Presidential Election 2016

I intensely disliked the entire election journey process this year.  

Our options were terrible, but one party offered a glimmer of hope, and that party was the Republican party.  

In the aftermath of the election those trying to make sense of why Hillary didn't win never expressed my view once.  I voted for Supreme Court Justices, and it was definitely selfish.  I don't want to go to jail for being a Christian and expressing Biblical values in a country that was founded on the freedom to worship as we choose.  

Let me explain....  With the monumental rise in inappropriately placed political correctness that borders on the ridiculous, people who are loving and kind to individuals but refuse to make their wedding cake or their bridal bouquet because of their Biblically-based values are being systematically prosecuted for their stance, with their decision not to defile their values called a hate crime or a civil rights violation.  

It is a person's right to be whatever they want to be, but it is equally  my right to be whom I want to be, and if their "right" is not congruent with mine, then it is prudent we agree to disagree without any recrimination.  Are feelings sometimes hurt?  Undoubtedly!  But if it is not intentional hurt - - going out of one's way to be malicious or unkind - - each person's rights and views need to be honored.  

A case in point was the bakery who very kindly declined baking a wedding cake for the wedding of a gay couple.  They graciously suggested another establishment who didn't have an issue with the clients' choice and were completely open to having them as customers for any other purpose than that one.  It hurt the 2 ladies' feelings to the tune of over $135,000.00 in court-ordered compensation.  That's wrong.  

We are not always going to agree with each other.  These 2 women should have respected the establishment's wishes and gone their merry way.  If someone didn't want to bake my cake, I wouldn't want a cake from them.  Now had the bakers been rude or unkind, that might warrant the ladies' getting all their friends to refuse to do business with the establishment - - but that was not the case.  They were polite and kind, and gently clear about why they could not participate in their nuptial event.  

The punishment the bakery owners received was unwarranted.  I don't want that to be the America we live in.  I want Supreme Court Justices who will uphold the law, not reinvent it.  I want Justices who uphold the Constitution of the United States and that all men are created equal - - even the people who call sin sin.  

Trump's election gives me a few more years of hope that we can be a better country.  

America is an experiment in freedom.  America was founded on Biblical values and Biblical principles with the freedom to worship as we please.  At that point the only religious persuasion was Christian - - and the reason America has worked is because of the Biblical values we have chosen to adhere to.  If we choose not to be self-disciplined and choose to abandon our values, this will become a nation of lawlessness....and our demise.  But that's a topic for another day....  

Do I like Trump?  No!  But I prefer him to Hillary.  The Supreme Court Justices she would have promoted would have destroyed this country's core values.  So - - I voted for Supreme Court Justices.  I voted for a sliver of hope.  I voted for Mike Pence...and Trump just happened to be part of the package.