Posted on 01/30/2008 11:32:45 PM PST by bshomoic
BRANSON, MO. — Kindergarten teacher Tim Atkinson juggles math and a little U.S. history with Bible verses.
One moment he is working on addition and subtraction with his seven young students at Berean Liberty Christian Academy. The next, he is using song to help them memorize passages from the Bible.
At this tiny Christian school, scholastic rigor exists alongside a giant white poster illustrating the seven days of Creation.
Atkinson, 33, an evangelical Christian, is at ease shifting between the religious and nonreligious.
And he is using this same balancing act to determine whom to vote for in Tuesday's presidential primary.
He likes Mike Huckabee, the former governor and Southern Baptist preacher from just across the border in Arkansas. He respects Huckabee's morality, his sense of right and wrong. But Atkinson knows Huckabee is a long shot. So he has a backup: Sen. John McCain.
"I don't think I'd have to worry with a guy like Huckabee or McCain," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
Man, as conservatives, we are not getting the word out. That is painfully clear. Our own people don’t even give a darn about conservative principles anymore. Good luck.
Doesn’t this guy care about right to life?
He cares that Romney is a Mormon.
I’m not urging the guy to vote for anyone, but it sure is interesting he thinks the likes of McCain is a safe bet.
McCain has been railing on Christian conservatives. That alone should tell this guy something.
Note how often McCain brings up Pro-Life and Pro-Family issues: Never.
When Mitt Romney took the floor of the US Senate to argue on behalf of the Federal Marriage Amendment, John McCain voted against it.
But he’s a sure bet... (/sarc)
both mccain and huckabee are reasonably pro-life. The difference is that the abortion rate actually went down quite a bit in Arkansas and Huckabee can take credit for it because he was governor.
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I have a friend that voted for McCain, when I told him I was surprised given my friend’s conservative beliefs with regard to Amnesty, Taxes, Global Warminy Hoax etc., he replied that he didn’t know McCain’s position on those issues.
Sad really.
The St Louis Post Disgrace is not getting the truth out.
They along with The Kansas City Red Star and The Springfield New-Loser lean so far left their right foot never touches the ground.
(note: while I don’t endorse mccain, there is such a refreshing difference between his clear principled position on gays in the military and Mitt)
mccain:
http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid45043.asp
In an April 16 letter to the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, McCain said, “I believe polarization of personnel and breakdown of unit effectiveness is too high a price to pay for well-intentioned but misguided efforts to elevate the interests of a minority of homosexual service members above those of their units.
“Most importantly, the national security of the United States, not to mention the lives of our men and women in uniform, are put at grave risk by policies detrimental to the good order and discipline which so distinguish America’s armed services.”
McCain, who voted in favor of “don’t ask, don’t tell” when it was enacted in 1993, concluded that “I remain opposed to the open expression of homosexuality in the U.S. military.”
Romney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWjehgwTgp0&feature=related
more equivocation again from the MittFlipper who opposed “don’t ask, don’t tell” before he was for it...and may consider changing it again!
So did the voters in Nevada as will those in Utah. I am a little sick of the one-way street critiques I have been seeing of late. It reminds me of a bunch of whining liberals. Mormons voting for Romney is not bigotry, yet anyone else can be branded a bigot because they do not vote for him?
I think if they want to vote for Romney because he is Mormon, against him because he is Mormon or just don’t care either way, it is fine with me. I am just tired of all the stereotypical slanders of Southerners and Evangelicals to try to promote “The Myth”. The logic that finds him one whit more conservative or electable than any of the rest is just rhetorical propaganda. McCain may be the nastiest of the lot, but not one of the group is any more or less a conservative than any of the others. I supported Hunter, so I know a conservative when I see one. What we have now ain’t it.
So this “conservative” teacher likes open borders, higher taxes, Guantanamo prisoners coming to the states and other Ted Kennedy Jr policies? Talking about lost in the woods.....
“I don’t think I’d have to worry with a guy like Huckabee or McCain,” he said.
I don’t think, he thinks or reads anything but the Bible. A Souther Baptist Seminary Professor friend once told me that a lot of these folks, seminary students, come from small towns and are afraid to get out and see the world. They become insulated from the real world, only listening to their peers, and see life “tinted” glasses and assume that everyone that is not part of their group is evil and possessed by the devil.
In effect they become cultist.
My mistake. I thought McCain was rather soft on that.
Yes, a political revolution is overdue.
“Doesn’t this guy care about right to life?”
Maybe thats why he wont vote for an abortion flip-flopper like Romney...
Listen when Rudy and Mitt were flying high the Pro-Life folks were told that despite huge reservations we should shut the hell up because while mitt might have been a flip-flopper on abortion he was still better than the alternative...
Well the shoe is on the other foot now we have McCain and Huckabee who are defiantly not as conservative fiscally as say Thompson but are far better than Hillary or Obama. Perhaps now the Fiscal first folks can see just how distasteful it was to us to be told the thing most important to us (social conservatives) was negotiable for the ‘greater good’..
Huck is my ideal social candidate but I could have happily voted for Thompson or Hunter. And I can still hold my breath for McCain. But I cant vote for a pro-choice person and I dont trust Willards recent conversion.
McCain took the Wisconsin Right to Life to the Supreme Court in order to deny them speech prior to an election.
Alito wrote the decision which sent McNasty to the corner. Must be why McNasty hates Alito.
MCain IS nasty and he can rewrite the GOP platform to dump a pro life stance. I wouldn’t be at all surprised that he would do that because he is untrustworthy.
Huck has proved he is more of an opportunist than a Christian leader, shame about that.
Thanks for your thoughts on those points. I can’t support any of them.
There you go. Good points. I agree with your take on this. I don’t trust the guy either, and I never have.
LOL, not your thoughts, the candidates...
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