Are Christians Wrong to be “Single-Issue” Voters?
Crossposted at Truth and Reason
On several occasions, I’ve been berated by fellow Christians for seemingly voting on a single issue, namely abortion. But in recent years, same-sex marriage has become 1b. The recent, “Evangelical Manifesto,” a concoction of the religious left, made drastic pleas that Christians not allow these two issues to define our cultural identity. World Magazine Founder, Joel Belz offers a compelling defense why Christians should not apologize for voting on a single issue, but take an even stronger stand today.
Evangelicals shouldn’t be embarrassed to say boldly and clearly: Abortion and same-sex marriage are uniquely heinous sins. They rattle the foundations of a civilized society. They take a culture in a dreadful direction. We haven’t been wrong to say so. We aren’t fanatics.
And I’m not referring here so much to the young women caught in the anguish of an unexpected pregnancy or folks bewildered by their sexual identity. I’m talking mostly about a society that goes all out to tell such people that what they’re doing is just fine. There’s forgiveness for individual sinners. There’s judgment for societies that lead them astray.
Society is trying its best to exert its tolerance for child-killing and homosexuals on Americans utilizing every arena from schools, businesses, and courts to the media, Hollywood, and advertising. The religious left would not argue that Christians are on the wrong side of these issues. And while Christians have not been as zealous on the environment, poverty, and healthcare, at least we are facing the right direction. Belz notes the key difference:
What evangelical do you know who says insensitivity to the poor should be promoted? What evangelical leader is calling for more racism? Who advocates the uncontrolled plundering of the environment?
That is exactly the kind of cheerleading that is going on for abortion and same-sex marriage. .
But here’s the core of the matter. To be robustly and consistently anti-abortion is at the very same time to cast your vote for environmental sensitivity, against racism, and for economic justice. These are not independent, isolated packages.
It’s hard to see how anyone can claim to be a protector of the environment and not put a high priority on the preservation of human babies. To defend a focus on the future of polar bears and whales, while asking evangelicals to get less noisy about infant humans, is an embarrassing contradiction.
Similarly, keep in mind that abortion is one of the most racist of all social causes in history. Minorities don’t just happen incidentally to be targeted by the practice of abortion. The history of Planned Parenthood and similar organizations is racist to the core—as is their current practice.
And no economist can look at the loss of 50 million American babies over the last 45 years and not wince at the impact of such a drain on the economic vitality of our society. Today’s poor Americans are poorer than they would have been if we’d taken care to preserve enough consumers—and workers—to fill a state one-and-a-half times as big as California. Tomorrow’s elderly will worry about Social Security more than they would have with 50 million more contributors to the system.
The religious left would do well to recognize who the real “single issue” voter is here: the liberal non-Christian who believes tolerance for special rights somehow won’t upset the social balance God created and instilled in the heart of every man. Today’s young Christians have been asked to buy a lie that their elder Christians were too narrow-minded and single-issue focused. I, for one, will not buy that lie and urge my fellow young believers to not apologize for being a single-issue voter either.
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Posted by Truth and Reason on July 25, 2008 11:56 am
» Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, Abortion, Elections, Homosexual Agenda, Multiculturalism/PC, News, Secular Humanism, Socialism
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Amen to that.
I am sick and tired of people wanting us to “get loose” on some “minor issues” while they don’t ever get loose on anything.
But it really doesn’t matter what Christians say. What really matters is what the Creator says. Christians come and go, but God’s Word abideth forever.
Good post. I wish there were more like you here in Portugal. I say this bkz I have a black friend in our church who would vote for Obama, had he be american. This after I told him about Obama’s defense of baby killing, homosexual marriage, and Obama’s denial of John 14:6.
Thanks, Mats. Yeah, there is no biblical justification for a Christian voting for Obama simply based on his justification for supporting child-killing.
God is the same yesterday,today and
forever. Knowing this then consider
Cain who denied it but God said
that his brothers blood was crying
out to him from the ground and
God drove him from that ground.We
in America have more than 50million
murdered babies blood crying out to
God and we too will be driven out
of the ground we call America. we
cannot stop the coming destruction
we can only delay by repenting.The
churches in America,led by Pastors
who gave up their liberty and
freedom in 1954 stayed in their
churches and let it happen.For the
full story on this go to my web
site and learn the reason behind
their silence while evil men and
seduces wax worse and worse.
http://www.johnnorrisbook.com