Sunday, November 2, 2008

Election day

Election day is in a day and a half! With all the stuff I read I sometimes start getting a little worried about how everything will turn out, but I keep remembering general conference last month and so many speakers who basically said, you do what you know is right and no matter what is going on around you, you and your family will be fine. Let's hope so.
I was just reading some articles about the marriage amendments that are up in Arizona and California (and Florida) and again realized how important it is that these pass.

I'm passing out fliers tomorrow, and hoping for the best. It's been a really organized effort coordinated within ward boundaries throughout the state here, and I'm pretty sure the vote no side hasn't had the same level of organization and I know their funding was way less, so I'm hoping that's indicative of the way the people feel. I really liked a video I saw of Elder Bednar in a Q&A session and how he responded to the tolerance question, basically saying that tolerance is not a one way road: we will tolerate others' decisions about how they want to live, but they must also tolerate our beliefs and allowing a small minority to redefine an age-old definition of marriage will affect how we are able to live our beliefs. (If you haven't seen this NPR article, it's worth reading.)

1 comment:

familywithfivekids said...

Thanks for sharing the link to the video with Elder Bednar.