A rainy Super Tuesdayoutside a local polling place
Super Tuesday in the United States has come and gone. This was the day when 22 states, including my own Illinois, held caucuses or primary elections.
The Presidential candidates all seemed pleased with the collective results.
And judges. Who can possibly know all the judges (or any of them) running for election, and which ones are qualified.
In recent years, state and city bar associations have created websites that rate the judicial candidates as Well qualified, Qualified, or Not qualified.
I was pleased to note in reading the brief comments about the Well qualified judicial candidates, that most were noted for their integrity, and were well respected by their peers.
These sheets can be printed out and taken with you into the voting booth. Choosing the Well qualified and the qualified helps keep good people in the judicial system.
Mary Baker Eddy -- whose life spanned the 19th and 20th centuries -- founded the Christian Science church, several magazines, an international daily newspaper; she was a popular teacher and author.
It's hard for us to realize today that there was a time when American women did not have the right to vote. Eddy passed on nine years before the passage of the 19th amendment granted this right.
Even so, such was her stature that in 1908 the Boston Post asked about her politics.
“Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy has always believed that those who are entitled to vote should do so, and she has also believed that in such matters no one should seek to dictate the acations of others.
In reply to a number of requests for an expression of her political views, she has given out this statement: --
I am asked, ‘What are your politics?’ I have none, in reality, other than to help support a righteous government; to love God supremely, and my neighbor as myself.”
That rather simplifies things, doesn’t it.
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