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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Falwell Confidential
[mailto:webmaster-reply@falwell.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, October 10, 2008
6:39 PM<BR><B>To:</B> fc@list.falwell.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Voting for
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<P class=MsoNormal><A name=OLE_LINK1></A><A name=OLE_LINK2><B>FALWELL
CONFIDENTIAL<o:p></o:p></B></A></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Insider weekly newsletter to The Moral Majority Coalition and
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<P class=MsoNormal>The Liberty Alliance <A
href="http://www.falwell.com">http://www.falwell.com</A> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>From: Jonathan Falwell<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Date: October 10, 2008<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><o:p> </o:p></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B>Voting for Life<BR><BR></B><o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I believe that when Christians step into the voting booth
they should know exactly how the candidates stand on the issues, particularly on
life issues. The foundational question that conservative Christians must
continue to ask is: How does a candidate stand on abortion?<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>In America, the issue of life has been at the forefront of
governmental concern since the drafting of t<STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">he Declaration of Independence in 1776: “We hold
these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”</SPAN></STRONG><o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>From this great document we see that government bears a
responsibility to protect life.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>With this in mind, I believe a candidate who does not seek to
protect the most innocent and vulnerable forms of life does not fit the bill of
the type of person we, as Christians, desire for public office. (It’s
pretty easy for politicians to favor “choice” when the ones most affected by
their policies can never become a voting bloc.)<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>A few weeks ago, my friend Rick Warren hosted a civil forum
with Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain at the Saddleback
Community Church in Lake Forest, Calif. (I would suggest that
readers—especially those who are undecided voters—visit this <A
href="http://links.mkt1031.com/servlet/MailView?ms=MTc2MjgxS0&r=NjM0ODU2MjkwS0&j=NjMxMTQxNgS2&mt=1&rt=0">website</A>
to watch the answers of both men regarding important questions on life/abortion
and several other topics.)<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I’m sure many people wonder why Christians place such an
emphasis on life. The answer is largely contained in God’s Word. In
this column, I have previously referred to biblical passages (including Psalm
139:13-16 and Jeremiah 1:5) that show God seeing the unborn child as a valuable
human life to whom He ministers. Notice also in Job 3:16 that the writer
speaks of “infants who never saw light,” referencing unborn babies. The
writer does not call these babies fetuses or unborn entities within the
womb. They are described as “infants.”<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>There are many other reasons we oppose abortion. For
one, some studies indicate that women undergoing abortion experience emotional
trauma following the procedure.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>And it appears that Americans are starting to realize that
abortion bears consequences.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">An Elliot Institute-commissioned poll last
February reveals that “approximately 85 percent of American adults believe
negative emotional problems after an abortion are common to very common.
Over 60% of those identifying themselves as very pro-choice also believe
post-abortion emotional problems are common to very common.” The poll also
found this: “Only 15 percent of those polled believed that abortion generally
makes women’s lives better. Over half believe it generally makes women’s
lives worse.”<o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">In addition to women experiencing long-lasting
emotional scars from abortion, studies have shown a direct link between abortion
and breast cancer. (See this site: <A
href="http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/"><SPAN
style="COLOR: windowtext">http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com</SPAN></A>)<o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">It is apparent that abortion is not only
permanently bad for its unborn victims; it is bad for women.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Nevertheless, lurking in the U.S. Congress is a
bill known as the “Freedom of Choice Act” (FOCA, S. 1173) which reads: “To
protect, consistent with <I>Roe v. Wade</I>, a woman’s freedom to choose to bear
a child or terminate a pregnancy, and for other purposes.” The National
Organization for Women says the bill would “sweep away hundreds of anti-abortion
laws [and] policies.” (To read the bill, <A
href="http://thomas.loc.gov/beta/billView.jsp?&k2dockey=/prd/k2/bills/xml/110/s1173.is.xml@billmerge&numHits=1&currDoc=1¤tPage=1&110%3Cin%3Econgress%29&congress=110">click
here</A>)<o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the
National Right to Life Committee, in an article titled “Unholy Messaging,”
recently wrote, “I am aware of only one congressional sponsor of the ‘Freedom of
Choice Act’ who has said anything publicly, in the past year or so, to indicate
that he would like to see the bill enacted soon. That sponsor is the
Democratic nominee for president of the United States, Sen. Barack
Obama.”<o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Mr. Johnson noted that Sen. Obama, in a speech to
the Planned Parenthood Action Fund on July 17, 2007, stated, “The first thing
I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That’s the first
thing that I’d do.”<o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">That’s certainly the senator’s prerogative.
But it is apparent that such an agenda is out of line with the pro-life
perspective of conservative Christians.<o:p></o:p></P>
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