Don’t Let Election Day Sneak Up on You!

Early voting is going on right now, and Election Day is just seven days away. Don’t let the elections sneak up on you!

Too many people wait until Election Day before trying to figure out who which candidates they will support. Part of casting an informed vote is knowing ahead of time who is running and where they stand on the issues.

We’ve talked a lot about the Arkansas Voter’s Guide this year. To date we have distributed roughly 160,000 printed copies of the guide–and we still have more printed copies available. To order your free, printed Arkansas Voter’s Guide, click here. You can order for yourself, your church, your Sunday school class, your friends, your family–whoever! But don’t wait too long to order, because Election Day is approaching quickly, and supplies are running out.

If you prefer to read the Arkansas Voter’s Guide online, the links below will take you directly to portions of the online guide.

I hope you will take advantage of the Arkansas Voter’s Guide, and I hope you will do your best to vote wisely in the upcoming election.

Federal and State Races

State Senate and House Races

To find candidates for State Senate and State House, click here, and scroll down. You can also click here to search for specific races or candidates.

Some Las Vegas Chapels Declining to Perform Same-Sex Weddings

According to the LA Times, some wedding chapels in Las Vegas are declining to perform same-sex weddings.

Same-sex marriage became legal by default in Nevada earlier this month, when the U.S. Supreme Court opted not to review a lower court’s ruling that struck the state’s marriage laws. Now some wedding chapel owners are declining to marry same-sex couples due to the owners’ religious convictions about marriage.

This is significant, because Nevada has a “public accommodation” law mandating “full and equal enjoyment” of public services regardless of sexual-orientation. Similar laws have been used against florists, bakers, and photographers who have declined to participate in same-sex weddings in other states. Because of this law, some are alleging that it is actually illegal for a wedding chapel owner in Nevada to turn away a same-sex couple.

We have written before about how these types of “nondiscrimination” laws carry unintended consequences. Proponents say the laws are necessary to prevent someone from being fired or denied service at a restaurant due to sexual-orientation. In reality, however, these so-called “nondiscrimination” statutes are used to force people of faith to participate in same-sex weddings, receptions, and similar ceremonies they find objectionable.

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Good News from 40 Days for Life!

A_Cross_of_Candle_Light40 Days for Life is beginning to wind down its second prayer vigil for the year. As we have said before, this is an opportunity for Christians to gather and pray that abortion will end in America.

Today, Shawn Carney–one of the organizers of 40 Days for Life–shared the following story from South Carolina,

“John, a 40 Days for Life volunteer, was praying outside the abortion center when a client stopped to ask him if he was the valet parking attendant. ‘No,’ he said, ‘but I’d like to talk to you before you go in there!’

The woman took him up on his offer and explained that she already had two children and she wasn’t sure she could handle a third. John talked to her, reassured her, and told her about the nearby pregnancy center that could help her with all of her concerns.

The woman went into the abortion center and returned 30 or 40 minutes later, proudly showing John her ultrasound and telling him that she had decided to keep her baby. John sent her on her way with the contact information for the pregnancy center.

All told, 40 Days for Life estimates about 300 babies have been saved from abortion in the past month because of volunteers like John. What a remarkable testimony!

If you would like to be part of 40 Days for Life in Arkansas, there is still time. Click here for details on prayer vigils in Little Rock and Fayetteville.

Photo By Wing-Chi Poon [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons