One of the most critical elections in modern history will take place in a few days. It is vital that everyone get out and vote.

Tim Walz has been a total failure as our representative in Congress for southern Minnesota. He says that “he works for us,” but I have yet to see the evidence. I have written to him time after time about bills and issues before Congress and there has never been even one time that he has voted in keeping what I have asked him to do!

Example: He voted against denying Title X funds to Planned Parenthood. He voted for public funding for abortion in Washington, D.C. He voted for the health care bill. He voted against recommitting the Senate health care bill (using Stupak-Pitts language). He voted against Stupak-Pits amendment to prevent taxpayers funding for abortion in health care reform.

He has never voted pro-life even one time during his tenure in Congress. He may talk the talk, but he does not walk the walk. He is good at giving everyone a true “snow job.” He has simply been a “rubber stamp” for Mr. Obama and other liberal leaders in Congress.

Randy Demmer is pro-life and has a 100 percent record as such in the Minnesota Legislature. He is conservative and will listen to the voice of the people. We know that the majority of Minnesota residents are against abortion, same-sex marriage, liberal spending and big government.

We also cannot afford to have Mark Dayton or Tom Horner become our governor. Both of these men are pro-abortion and have openly said that they are in favor of same sex marriage in Minnesota. The Bible condemns abortion and also homosexuality. In Genesis 2:24 God says: “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.” In Leviticus 18:22 it says, “You are not to sleep with a man as with a woman; it is detestable.”

Tom Emmer is the only governor candidate who will stand up against abortion, against same-sex marriage and will help direct our state toward less government.

James Garfield was the 20th president of the U.S. and a member of the Christian Church and he said this about voting: “Now more than ever the people are responsible for the Character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature … If the next centennial does not find us a great nation. … it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.”

If you are a Christian, I challenge you to go to the poles and vote for Christian values as they are revealed in God’s Holy Word.

Allen Burnham

Truman