Thoughts on candidates, views

It is a curious collection of candidates which our political process has placed before us.

On the Republican side we have John McCain, who voted against the marriage amendment because he thinks states should decide the question. McCain also relies on the Federal Defense of Marriage Act as a protection for the historical and moral definition of marriage.

How would the states defend marriage against a presidency of Barack Obama? Obama has assured homosexuals that he would support complete repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

As is true of many of his statements, Obama's words combine beautiful talk with rebuttal of historical and scientific fact. Take, for example, his claim that he is a Christian. As a Christian myself, I support individuals in their efforts as Christians. However, when Obama classifies St. Paul's comments about homosexuality as coming from "an obscure passage in Romans," it is apparent that Obama is a Christian who needs to return to the Holy Book and discover why Jesus said what he did about sexuality in Mark 10:6-9.

McCain may be opposed to homosexual practice, but he ignores what the Democrats would do to marriage by their judicial appointments. Both Obama and Hillary Clinton have stated that they would appoint judges who decide on the basis of what they believe, and not on the basis of what the U.S. constitution says -- similar to the liberal judges whose decisions are already destroying America's cultural foundation.

And then there is Hillary's statement that she would have left a church if she disagreed with the pastor's sermons. Well, Mrs. Clinton, you and I have been members of the same denomination -- I for more decades than you. I did leave that denomination when I found out that my bishop promoted secularism instead of the teachings of Jesus.

I will vote for McCain. He won't raise our taxes, and he at least offers a chance of getting a decent judiciary.

Emmit Lehman

Grayslake