No need to be nasty

Let’s let them—not us—do the excluding | Joel Belz

Labor Day weekend is on us, and with it the more-or-less formal kickoff of the presidential race. But hold on! Hasn't it been our tradition to think of a presidential race starting and ending in the same year? This is Labor Day 2007, and we're talking about the Election of 2008!

Which is, of course, the exaggerated measure of so many things in modern American politics—not the least of which is the level of ugliness you can expect to see, hear, and feel over the next 15 months. Give a gaggle of candidates that much time to talk, and it's all but certain to get ugly.

So if ever there were a place for a Christian worldview to shine through bright and clear, this is it. We don't have to join in such ugliness; there's no need to be nasty.