Instructive guides to informed voting

by: Richard Land - Oct 22, 2008 - comment

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Ever since my election as president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission in 1988, the commission has published a party platform comparison guide to assist Southern Baptists and other people of faith as they seek to decide for whom to cast their ballots in the presidential election.

This Party Platform Comparison Resource (4.3 MB PDF) has been one of our most popular resources among rank-and-file church members. Thousands of copies have been distributed or downloaded during the presidential elections over the past 20 years.

Instead of trying to analyze the two major parties’ positions, the ERLC just prints the Democrats’ and Republicans’ own statements or positions on the various issues within our purview as the moral concerns and public policy entity of Southern Baptists. Then people can decide for themselves, after comparing the two party platforms side by side, which one more accurately reflects their values.

One thing people who read the platforms of each party (4.3 MB PDF) cannot say is, “I cannot tell any difference between the parties.”

The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission works to educate Americans about the importance of voting, among many other moral and social issues we face in today’s society. If you would like to help us continue these efforts, please click here.

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