Poll results

I put this poll up initially on an impulse( like a lot of the things I do) and it was after watching the Saddleback  Faith Forum as well as the Larry King Live interview with pastor Rick Warren who hosted the forum between Senators Barrack Obama and John McCain. After about 10 minutes from posting this poll I wanted to take it down because I realized how silly it seemed and especially how silly it could seem without an explanation to it, but I decided to leave it up there because I realized that it could be a great visual for what I am about to write about. The Evangelical vote is always highly coveted as of the past few elections and quite a large voting block that is heavily targeted. Over the past several elections cycles there have been several hot button issues that have decided who to vote for if you are a Christian. And yes we all know these as abortion, gay rights and war. Over the past few election cycles if you were a self proclaimed Christian then you had to vote for someone who held the same values on these issues as you and the evangelical base as if these were the only moral issues at stake. Other moral issues such as the environment(creation), poverty,non-violence, healthcare etc. haven't been considered important enough to God apparently and decidedly so by the evangelical leaders. So up to this point we have the conservative right evangelicals backing republican base issues of pro-life and anti gay rights and war and we have the liberal secularist and evangelicals backing democratic base issues of poverty healthcare and the environment. 

    Lets jump forward a little to the faith forum. I was really excited about this. I had read a lot about Rick Warren as the ascribed new leader of the modern evangelicals who cared about more historically liberal issues such as poverty and the environment. During the interview with Larry King he said that there were a lot of questions that he wanted to get to that covered these more historically liberal issues but didn't have time to, but he definitely had time to ask questions about abortion rights and gay rights. And it was at this point that I decided to throw the poll up on this blog, because I wanted to see how people viewed the message of Jesus Christ. I wanted to see if that view of Jesus's message correlated into the evangelical base's main issues of importance. And the results show quite the opposite. If the people who voted on my pole vote according to their view this upcoming November then it should be clear who they vote for, at least its clear to me. If those 7 who took this poll are a small sample of the evangelical voters then I have hope for this upcoming election. I sincerely hope and pray that followers of Jesus Christ see the message of Jesus as the 7 of you who took this poll do. Jesus never spoke of abortion or homosexuality directly, Jesus spoke of the Kingdom of God at hand, he taught us to take care of the least of these, he taught us time and time again to take care of the poor and the oppressed, he told us to turn the other cheek, he told peter to put down his sword. Jesus didn't say that because we were attacked we must defeat evil by attacking back. Jesus taught and lived Non-Violence as a means to resist evil! 

this is my prayer