Thinking about the election today

It's November 4th and all of my feelings find agreements at three sites. Pastor Mark Roberts and his second posting of his series "A Christian Response to the 2008 Presidential Election." But also at Get Religion . Org, Terry Mattingly,'s "Sue me, I’m not in Nirvana today."

James M. Kushiner of Touchstone has posted a link to an article by Ryan T. Anderson & Sherif Girgis at The Witherspoon Institute. The Article "The Pro-Life Case Against Barack Obama . . . and Doug Kmiec," is both about abortion and Obama, but more I think it allows the Church to think about tomorrow. And Kushiner in his introduction to the link also points that direction with two thoughts I find important.

The first, "This debate within the church is not going to go away after the election tomorrow. The principles and issues involved here are quite timely and important to the inner life of the church, across the board." And secondly still thinking of abortion he writes:

"The focal point of the story of mid-19th-century America is slavery, which had political implications, and worse. Whenever blood is shed in great quantity whether legal or not, it cannot, in the long view, remain silent.."