Posted on 09/09/2008 12:54:43 PM PDT by mnehring
Alan Keyes, America’s Independent Party nominee for President, has written a commentary for WorldNetDaily which takes a concerned tone towards Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s soul. In reply to commentators he says claim guidance from the Bible, Keyes cites 2 Corinthians 6:14-16 (chastising believers not to be “unequally yoked with unbelievers”) and argues that these same commentators should take note of the spiritual implications of Palin’s place on John McCain’s ticket:
With these words in mind, their first concern should be for their sister in faith, who may be risking her moral and spiritual integrity by placing herself under the authority of someone who has provably abandoned God’s will on the most fundamental moral issues of our times. Perhaps they have not given much thought to the yoke involved in accepting the office of vice president. At the very least, it implies a pledge of personal loyalty to the president with whom you serve, a pledge that means nothing if it does not extend to situations where you disagree with his decisions. What happens when President McCain joins forces with the pro-abortion Democrats to remove restrictions on research that involves destroying embryonic life? If Vice President Palin speaks out publicly in disagreement with the decision, she will violate her pledge of loyalty to the president. She will also risk introducing divisions into the executive branch that are inconsistent with the clear language of the Constitution. If she keeps silent, she risks giving scandal to fellow Christians in the way St. Paul warned against in his first letter to the Corinthians [1 Corinthians 8: 10-12]
Keyes goes on criticize Palin for her record on separation of powers, which does not match his own views on the correct relationship between the branches of government, discussing her veto of an act of the Alaskan Legislature that effectively gave homosexual state employees marriage benefits:
One of her advisers, Kevin Clarkson, claims that she did so on his advice, on the specious grounds that the law would have made permanent the changes ordered by the Alaska Supreme Court. But in Alaska as elsewhere in our republic, the Judicial Branch has no constitutional authority to carry out the laws. The executive power, which is to say the force of law, is entirely vested in the chief executive. Therefore, no regulations issued by the Alaska Supreme Court have the force of law. Where the chief executive and the legislature agree, as they did in this instance, that the judiciary had superseded its legal and constitutional boundaries, the Court’s preferred regulations were a dead letter. However, Gov. Palin’s veto gave credence to the Court’s usurpation.
Keyes sums up this argument suggesting that Palin might make a good fit for McCain after all. The complete article can be read here.
Exactly. Alan just caused some of his supporters to bolt.
He had the chance in the ball room lobby of the Sheraton and this was how the man acted and treated me. Why in the world would I want the chance again to be treated like a sub-human class?
So don’t tell me this person doesn’t exist, I experienced his attitude.
I will give you that I truly believe him to be a great orartor and a very wise/well educated individual, but not someone that I would ever vote for in any elected position.
Gosh, maybe he was preparing for a speech or an interview. He does every one of them without a note or a teleprompter you know. (Maybe the whole world doesn’t revolve around you?)
But, in any case, your description is alien to me, as someone who has seen him interact personally with many tens of thousands of people over the years, and who has never seen him do so with anything but the utmost courtesy and respect, even with those few who were unfriendlies.
Well, wasn’t that cute - “the world doesn’t revolve around you”
I can certainly tell that you believe that Alan “walks on water” and is incapable of ever doing anything wrong.
I am only telling you the experience I had with the man during a conversation. When you are standing in a group of 3 people and you ask several questions during that conversation and the person you are addressing won’t look you in the eye or include you in the conversation, - I’ve been around long enough to know that some men don’t equate women on the same plane as another man, and that’s what happened to me.
Now iffffff, you’ve had the same experience you’d know what I’m talking about, but I doubt that you are of the same sex, and have never experienced this. It happens more than anyone would think even in today’s society.
You’re kind of making my point.
and with that reply you just made mine!!! ha ha ha
Good bye
I agree & like Keyes, too. He wears his faith on his sleeve, often speaking aloud things many conservatives think but are unwilling to pay the consequences of saying. McCain is for embryonic stem cell research, Palin is against it which seems to be Keyes’ main point. He believes she won’t be able to speak out against it, but I don’t suspect he’s right on that.
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