Sean Haugh: Open and Honest Elections from North Carolina

With the Host of the Spiritual Politician
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

Friday, June 30, 2006 4pm PDT

This Week's Show
Our Guest: Sean Haugh

Sean Haugh ran for US Senate in North Carolina as the Libertarian nominee in mm. He has served as Executive Director of the Libertarian Party of NC and on the Libertarian National Committee. He lives in Durham NC with his wife Pam Adams and their family of two dogs and eight cats. Sean's current project is with the NC Open Elections Coalition. http://www.ncopenelections.org/

Open and honest elections are one of the essential components Americans need to be able to set direction for themselves. Cooperative efforts between such seemingly diverse political institutions as Green, Libertarian, Populist, and Reform may be the force that returns control to the people.

What the Show is about and being a Spiritual Politician

Bringing government into alignment with the Lessons of Jesus:

The focus of our show is how to bring government into alignment with truth of our spiritual nature. So

America started with the idea we are all, inherently free. We are free to choose, free to live, to breath, and to live our lives as we see fit. Government does not own us; government is just a contractor, providing service.

That framework is in alignment with the spiritual truth that each of us connects to God directly, needing no agency as an intermediary. To be free is to be free in the spirit ans so in the flesh that temporarily holds the spirit.

When Thomas Jefferson said we were all possessed of inherent rights, existing before government he was extending a spiritual truth into a civic form. It is that Mission Statement from the Declaration of Independence we need to keep in mind.

Because we are free and reject, as did Christ, the use of deceit, manipulation or violence we need to be conscious about our relationships with others and find ways to grow into the sense of connection and community that makes us One in Him.

This is especially true for Christians but it is true for everyone else as well.

Nearly every major spiritual viewpoint enunciates the idea that we are connected to each other and should be good to each other. Christians just have an even more exacting mission. Christians are to love every one, treating them as they would Jesus.

Jesus was very clear about how we were to treat others. He did not say that it was alright to be abusive, deceitful, and violent if we used government as our tool and agent. There was no exception, He wanted all of our hearts, minds and souls. Christ did not lay out any plan of government, but left it to the conscience of the individual, the same way He connects to each of us.

We are Americans but we are also members of a human family that connects us to something truly wonderful and immense.

So our job here at the Spiritual Politician is to look at Government as a human tool we use every day. We need to consider if government is working in a way that speaks that common understanding about our connections to each other and, if it is not, we need to change it.

Americans have had many successes over the last 231 years since our founding and, learning from both mistakes and successes we can consider that question. So here at the Spiritual Politician we look at the truth behind of rhetoric.

Given what is going on today in Government what we may decide to do is reboot the whole system.