REAL IMPACT TEXAS VOTER GUIDE
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Our voter guide offers impartial information on candidates running for local races. The candidates were asked to complete a questionnaire and their responses can be viewed here. The voter guide never tells you how to vote; it only posts the candidates' responses to the questionnaire in their own words.
About Real Impact Texas
REAL IMPACT monitors cultural trends and public policy through a biblical lens, focusing on social issues, legislation, and elections.
REAL IMPACT'S mission is to educate, equip, and encourage Christians to be a godly influence in society and culture.
REAL IMPACT achieves this by providing churches with practical, hands-on resources.
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Gina Gleason
Executive Director
gina@realimpact.us
The Godly Wisdom of Sam Houston
…I certainly can see no more impropriety in ministers of the Gospel, in their vocation, memorializing [petitioning] Congress than politicians or other individuals. . . . Because they are ministers of the Gospel, they are not disfranchised of political rights and privileges and . . . they have a right to spread their opinions on the records of the nation. . . . The great Redeemer of the World enjoined duties upon mankind; and there is [also] the moral constitution from which we have derived all the excellent principles of our political Constitution – the great principles upon which our government, morally, socially, and religiously is founded. Then, sir, I do not think there is anything very derogatory to our institutions in the ministers of the Gospel expressing their opinions. They have a right to do it. No man can be a minister without first being a man. He has political rights; he has also the rights of a missionary of the Savior, and he is not disfranchised by his vocation. . . . He has a right to interpose his voice as one of its citizens against the adoption of any measure which he believes will injure the nation. . . . [Ministers] have the right to think it is morally wrong, politically wrong, civilly wrong, and socially wrong. . . . and if they denounce a measure in advance, it is what they have a right to do.
- Sam Houston
