Goals
- Encourage civil and reasoned discourse about the issues of our day.
- Encourage voters to make policy and how policy impacts the lives of people their primary interest. It is a travesty to reduce our vote to a personality contest, most especially when we live in an era when it is so easy to twist or fabricate a personality. The most trustworthy statement on the character of a politician is the policy he or she works to advance.
- To be thankful for the consideration for others shown by those who voted based on how policy impacts people, near and far.
- To consider who or what shapes our view of the character of a candidate and if the sources we use are trustworthy or biased sources in regard to that candidate?
- To help the Christian consider how to vote in light of what Jesus claimed were the greatest commandments: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is, Love your neighbor as yourself.” – Mark 12:30-31
- To help those who have entirely or greatly limited their sources of information to anti-Trump sources to begin to consider other points of view and truly think about the good they can do and the harm they can prevent with their vote.