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This is election season and we've been talking a lot about politics at home. However, I've been hesitant to mention that on my blog.

1) I have few readers :) and...
2) I didn't want to offend anyone.

But, it's too important.

We're a McCain family. College friends - please sit down. This former democrat is now a republican. It only took Scott 4 years. :)

I can't vote for Obama and here's why -

1) He's not a friend of small business. His tax policies would leave my family paying much more than we currently pay - in some areas we'll be taxed at 50%.
2) I don't know if he's a Christian. His religious affliation is murky at best. He's never come out firmly on one side or the other.
3) He's pro-choice. It's been difficult to determine his stance on this, but I recently listened to a speech he gave for the Planned Parenthood association and there was not doubt where he stood. He also voted against legislation that would give babies who survied an abortion procedure a chance for life. As a momma with a little one kicking away at my ribs as I type this - I cannot, will not vote for someone who does not recognize life as starting at conception. It's a deal breaker for me. A nurse who testified before Obama on this issue said this:

• A quote from the article (Obama More Pro-Choice Than Naral 12/26/2006) states that"Jill Stanek, a registered delivery-ward nurse who was the prime mover behind the legislation after she witnessed aborted babies’ being born alive and left to die, testified twice before Obama in support of the Induced Infant Liability Act bills. She also testified before the U.S. Congress in support of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.Stanek told me her testimony “did not faze” Obama.In the second hearing, Stanek said, “I brought pictures in and presented them to the committee of very premature babies from my neonatal resuscitation book from the American Pediatric Association, trying to show them unwanted babies were being cast aside. Babies the same age were being treated if they were wanted!”“And those pictures didn’t faze him [Obama] at all,” she said."

We have a responsibility to participate in this election with eyes wide open and heart attune to what God would have us do. It's not about parties - it's about issues.

The Kenley family is voting for John McCain.

There...I said it.