CFT Media Statement - 3 November 2004

US ELECTIONS – VICTORY FOR THE FAMILY

The USA election results prove that pro-family issues are of enormous importance to voters. Candidates could not hide their views on the issues that mattered to the electorate.

Consider the following pro-family results on 3 November 2004:

·        There was a resounding coast to coast rejection of gay marriage. 11 states have successfully voted to amending their constitutions to ban Massachusetts-style gay marriage, by overwhelming margins — from a high of 86 percent in Mississippi to 59 percent in Michigan. Even in Oregon, the measure passed by 56 percent — a clear majority.

·        In Oklahoma, former Republican Congressman Tom Coburn, one of the most pro-family of lawmakers, and South Carolina Congressman Jim DeMint will go to Capitol Hill as members of the Senate.

·        In Louisiana, David Vitter is a proven pro-family leader who has taken on the gambling industry, the abortion industry and will be the first Republican Senator in Louisiana since Reconstruction (after the Civil War.)"

·        A pro-life president has the opportunity to make one to three appointments to the US Supreme Court in the next 4 years, the same court which legalized abortion in 1973 with “Roe vs Wade”. Pro-abortionists fear that Bush appointees may reverse the ’73 decision.

Today’s results sends a strong moral message to the whole world. The family does matter! Politicians who vote for abortion, gay marriage, pornography etc, must be ousted.

`Christians for Truth’ in South Africa (representing 104,000 members) will continue to conscientise voters; encouraging South Africans to vote according Biblical family values.