DBU STUDENT SUGGESTS COLLEGE REPUBLICANS SHOULD BE RENAMED

To the DBU Snipe:

Well in your remarks about voting we find these words "DBU College Republicans will be ordering the Texas 2004 Primary Voter's Guide from the Eagle Forum as soon as possible so we have a clue for whom to vote. Thank you, Chad E. Bales." There are two problematic presupositions that I find here. One is that as a Christain we have a right and responsiblity to vote, but that we need to consult the College Republicans and the Eagle Forum, as if the only way to vote as a Christian is for the Republican party. Conslut the Eagles Forum, or the college Republicans then you will know how to vote, this seems problematic at best. This populist uncritical support of the Republican party has been the mindset of evnagelicals for a very long time. Even if you don't go as far as the right wing moral majorty takes the issue, you still seem to be towing that line. Secondly you are voting on behalf of someone who died to give you the right to vote, not on behalf of someone who died so that you could unabandondly support the Republican Party. How are we to know what political party Mr. Bales affliated himself with. I know that you were just challenging people to vote because of the price others have paid so that we can vote, but I think it was a mistake to refer to the College Republicans in the same paragraph, as if that was our only option. On the surface the support of the College Republicans or labeling yourself a Republican seems to be harmless, but can you as a Christain support what they support in its totality. As Christains are alligence is to Christ and not to the Republican Party. If you critically think through the issues, and then find yourself voting for a Republican so be it, but the labeling systems seems to support a populist anti-intellectual mentality. So I think the College Republicans should be named the Politically Engaged Christians.

Signed,

Allegiance to Christ,

Politcally Engaged Christian