Got my voter registration card

under_believer

My wife hands it to me, just says "do you need to file this?" and that was the end of the conversation.
And so it begins...

Honesty

Got mine in my wallet. Wanna make it easy to ID when I go to the August 2nd Primary.

merfi

Big congrats!! It's one of those steps.

I got mine in April and used it to vote in the primaries last month.

~merfi

Wordly Andre

You know what else is cool, A handgun permit!!! I use to carry mine in my wallet. Going to the range let off a bit of steam AHHHH this is good!

Shooting is one of those things I'd probably enjoy but don't have enough time for right now. I have to content myself with virtual shooting for the time being.
It's so weird to me that my wife didn't have a bigger complaint about this. It really is a big no no. I told her my primary reason was that I wanted to vote in school board decisions, which really resonates with her since we have kids in school. Family is her #1 thing.

Wordly Andre

I enjoy cleaning my shotgun on saturday mornings, especially when I have someone knocking at my door wanting to discuss the end of times. I wonder why they don't want to stay??

Beachbender

Congrats.! that`s a big step I was nervous and had some sort of guilt?! (if you can believe that) when I used mine in my first ever Presidental election. Stupid JW religion

Tristram

I told her my primary reason was that I wanted to vote in school board decisions, which really resonates with her since we have kids in school.

Amen. I always thought that JW's should be able to vote for things like that, tax issues, bond issues, etc. Hell, we should be able to vote period.

under_believer

Yeah the application of "no part of this world" to voting is particularly bizzare when the Society and individual Witnesses are perfectly happy to participate heavily in the judicial branch of most governments. Why is that leg of the government okay to participate in when the executive and legislative branches aren't?
Jesus never had the opportunity to vote; 99.9999% of citizens back then didn't, and Jesus wasn't a citizen anyways. What would he have done if he had been born or had attained to Roman citizenship, like Paul? Paul is portrayed as exercising every right available to him as a Roman citizen. Jesus certainly supported paying taxes, quoting "Pay back Caesar's things to Caesar"... in modern representative democracies, the citizens ARE Caesar, and voting is considered to be a responsibility. One of Caesar's things. The only way to renounce your inherent self-rule in America is to renounce your citizenship. We don't see Witnesses doing that, do we?
The Society has never been populated by civics majors, apparently.

Tristram

How about this...If we vote against something like a local sales tax increase, we can take that money we would have paid in taxes and give it to the society!

Heh heh.

Got my voter registration card

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