Why I voted Yes

In Minnesota, there was an amendment that would have allowed only traditional marriages.  Why I voted for this amendment is because simply my pastor told me too.  Now, I thought about it for a while and was at a cross roads.  It came down to should I follow others that aren't Christians or should I listen to my pastor who is a Christian and not only that he is also my leader.  So, I did vote for the amendment not because of what I personally thought of, because I thought it was stupid to have an amendment on this issue to the Minnesota Constitution.  Originally I planed to vote No, but I had to vote Yes because it was an authority issue for me, because my pastor urged the congregation to vote Yes on the amendment.  I do however disagree with my pastor's decision on the matter in regards to have government involvement in the first place.  The simplest answer to my political views is that Government should be privatized all except the courts and the police, which I will post this on another topic.  That is why I disagreed with my pastor's decision on the matter of the amendment but voted yes because it was an authority issue for me.

360 of Politics

I took an unexpected reason of why I left politics but since then my good time friend who I debate about politics a lot said something to the effect that Christians should be in politics because of nations like North Korea.  God has given the people to decide our leaders.  In the past espically in Europe, the Kings and Queens made all of the important decisions of the nation, now God had let us decide our next leader would be.  That puts every citizen's responsibility to really look at what is going on in politics whether or not they want to or not.  So in effect the United States has about 300+million kings and queens that elect people to rule on their behalf.  Now I'm saying that in this country it is important that every person who is able to vote should vote.  This makes the average citizen more important than other types of governments.  In regards to my personal take on politics I did a 360 in politics meaning, politics is important, to politics is stupid and Jesus is the answer, and politics is imporant and Jesus is the answer.  So, now after the elections I'm getting back into politics.  I did vote because I was on the fence whether I should vote or not.  I was on the fence of voting due to this book that I read called Myth of a Christian Nation by Gregory Boyd.  He made some good points in regards of the Church should be more involved in the community.  But he is looking at the view point of that the church is in politics too much and that they are missing the point in what it means to be the hands and feet of Jesus.  This might be true for a lot of people who follow Jesus but in general those who follow Jesus needs that lives in this type of government needs to do their civic duty.  I didn't do my civic duty in regards to trying to the lower level offices in government because I was largly on the fence.  My pre-resolution for 2013 is at least go to two of the city government meetings.