Believe it or not, only days before the election, millions of Americans, including some KTLW listeners, are still undecided. While we would not presume to tell you for whom you should vote, we would like to suggest what issues should guide your decision-making and which of these issues are most important. Important issues face our nation today:

• the war on terrorism
• improving education for all children
• caring for the poor and for prisoners
• abortion-on-demand
• same-sex "marriage"

Experience tells us that "no candidate is better on all these issues." It also tells us that in the case of issues like education or helping the poor, what separates candidates is often a question of means, not ends. They all agree they're important, but it's a question of how to reach the desired goal.

But the same cannot be said about the sanctity of life and the sanctity of marriage. A candidate is either committed to protecting human life from conception to natural death, or he is not. He is either prepared to defend the traditional family, or he is not. What's more, with these issues, it's easier to look beyond the rhetoric. Their voting records—their records in office—tell us what they think in a way that isn't true about many of these other issues.

We don't presume to tell you for whom to vote but, rather, to encourage you to vote in a way that reflects Biblical values and what we know to be most important.