How would Jesus vote? Candidate thinks he knows – Salt Lake Tribune.
Okay, okay, okay. Can we please reel in reality here? Is it just me or does political candidates assuming Jesus Christ would be a supporter of theirs completely nuts.
It’s the same thing with other dead people. “I think Reagan would’ve supported me, at least I hope he would,” was the gist of something Mitt Romney said at a debate, answering the question “Would Ronald Reagan support you?” The only candidate in that debate who gave a good answer was Mike Huckabee, who said “Ronald Reagan isn’t with us anymore, but I would hope he’d support me.”
Bennion Spencer, down in District 3, has no chance of winning this election. When he told the Tribune that he thinks Jesus would vote for him and that he’s publishing a book on how Jesus might vote, he probably just solidified in a lot of voters’ minds that he’s just another crazy Dem.
-Tyler
Oh man…and I caught crap for writing that education policy throughout Utah history was not inconsistent with supporting vouchers. Yikes!
Jason? What’s up with your candidate? He was just joking, wasn’t he?
I just saw the guy on TV and he stepped all around the subject even though he was ask repeatedly.
I think Jesus would vote for just about anybody (He loved everyone). However, he may be a little reluctant voting for someone who writes books on how Jesus would vote. Too judgmental.
On one hand, Bennion has a point. I mean have you seen Chaffetz’s immigration policy? Not exactly new testament stuff there.
On the other hand, I’m confident that Jesus wouldn’t be paying much attention to our political processes, overall. He’d have much better things to do (and that’s hard to admit, being a self diagnosed political junkie myself).
Always best when we can keep religion and politics arms length from each other. A very, very long arm.
Also, it’s important to understand that Bennion was responding to a question asked.
I hope every candidate believes their positions would be supportable by Jesus.
Though Spencer made a political mistake in saying it.
Come on, it’s been well established by the religious right that Jesus is a Republican. Also, he’s too late to write a book. There’s already a book with that exact title, as well as “God’s Politics” and probably a slough of others.
Although Jesus is blond-haired and blue-eyed, he’s not a US citizen, so he gets no vote, unless he goes to a liberal state that doesn’t care about proper identification of voters.
Maybe Jesus called Spencer meantime and told him that he might not vote for him, hence the retraction of “I don’t know if Jesus would vote for me.”
Who is Buddha endorsing in the 3rd Congressional District?
Tom, Buddha is a godless heathen and would probably endorse Osama bin Laden. Don’t you know only Christian votes count?
In later statement to the news Spencer clarified his statement by saying that Jesus would support his positions, like the one on repealing tax cuts to help the poor. I wrote an essay some time ago questioning if Jesus was a communist. I think his statement about using taxation to provide for the poor is a perfect example of misrepresenting Christ’s call for us to be compassionate and provide for the poor. Because taxation is not applied evenly but usually through a progressive system it tends to STEAL from the rich to give to the poor. What God asks of us is to each give willingly, not to force others to give on our behalf. You can read my essay on this subject at at:
http://www.lincolnsblog.com/Articles/Religion/Communist%20Jesus/CommunistJesus.htm