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Between Facebook, conservative talk shows, and Pleonast, I've seen a lot of dialogue that consists mostly of tears, shock, putting out resumes in foreign countries, and re-emphasing the point that Jesus is Priest and King. These are all true, and while I fear for the unborn and am wondering how I can hide my money in off-shore accounts before my wealth gets redistributed, let's focus on many of the positives and lessons from yesterday.
1) For the first time ever, a non-Caucasian male was voted to our highest office. We finally prove that "all men are created equal" and we can agree that Obama's comments that barriers have been broken are true. Racism, segregation, and their antithesis, affirmative action, should now be completely in our past. If anyone doubts this, just look to our highest office on Jan 20, 2009. We'll always have our challenges, but if the black son of a single mother on welfare can become President, then no one has an excuse. As an aside to this, several states outlawed affirmative action requirements in their state constitutions.
2) I still own a nice home, my shower turned on perfectly this morning, I'm still employed; and while my savings account is significantly less than it was just a few months ago, I still enjoy a quality of life unheard of throughout history and in most parts of the world. I also have no reason to believe this will significantly change.
3) On Jan 20, 2009, our great country will transition between leaders in a peaceful fashion. This has happened 43 times in the past over 220 years; how many countries, past and present, can state this fact?
4) Most of us we're too busy in the '90's trying to transition to adulthood, get educated, find and court our spouses, and goof off with friends to realize that our parents endured 8 years of liberal leadership. They lived, they prospered, they put us through school. Life goes on.
5) The political pendulum goes back and forth. It swung in 1980, 1992, and 2000 (plus others outside of Presidential elections, like 1994); it'll do it again. The Dems have 4 years to prove themselves and given their majority, have no major barriers to whatever they want to accomplish as a party. If they fail, I have confidence in the American system that we'll push the pendulum back the other way.
6) Pro-Life and Defense of Marriage agendas are powerful and on the forefront of our nations minds, and they are making a difference. Voters in California overturned a ruling by their legislature giving rights to homosexual couples, proving that the system of checks-n-balances can work. Many other states already have similar laws on their books. Arkansas passed a law forbidding non-married couples to foster and adopt children, effectively locking out homosexual couples from wrongly influencing these children. While Colorado and South Dakota had anti-abortion initiatives fail, this is proof that there is enough political power to get these initiatives on our ballots. William Wilberfoce labored for over 40 years to get slavery outlawed in Britain in 1833; success doesn’t happen over night.
7) Record numbers of people exercised their right and privilege to vote; let’s not lose this momentum within ourselves to only get anxious over elections every two or four years. The political process is a year round endeavor of influencing those around us. (This same lesson can be applied to our worship attendance once a week….)
We live in a great nation and we are blessed. Let us not forget this, and let us not forget to request God to bless our country.
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