’s night — that was a tough loss. I remember being on the blog that night when one of the key states “fell” surprisingly quick and early and asking “Am I the only one here who’s getting a sinking feeling?” AJ replied, “No, you’re not the only one.”)

    So we’ll see about the Senate tonight. But either way, conservatives have to get their act together in the next couple years and offer the American people some more viable alternatives. It seems like everyone’s suddenly just out of ideas on how to get out of this mess we’re in — and are also at a loss on how to inspire Americans again.

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  10. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/11/final-thoughts-on-todays-election-but-no-predictions.php

    ” … Mitt Romney’s pollsters were famously wrong in 2012. They thought Mitt was going to win because they failed to foresee how extraordinarily effective the Democrats’ ground game would be; therefore, they underestimated Democratic turnout. The great unknown in this year’s election is, how many Democrats will the party be able to drive to the polls, notwithstanding that Obama is not on the ballot and things have gone poorly for the administration and for Senate Democrats over the last two years? The reality is that no pollster knows the answer to that question. I don’t either, but I do know this: the Democrats have gone bats**t crazy to motivate their base, and they have more money than God. … “

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  11. This is the 3rd report. Starting to see a pattern? And as always, it benefits Democrats.

    http://freebeacon.com/politics/virginia-voting-machine-turns-republican-vote-into-democrat-vote/

    “Electronic voting machines in Virginia are preventing voters from selecting a Republican candidate in the state’s second congressional district, a video posted to YouTube on Tuesday shows.

    The video, posted by an anonymous user, shows a voter attempting to vote for Rep. Scott Rigell (R., Va.).

    The electronic voting machine automatically switches the voter’s selection to Democratic challenger Suzanne Patrick. The problem is widespread in the district, Rigell told a local news station.”

    They’re saying there are reports that this “problem” is widespread.

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  12. And voting machines are calibrated by SEIU workers…that’s what I heard on the radio the other day. Not that they would try to cheat or anything…

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  13. Well, I voted.

    Christians and voting:

    http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/why-christians-should-vote

    “…John Witte Jr., in his book From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion and Law in the Western Tradition, describes how the early church fathers publicly spoke out in favor of marriage and against evils like child abuse, polygamy, and abortion. These early leaders, who knew a thing or two about persecution and preaching the gospel, loved their neighbors enough to speak to political issues in a system that afforded them no formal power. How much more should we speak out given our political tradition is predicated on the active commitment of an informed citizenry? … voting as political participation is a way of telling our neighbors—believers and nonbelievers alike—that we too are committed to a vision of the good life. We care about their well-being, even on issues that are secondary to eternal matters. For politics concerns decisions that contribute to a free society in which people can worship, evangelize, provide food for the hungry and clothing to the naked, schools for learning, and justice for the poor. Our Father in heaven knows we need these things too, and he uses our action in the voting booth in part to provide them.”

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