On Sept 12, a minister from Chapel Hill wrote to indicate her support of the Democrats because she generally agrees with that party's approach to social programs and, she added, it is because she is a Christian that she wrote.

It appears that she, as a Christian, is confused as to what government should refrain from doing and what it should enthusiastically do.

The Religion of Socialism, not Christianity, calls for massive central government to take care of the needy. The Bible, by contrast, emphasizes local people caring for local people: neighbors caring for neighbors, families caring for individuals and local houses of worship ministering to the needs of the poor. Big-government socialistic policies, favored by the Democratic Party, destroy individual initiative and the family structure, while creating a culture of generational government dependence and entitlement.

The government should, first of all, protect the innocent. And who could be more innocent than a baby who has miraculously survived the holocaust of abortion? Barack Obama has repeatedly voted to see that these helpless infants are left to die.

We were founded on the notion that government should secure the individual's right to pursue life, liberty and happiness. Victims of infanticide have had that right terminally abridged.

Gordon Bolin

Raleigh

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