What comes to mind and that was really encouraging was he was one of the few Republican senators that voted against the redefinition of marriage.

That actually surprised me.

Yeah.

We had talked about marriage and talked about all this kind of stuff and you know but at the time all of the

Cultural waves were going that way and it you know it was clear that he was

hoping you know that he was in the running to be Trump's VP even back then and

for him to vote against that just really spoke,

spoke a lot to me of like, wow,

I mean, he gets it on this, right?

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in another exercise in taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. And as you know, because you do not live under a rock, it is election season, which means we are constantly

evaluating people. We're talking about people, hopefully in a healthy way, in a productive way, because we have to choose who our leaders are.

And it is our objective and indeed our responsibility to use wisdom and prudence and the best judgment we can in stewardship of the authority that

God has given us to choose the right people.

And what we're trying to do is figure out how do we think about people all of whom inevitably are imperfect who come

with their own strengths and their own weaknesses none of us has a hundred

percent corner on truth because we know in part and we see in part and that's part of what the

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