Now, I know many Christians in Congress — honest, decent people — who don’t engage in unethical deal-making. But anybody who does ought to be retired by the voters. The first question we ought to ask any congressmen coming home to campaign is: “Do you trade your vote for earmarks, or do you vote your conscience?”
Christians need to persuade their neighbors to demand Congress to abandon the “what’s in it for me?” approach in favor of “What is good for all?”
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David D. Kirkpatrick, “Trading Votes for Pork across the House Aisle,” New York Times, 2 October 2006.
BreakPoint Commentary No. 060327, “Ethics? Who Needs Ethics?: Why We Need the Line-Item Veto.”
BreakPoint Commentary No. 060501, “Empty Monuments to Human Ego: The Scandal of Congressional ‘Earmarking’.”
BreakPoint Commentary No. 060726, “For the Common Good: Making the Future SAFE for Posterity.”
Read The Federalist No. 10.
Chuck Colson
Chuck Colson was the Chief Counsel for Richard Nixon and served time in prison for Watergate-related charges. In 1976, Colson founded Prison Fellowship Ministries, which, in collaboration with churches of all confessions and denominations, has become the world's largest outreach to prisoners, ex-prisoners, crime victims, and their families.
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