A pro life voter who Attempts to justify a vote for Obama is rationalizing.

Your use of levity is very funny. I laughed a little and was impressed by its humor. I thought I should bring a bit of levity to my argument as well. Here goes… How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? 260. One who already wants to change the light bulb, and 259 politicians to make a law forcing him to do it. Which brings me to the very point of my argument. It would appear as if you are making the claim that Republican and Christian are synonymous and a professed Christian is the same as a proven Christian. Laws do not regulate morality. Obama's choices regarding abortion and the like are not hard arguments to win. I've already conceded this point regarding the ethics surrounding abortion. You seem to be attempting to argue the extremity of the issue versus the issue itself. Are late term abortions or abandoned botched abortions somehow better than first or second trimester abortions? Abortion is wrong at any stage period. Therefore to argue what laws Barack Obama passed regarding abortion only signals to tug at an emotional string of those who don't support abortion. Consider my heart strings tugged. However, prochoice advocates like to pull at heart strings also by asserting the necessity of abortion in cases of incest, rape and the threatened life of a young mother. Also, regarding your analogy about rapists being supported is not the merits of my argument. If there was a candidate that "supported" rape and another candidate that supported genocide – hmm let me think about that one. Which one would I vote for? Again, having moral character against genocide is not the same as having overall moral character. You also, have never lived in a country where women are treated like property and for that reason would find yourself in this very scenario where a leader would in fact support rape because it is the society's norm. For the love of all that is holy, there are countries where you can set your wife on fire and it becomes dinner conversation. "So how's life treating you?" "Well, I had to set my wife on fire for burning my breakfast this morning, but other than that – same ol' same ol'." If I had voting rights in those countries, you better believe I'd be exercising that right to vote until all those atrocities are changed. Also, my hope doesn't depend on that country's politics, but rather on my freedom to preach the gospel in that country. Only by the moral change of a man or woman from the inside can these things be changed for good. And only that by the saving power of the gospel of Jesus Christ. This is what is meant by, "we don't wage war as the world does." Here are a few statistics that should be somewhat shocking to us. This is what our laws have accomplished so far against the war on rape related crimes: (http://www.rainn.org...) •1 in 6 women and 1 in 33 men will be a victim of sexual assault in their lifetime. •College age women are 4 times more likely to be sexually assaulted. •In 2007, there were 248,300 victims of sexual assault. •Every 2 minutes, someone in the U.S. is sexually assaulted. •60% of sexual assaults are never reported to the police. •Approximately 73% of rape victims know their assailants. •Only 6% of rapists will ever spend a day in jail. Lastly, you claim I had to choose between the two candidates. This is a false assumption. Obviously I was not forced to vote for either. My assertion was that the voting would undoubtedly come down to these two major candidates. There were several other candidates that you and I voted for alongside the presidential candidates. Did you give as much thought to those candidates as well? Perhaps you did. Regardless, if it came down to a vote for or against Saddam Hussein; guess who I'm voting for? And you see what having no vote or voice leads to.