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Originally posted by xenophobic
Kerry's values message didn't disappear entirely. It morphed into his religious message, which emerged around the same time. "Scripture teaches us it's not enough, my brother, to say that you have faith when there are no deeds. Faith without works is dead," he told the A.M.E. Church convention in July after he picked John Edwards as his running mate. Kerry's attack on Bush was that his professions of faith weren't matched by any "works" to help the poor and sick, or heal racial division. "I am running for president because it's time to turn the words into deeds and faith into action," he said.
While Kerry dropped the word "values," he returned frequently to the Book of James? theme of faith without works. He talked about it at the NAACP convention, at the Congressional Black Caucus convention, and at Baptist churches on Sundays throughout the final weeks of the election. In other words, he confined his most religious message to African-American groups. At the same time, Kerry was reluctant to express anything about his own faith other than his assertion that he used to be an altar boy. His faith seemed either impersonal or absent to most of his regular audiences.
Yep, Kerry would have been much different.
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Not much on reading the scriptures, I did that when I was younger. No doubt Kerry would be different. From the perspective of one in the porn biz the hope is Kerry would have been easier. Make that as long as the polls didn't strongly turn aginst us.
The election and why Bush won is a bit of a complex thing to talk about. We all have our opinions. I suspect that the fact that Kerry was a Senator and acted like one had something to do with it (not a real leader) as a Govenor would be (that is in very gross terms of course).
Kerry did profess to be a Catholic and with that comes a certain set of values one would assume. With his support of the womans right of choice, he didn't exactly gain the support of the Catholic church.
These two facts prolly swayed some votes.