Wisconsin Family Connection
 Week of September 6, 2010 – #851 
“We’re ‘Pro’ Voters”

“Don’t Tread On Me!” “Cut Spending!” “Don’t put my grandchildren in debt!” There’s been a nationwide call for accountability and responsibility in government over the past 18 months. The continuing recession, stimulus bills, private industry bailouts, housing market failure, “health care reform,” and a myriad of other man-made catastrophes, conspired to fan the flame of liberty that still burns in American hearts.

Now we come to Tuesday, September 14, Wisconsin’s Primary Election—and then the Big One, on Tuesday, November 2,  the General Election. Political pundits describe our mood (that is, the voters’ mood) as anti-incumbent, anti-party, anti-establishment and any number of other “anti’s.”

I submit to you that their assessment is rather shortsighted. As Christians and citizens, you and I are most decidedly “pro.” We know the recent man-made catastrophes are symptomatic of a much larger, deep-seeded problem in our society—the destruction of core Christian values that support life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

So we’re proudly pro-Christian values. We are pro-family, and that means we support candidates and policies that support, promote and strengthen the family unit as an autonomous entity capable of, and responsible for, nurturing and raising the next generation of citizens.

We’re pro-marriage, which mans we support candidates and policies that promote, champion and strengthen the institution of one-man, one-woman marriage, married couples, fathers and mothers; whether it be by marriage statutes, divorce statutes, welfare or tax law, or “legal incidents,” or benefits because marriage is the foundation on which our society stands with the family as the cornerstone of our form of government, society and culture.

We’re pro-life, which means that we support candidates and policies that protect human life from conception to natural death and that hold innocent life to be sacred and worthy of protection under the Constitution.

We are pro-liberty, which means we support candidates and policies that abide by the Constitution, protect individual and corporate liberty, promote individual and corporate responsibility and encourage free market enterprise.

Those are our “pros” and we stand by them. We want our government to be pro-family, pro-marriage, pro-life and pro-liberty—as it ought to be for the good of society. Thanks to our Republican form of government, we can vote for individuals to represent our values in government.

The question is—how to find those individuals among the plethora of candidates we’ll face on our ballots next Tuesday. Wisconsin Family Council has published our election-year Voter Information Publication, which is available on our election-central website: yourwisconsinvote.org, that’s yourwisconsinvote.org.  There, you’ll find a lot of good information on candidates and the election.

On the site we have the Voter Information Publication which contains candidate responses to 12 important policy issues that impact families, marriages, churches and communities. We also have information on voter registration, absentee voting, how to find your polling location, your municipal clerk’s office, candidate contact information, endorsements, etc.

We urge you to visit www.yourwisconsinvote.org and encourage your family, friends, fellow church members and neighbors to do so as well.

When we vote on Tuesday, September 14, we’ll be voting for candidates who will courageously address the policy side of the root problems—the recession of responsibility, liberty and ethics—and not put superficial Band-Aids on the economic recession. We’re looking for a few good men and women who will be accountable to our shared, deeply held values.

This is not an election of outrage and “anti’s”; this is an election of accountability and “pros”—holding candidates accountable to the people and to the pro-Christian values that undergird our society. We stand together for the values—and the country—we hold dear.

For Wisconsin Family Council, this is Julaine Appling, reminding you the Prophet Hosea said, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”