Last week, my family, all six of us, slept in an old tent frame cabin up at Red Cliff Bible Camp. We attended a July 4th weekend retreat and had a blast, eating the best food in the intermountain West, gazing at beautiful scenery, and fellowshipping with wonderful Christians. I enjoyed Andrew Garland on the summer camp staff discussing his blog and photography. I rubbed shoulders with preachers and evangelists, Dan Hadick, Ron Van Hee (pastor in Rock Springs, WY), Chuck Crabtree (evangelist), Jay Sprecher (church planter in Thayne, WY), Bob Harris (church planter in Boise, Idaho), Colan Deatherage (pastor in Pocatello, Idaho), Ron Ehmann (director of Northwest Baptist Missions), Steve Pitchford (pastor in Pinedale, WY), and Jason Janz (founder of SI and new church planter in Denver, CO), etc.
I listened to eight Bible messages while at camp. And in the opening service, the night of July 4th, Dr. Bob Jones III shared this before we actually looked into the biblical text for the evening sermon:
“I think Governor Romney is one of our best options. We are not electing a preacher.”
Sure, Bob Jones has lots of reservations. So do I. But out of all the leading candidates for the moment, in my opinion, Romney wins hands down on all the big moral issues raging in our country.
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Here is an altogether different highlight of those days at camp – I watched as my little girl, Hannah Wood, eight years old, back over a high, blustery edge to rappel down a 140 ft. red-rock cliff. This girl has no fear. I think she has less butterflies than my son (who is now eleven) and me.
I’m LDS and there are a lot of reason I definitely will NOT be voting for Mitt Romney as President.
He is willing to continue violation of human rights (wants to double Guantanamo Prison), he is for using torture to extract information from detainees, he is in favor of considering a pre-emptive nuclear strike, and he seems eager to continue working with the current monetary policy instead of much needed reforms on monetary policy.
Please read my article at http://jwharton.com/wordpress about what I call the Dupe of the Christian Right. Hopefully this will add to your insight in who you support in this election.
All the best!
I also just read this.
Thanks for the counterpoint info.
Did you see Romney lose his mind on Jan Mickelson’s radio show? It was hilarious. Romney is such a politician. Jan said the following day on the air that, looking back, he could see how Romney was overreacting to all of his questions so that it would make the news that “conservative Iowa hick attacks Romney for his faith!” Funny.
I went to the Straw Poll yesterday. Romney won, but not by much. Several of the candidates speeches were thoroughly unimpressive. Huckabee was good.
You can watch Romney show his colors at http://www.whoradio.com
lilrabbi, thanks the link. No doubt about it, Romney is a politician.
Our local paper had a write up on his Straw Poll win. I am sure a lot of money was spent for this victory.
[...] for the West is motivating his endorsement. Months before his interview with the Greenville paper, he spoke favorably of Gov. Romney at a Bible Camp near Pinedale, WY: I think Governor Romney is one of our best options. We are not [...]
Mitt Romney is a man of God. A righteous man, but this country will not vote in a righteous leader as they are too wicked.