Re: FW: The Election is not lost

I think issues such as abortion and homosexuality should be addressed in local communities and churches and not by passing laws at the federal level that try to restrict things that you can't restrict with laws. I don't think the federal government is helpful at increasing morals. People who want to shape their communities should be more involved with local and state governments, and we can reshape this country one community at a time, passing a law that says gays can't get married, or it is illegal to get an abortion won't stop those behaviors only make them criminal. We don't need a more of these kinds of criminals in jail, our jails are already overcrowded. If we have faith to move mountains then we can make changes without just passing some laws, that's lazy and non-effective. We do need smaller federal government. I don't think the people voting from Obama want a bigger government either... they may get it perhaps... he may be liberal, but I don't believe he is the 'enemy' or a terrorist. John McCain had praise for him at the Alfred E. Smith awards dinner. He is a competitor. It's dangerous to put everything into black and white I think... I think things are complex... A polarized world of everything must be good or evil makes people want to fight half the things they see instead of trying to love all the things they see.... maybe democrats *are* too huggy feel-good for everyone... I like that better than the fear-based tactics of the conservatives... there are real threats out there that need to be taken care of, but getting everybody into a fear-state is as bad in my opinion as getting everybody into a welfare-state! maybe that's the choice we have in 4 days... fear-state or welfare-state ;-)