DNC Debacle: Florida?s Evangelicals on God and Government

Published By: All Right Magazine on September 6, 2012

By Dr. Richard Swier

Florida has one million Evangelicals who either were not registered or did not vote in the 2008 Presidential election. President Obama won Florida by a margin of 204,577 votes. The question is: Will Floridians of faith stay home or vote in November? Recent events at the DNC may hold the answer to this question. The issue is mentioning God in each parties? platform.

The Republican party?s platform refers to God 12 times. As recently as 2004 God was mentioned in the Democrat party?s platform 4 times.

Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council in an email notes:

Commenting on the absence of God in the Democratic platform, Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan said yesterday, ?I guess you have to ask the Obama administration why they purged all this language from their platform ? I would put the onus of the burden on them to answer why they did all the purges of God.?

Last month, FRC and our allies at the Liberty Institute issued a new report cataloging 640 cases of anti-religious activity in the ?land of the free.? Now, the Democratic platform speaks of ?faith,? but not of Him in whom true faith must be placed. In a nation whose motto is, ?In God We Trust,? this is a sad commentary on the mindset of our present political leadership.

The current crisis at the Democrat National Convention (DNC) may cause Evangelicals to come to the polls on November 6th in large numbers.

The DNC took God and support for Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel out of their party platform. This change was approved by President Obama when he signed the platform. Immediately there after, this change became national news,?drowning?out the DNC message of more government, more social programs and more spending on green energy programs. When this change in the party platform became the narrative an attempt to add God and?Jerusalem?back into the platform was initiated but that led to even more controversy as many DNC delegates booed the change.

Julian Pecquet and Pete Kasperowicz from?The Hill report, ?The additions were approved by a voice vote that seemed to split the crowd evenly and confused Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who was leading the proceedings. Villaraigosa looked around the stage and appeared uncertain over how to proceed after an initial vote, in which the ?nays? to adding Jerusalem and God back into the platform sounded just as loud as the ?ayes.?

?Villaraigosa called for a second vote with similar results. He then called for a third voice vote, and while it sounded evenly split, he proclaimed that two-thirds of the delegates approved the changes, which sparked some grumbling in the audience,? note?Pecquet and Kasperowicz. All of this platform drama at the DNC was captured on video.

VIDEO:?Boos And Multiple Votes, DNC Reverses Position And Reinstates Jerusalem

Perkins notes, ??The same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe?the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.? These words weren?t spoken by Abraham Lincoln or Ronald Reagan, but John Kennedy in his inaugural address.?

Finally, pollster John Zogby found that 51.4 percent of voters back the GOP?s traditional marriage position that the ?ideal family is built around a stable marriage between a man and a woman.? Florida passed a?Constitutional?amendment in 2008?by 61% which defines?marriage as between one man and one woman.

Social issues are looming large in Florida.

Source: http://www.allrightmagazine.com/50states/fl/dnc-debacle-floridas-evangelicals-on-god-and-government-17753/

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