Evangelicals for Mitt reaches out to those longing for a home.
Nancy French includes a letter penned by her husband, David. Currently, he is in Iraq. David French is tremendously intelligent and thoughtful.
Here are a few paragraphs:
Here are a few paragraphs:
Mitt Romney knows that a President must run an entire country across a full spectrum of issues. When he was governor, it is not as if the emergence of the same sex marriage issue suddenly meant that he didn’t have to deal with a fiscal crisis, didn’t have to deal with the Big Dig collapse, and didn’t have to achieve a creative solution to a looming health care battle with an overwhelmingly Democratic legislature.
Yet Governor Romney balanced a budget, managed a crisis in one of he most complex and expensive construction projects in history, and crafted a health care plan that – while not ideal – contains innovative reforms rightly applauded by many conservatives. But here’s the critical thing: he managed to do all this at the same time that he vigorously resisted the same-sex marriage decision (up to and including suing the legislature in a successful effort to force them to vote on a state marriage amendment), resisted legislative efforts to dramatically expand stem cell research, fought for Catholic Charities’ right to religious freedom, and vetoed legislation that would have expanded access to the “morning-after” abortion pill. These are not small things.
To be honest (and I say this as a Christian conservative activist), one of the bad side effects of the otherwise good growth of Christian political and cultural activism is the tendency to see the world through activists’ eyes. The activist rightly sees “their” issues as important, but since they so often make a living advancing “their” issue, it is easy to lose perspective.
From where I sit in the Diyala River Valley, listening to the thunder of (thankfully outgoing) artillery, looking at news reports of a sinking stock market, and worrying about all the religious liberty litigation I left at home, I want a president who is good at dealing with all those things -- a person of deep moral conviction who wants to lead an entire nation, a master of the art of the possible, and a man of real personal integrity.
I have not chosen to dedicate my professional life to defending life and religious liberty, only to throw that away by supporting a man who does not share my values. I have not laid my entire future on the line in Iraq, only to throw that sacrifice away by supporting a man who would yield to Jihadist terror. Since my wife and I started Evangelicals for Mitt, we have gotten to know the Romneys and their sons. They are people worth supporting.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the French family. Thanks, David, for your insights.
We need to reach out to Fred and Huck fans in the appropriate manner. David did so today.
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