Personal principles should guide ballot choices

Ballots are out and we must choose between deeply flawed candidates. Choose the lesser of evils? While questions of personality/character are important, they never invalidate our responsibility to vote. Everyone must consider his/her personal principles — non-negotiables — against the policy proposals of every candidate. My list of deal-breakers follows.

Abortion on Demand. Life begins at conception — unquestioned. By the time pregnancy is known, differing DNAs declare “it’s my body” only a partial truth. (Most abortions? Not healthcare.)

Supreme Court Appointments. Law is codified morality – someone’s moaltiy. Without adherence to the Constitution, rights can be given and taken by government at its discretion. (The ever-changing whim of majority moral choice becomes law.)

Open Borders. Sovereignty is paramount to any nation’s existence. Forced entry creates NO moral obligation to allow continued presence. (Amnesty assumes such a moral imperative does exist.)

Birthright Citizenship. Being born within the borders of the nation to non-citizen parents — especially those who are here illegally — was never intended to grant automatic citizenship. (So said the framers of the 14th Ammendment.)

Social Engineering through the Military. The sole purpose of the military is defense and safety from outside forces. (Don’t use the military as a backdoor to social engineering of the entire culture.)

Loss of Any Bill of Rights Liberty. Individual rights listed there were not given by government and, therefore, are not to be taken away by government. (The framers of the Constitution argues this point.)

Freedom of Conscience. This is a God-given right — government must keep hands-off. (Government has no claim on what is God-given.)

Support for Israel. The Bible (Genesis 12) declares God has promised to bless anyone blessing Israel and curse anyone cursing Israel. (Nations included.)

Unchecked Wealth Redistribution. Wealth is property. Any decrease in property rights diminishes freedom. Without property rights, no person is free. (No one — except Karl Marx perhaps — has defined “fair share” nor explained why it is reasonable to take wealth just because one has it.)

These will guide my vote even though I bite my tongue. Please, shut out the world, consider your principles, make your list, decide, bite your tongue, then vote.

Don Horner

Cheney