WHERE IS THE TRUTH DURING POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS?
This week the campaign for political offices intensifies. From national to local positions, candidates speak, and distribute information that contains charts, statistics and testimonies. Those of us who are in pastoral positions are blessed to have Democrats, Libertarians and Republicans in our churches. As a historian and a political buff who arrived in this country as a teenager in 1966, and had the opportunity to live in Detroit, in suburbs of Boston and Chicago and now in Atlantic Highlands, I am surprised how truth is in small quantities during the election campaigns. I am also of the belief that every profession is sacred and those who are involved in politics part time or full time have a sacred duty to do their politicking as unto the Lord. In the book of Proverbs 14:34 we read; Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to many people. I have asked myself how often the person making the political advertisement and the political organization which paid for the ad knew
