Before the election, one of our fellow staff families received a letter from a long-term supporter that decided to stop their support because this couple's support of Obama.
Here is the response from that couple to the supporter.
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Dear XXXXXXXX,
Thank you for your support over the past XX years. We appreciate all that you have done for us, and others as I know your heart to help those in need. It’s evident as I walk into your office and see world vision sponsorship, the trips you do with habitat and your strong involvement at your church. You live out your faith and I respect and admire you for that.
In saying that I hope that you would know us as well as we are like minded in most ways. Never in all our days as Christians have we supported abortion. We know as strongly as you that the Bible teaches that each unborn baby is known by God and is made in His image. Abortion is murder and is one of the many abominations we have allowed to happen in our country.
I know you and XXXXXXXX are birth parents and I can’t imagine all that you two had to go through during that time. As you know we are adoptive parents to kids that could have been aborted if the adoption plan wasn’t there. XXXXXX started the only teen mops in all of
This is not the first time we have been the recipients of anger from fellow believers over a political stance. Usually it has been strong Christian Democrats who think it is unconscionable for us to have voted for Bush. (Interesting how 90% of Christians in urban areas are democrat and 90% of Christians in the suburbs are Republican) The accusation from the left side is “as a Christian and missionary how can you support McCain and Palin when they blatantly and firmly neglect the needs of the poor?” Funding has been cut to our school. Our few hospitals are being closed. Our youth can’t afford college or get the loans they need to get there. Children who were brought across the border illegally and raised here can’t get a job, health insurance, can’t get a higher education, can’t buy a home, and can’t survive if they go back to the country their parents came from because there is nothing for them but violence. Our Emergency food and shelter money has been cut federally and by the state to zero. LA is the hungriest city in the country and we feed 150,000 per month out of our warehouse. What am I going to tell people come January when the money is stopped and people are hungry? Skid row is full of homeless who were put there because republicans passed a bill that didn’t fund mental institutions and they were dumped on the street. These people are just as valuable to God as the unborn child. Unfortunately, there is not a candidate who addresses the needs of both.
McCain is not addressing these issues or at least not well. Obama is and most democrats usually do. This is one of the main reasons people of color and the urban poor vote to the left.
There are just as many issues in the McCain camp that are an abomination to God as there are in Obama’s.
Politics has never been the solution for our world. We do not put our trust or faith in the new president. Our faith as is yours is in Jesus. The only hope for change is when Christians work together across social, economic, and racial barriers to further His Kingdom.
Millions of Christians are voting for McCain just as Millions of Christians are voting for Obama. We hope they are not putting their hope in them. We hope they are voting for the man whom they think will bring the most good for our country.
Neither of us like Obama’s support of roe vs wade and neither of us like McCain’s apathy to the needs of the poor, both are an abomination. So we pray for wisdom as I know you do.
So no matter how we vote we get judged and assumptions are made as to what we value. I hope you won’t be one of them.
Your support to us is not nearly as important as our relationship. We understand if you feel you can no longer support us, but don’t let it be because you think we support the murder of unborn children. We vehemently do not.
