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Open Letter to the Democratic Party
“The world is changed. I feel it in the
water, I feel it in the earth, I smell it in the air. Much that once was is
lost, for none now live who remember it.”
-Lord of the Rings
As a conservative Pastor I would like to make an open appeal to the Democratic Party in light of the 2004 Election Results. In the elections to come please give people like me, who vote first and foremost for leaders based on moral issues, the choice we once had.
Zell Miller is not a crack pot. He is the conscience of your party, calling you back to positions you once held dear and have largely abandoned as your national leadership has moved farther and farther to the left. I had a tinge of sadness the day after the election when I realized that not a single Southern state had gone for the democratic candidate for President- for the second election in a row.
You have not understood how seriously Southern voters take moral issues, and they have rejected your candidates. In 1980 the majority of senators from the South were Democrats. In the year 2004 the majority are now Republicans. This is not because most Southerners wanted to vote Republican, but they felt you had left them with little choice after years of your leadership becoming more liberal.
I don’t write these things because I am a Republican, although by default I usually vote Republican. I say by default, because there is one issue for me and millions of Americans that decides who we vote for on Election Day: the issue of abortion. In any election where there is a Pro-life candidate and a Pro-abortion candidate millions like me will choose the Pro-Life candidate every time. You can keep laughing at people like me; you can keep calling us simplistic; you can keep calling us right wing nuts. You can keep losing. Or you can begin to take the leadership of your party back from your left wing and again make it open to people of all beliefs and convictions.
If you do there is a good chance you can earn my vote in future elections again. I voted in one election where both candidates running were pro-choice- and I voted for the democrat in that election. How I would love to have in upcoming elections the chance to choose between a pro-life republican and a pro-life democrat.
Sometimes we have folks join our Bible believing church who are grieving because they have had to make the difficult decision to leave another church or denomination that no longer is what it once was. They remember preachers who proclaimed Biblical truth because they believed Biblical truth. For years now they have had to listen to preachers who don’t believe in the inerrancy of the Scriptures and are far from the beliefs that characterized the founders of their denomination. And they are rightly upset at starting over again in a new church and new denomination. I usually comfort such folks by letting them know it is not they who have left the denomination, it is the denomination that has left them. Ronald Reagan essentially said the same thing about leaving the Democratic party- he had left it because it had already left him. A good number of the founders of the Democratic Party would not recognize it today.
I believe it is good for America when both parties are a tapestry of America. Please give me a choice in future elections. Stop ostracizing conservatives within the Democratic Party. Work with Republicans to follow through on President Clinton’s unfulfilled promise to decrease the number of abortions in our country. Lead out in defining marriage as between a man and a woman. Curtail unaccountable, activist judges who disrespect our constitution and rewrite our laws from the bench. Or keep losing.
Rev. Danny Campbell <><