Go out and vote

What Reformation Day can teach We the People about Election Day | Marvin Olasky

"Freedom!" That's what William Wallace cries out at the conclusion of Braveheart. That's what many of us feel like screaming as this sorry election campaign heads toward a final fizzle. Freedom from most Democratic leaders and their pursuit of a tough-on-innocent-unborn-children and soft-on-guilty-terrorists policy. Freedom from Republican leaders who have those priorities in order but are soft on members of their club who act piggishly in regard to pork-barrel expenditures, personal lusts, or both.

The problem, though, comes when other screamers play on our consternation and demand that Christians separate from non-Christians either by forming a purportedly pure "Christian party" or by just staying home and not voting. It's good that Reformation Day, Oct. 31, comes only a few rotations of the earth before Election Day, because an understanding of two crucial changes in Christian history can help us avoid contemporary electoral errors.

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October 28, 2006, Vol. 21, No. 41

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