Many Christians find themselves lost this election cycle because they find that neither major party presidential candidate holds completely to what they view as perfect Biblical values. However, they miss an important point. No presidential candidate ever has nor ever will. We are reminded numerous times in Scripture, that “there is none righteous, no not one” (Psalms 14, Ecclesiastes 7, Romans 3:12). The only perfect Being to walk the face of the earth was Jesus, and until He returns to rule on earth, we should do as Pope Francis recently told American Catholics to do “vote for the lesser of the two evils.” That may be putting it a bit crudely, since I would not necessarily call both candidates “evil” per se, but certainly, neither one is what most of us would call a devout, deeply religious Christian, either, although President Trump’s near assassination seems to have brought him much closer to God.
So, Christians, your job is to look at where each candidate stands on vital Biblical issues and then to vote for the one who most closely approaches God’s Truths. Why? Because Jesus taught us to pray “Thy will be done one earth as it is in heaven” and if we pray that prayer, it is imperative that as Christians we do everything that is in our power to see that God’s will IS done on earth as it is in heaven! And we do that by voting for the one who will follow His Will most closely! Not to do so or not to vote at all is a sin of omission! “ Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.” James 4:17
THE TAKING OF INNOCENT LIFE: ABORTION
God’s truth: An unborn baby is a living human soul, precious in His sight. To abort that child is to stop a human heart: to murder. Murder is a sin.
Jeremiah 1:5. “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you;”
Isaiah 49:1. “Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from afar. The Lord called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name”.
Galatians 1:15 “But when he who had set me apart before I was born,[d] and who called me by his grace. . . .”
Exodus 20:13. “You shall not murder.”
Democrat view: Democrats had a planned parenthood mobile van outside their national convention this summer where they passed out abortion pills.
Harris’ Policy: Kamala Harris made the news recently when two young men at one of her rally’s shouted “Jesus is Lord!” Her immediate response as the men were ushered out to the sound of applause was, “Oh, I think you guys are at the wrong rally. I think you meant to go to the smaller one down the street.” The unthinking answer on the heels of her snub of the traditional Catholic charity fundraiser Al Smith dinner paints a clear picture of Harris’ view of Christianity. In addition, in an interview on Face the Nation, she was asked if she would support religious exemptions for medical workers and organizations when it came to abortions. Her answer: No.
“I believe that we should put the protections of Rov V. Wade into law, and the way that will happen is if we have a United States Congress, who regardless of their personal view for themselves or their family, would agree that the women of America should be trusted to make decision about their life and their body based on what they know to be in their best interest. It’s that simple.”
Thus, under a Harris presidency,
- pro-lifers will continue to be arrested and sent to prison for praying outside of abortion clinics while criminals are released onto our streets,
- abortions will be paid for by insurance companies until the moment of birth,
- Christian medical personnel will be forced to perform abortions against their religious beliefs or lose their jobs,
- and religious-run medical facilities will be forced to perform abortions or close their doors.
Republican view: The Republican platform says “the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which cannot be infringed,” but Republican views vary from wanting a total ban to wanting limited abortion access. 78% of Republicans, however, think abortion should be illegal in most or all cases.
Trump’s policy: Donald Trump is personally pro-life, but he supports allowing exceptions for abortion in the case of incest, rape, and to save the mother’s life. He also supports IVF. Because we live in a federalist form of government where those issues not governed by the Constitution are relegated to the individual states, the Supreme Court ruled that the question of abortion was one that should be decided by each state. President Trump abides by the decision of the Supreme Court. However, he also supports the Constitution and will protect the freedom of religion so that even in the 21 states in which abortion is legal, Christians will not be forced to participate in abortions against their beliefs under a Trump administration
SECURE BORDERS
God’s truth: Nations have clear borders because He chose it to be so.
Deuteronomy 32:8. “When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when He divided mankind, He fixed the borders of the peoples.”
Acts 17:26. “And He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place.”
Psalm 147:13-14. “For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your children within you. He makes peace in your borders; he fills you with the finest of the wheat. “
Jeremiah 31:17. “Your children will return to their own territory “
Exodus 23:31-33. “I will establish your borders…do not make a covenant with them or with their gods. Do not let them live in your land or they will cause you to sin against me because the worship of their gods will certainly be a snare to you”
Democrats view: The more the merrier. Let them all in. 51.4 million illegal aliens have entered the U.S. since the Biden/HARRIS administration took office
Harris’ policy: It’s all Trump’s fault. Never mind the fact that WE ended Trump’s stay in Mexico policy; never mind the fact that WE stopped the wall that Trump was building and left the material to rust on the ground; never mind the fact that we have been flying hundreds of thousands of people from Venezuela, Haiti, and Cuba into 43 different cities around the U.S. Never mind the fact that President Biden put me in charge of the border and that I have repeatedly said that the border was secure, the border is not secure and hasn’t been for decades and this is something we need to understand. It is a tragedy when Americans are raped and murdered by immigrants, but gangs are not a problem even though they have taken over apartment complexes in several cities and are terrorizing folks in Time Square. We just need to give citizenship to all of these people who have broken our laws to come here, because we are a country of immigrants and the fact that many of them are criminals and we don’t know who they are is of no consequence. In the meantime, support them with front-loaded debit cards, free housing, free college, free health care and jobs, provided by you, the American hard-working taxpayer.
Republican view: Secure the borders and only welcome immigrants who enter legally and are of benefit to our country.
Trump’s policy: Mass deportation of illegals beginning with all gang members and criminals. Finish the wall. Close both borders. Catch and deport instead of catch and release. There is a reason that he has been endorsed by the Border Patrol!
TRANSGENDER/ TRANSGENDERS IN WOMEN’S SPACES
God’s Law: God created human beings, male and female. What He created cannot be changed by man any more than the men of Babel were able to build a tower up to heaven. Man’s hubris will always end as the Greek myth of Icarus, with man over-reaching and falling to his metaphorical death.
Democrat view: Gender is fluid. Parents “guess” at a child’s gender at birth , but that child as it grows will “feel” its true gender and if it doesn’t match the child’s physical attributes, i.e. if the child looks like a boy but feels he is a girl, then the parents, doctors, the government and society as a whole must abide by that child’s feelings and use hormones and non-reversible surgery to remove and create the appropriate body parts as far as is possible. To then NOT refer to that child by his/her/their chosen pronouns is now rude and hurtful. Some individuals identify as animals and are known as “furries.” They are also treated with respect. Transgender women are the same as biological women and should be treated as such. Teaching gender to kids in schools, having drag queen story hours, putting books with explicit sex in school libraries is okay because teachers can help students process what they will pick up anyway.
Harris policy: Transgender women are the same as biological women and girls and must be treated equally, sharing the same bathrooms, dressing rooms, and even the same prisons and prison cells. They must also be allowed to participate on girls’ and women’s sports teams. Schools and universities who do not abide by these rules should lose federal and state funding. Under her presidency, the untenable practice of women not only losing their hard-fought rights to equal participation in sports, but often losinavg their health as well through permanent injuries caused by biological men posing as woming en on women’s teams. A recent UN report fount that over 900 medals world-wide have been taken from women by biological men purporting to be women. In every case these men were mediocre performers against men in their sport and only excelled once they “transitioned.”
Republican view: Men are men and women are women. Men who believe they are women have no business in women’ restrooms, dressing rooms, or sports. The majority of Republicans believe that biological sex and gender are identical, assigned at conception, and unchangeable because they are determined by DNA . Parents should determine what is appropriate reading for their children.
Trump’s Pollicy:
“We will
- Ban schools from promoting Critical Race Theory and transgender insanity
- Defeat the toxic poison of gender ideology and reaffirm that God created two genders: MALE AND FEMALE
- Keep MEN out of WOMEN’S sports
- Sign a law banning child sexual mutilation in ALL 50 states
- PROUDLY say “MERRY CHRISTMAS” again”
ISRAEL
God’s Truth: Israel was God’s chosen people. It was through them that Jesus came and to them that the Gospel was first preached. He has not forgotten His people, though they largely denied Jesus, thus allowing we gentiles to join God’s family. God still has his hand on Israel. Though dispersed, many of them returned to Israel at the end of WWII. Attacked by Arab nations in two different wars almost immediately, they won them both against overwhelming odds. . .except . . .GOD. Now, they fight again, seemingly against the world, but with subtle and secret help from some Arab nations. God’s promise to Abraham as recorded in Genesis 12:3 “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
Democrats View: Placating Arab Americans and keeping Iran happy is more important than maintaining a good relationship with Israel. Little was done to secure the safety of Jewish students on college campuses as pro-Hamas mobs harassed them.
Harris Policy: She needs the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas vote badly, yet doesn’t want to drive away the reliably Democrat liberal vote, so she is trying to play both sides right now. However, her leftist side leans strongly to supporting the poor Palestinians against those mean Israelis! A Harris presidency won’t support Israel ince she was part of releasing lots of money to Iran as part of the Biden administration.
Republican view: They recognize Israel as our ally and vow to support her. College campuses will be made safe and pro-terrorist activists will be deported.
Trump Policy: He has always been a friend to Israel. He froze Iran’s assets. He moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, thus recognizing it as Israel’s capital. He is the only U.S. president to pray at the wailing wall. His daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren are Jewish, and he brokered the Abraham Peace Accords. He will see that the U.S. stands with Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, and he will deport pro-Hamas adjitators.
CONNUNDRUM!
But what if all of your life you have been a loyal Democrat? How can you turn your back on your party? I would remind you of two facts. First of all, as Robert F Kennedy, Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk and many other high-profile, long-time Democrats have recently realized, the Democrat Party has left most Americans behind. The Party of the working class, the average American, of minority groups as well as of the middle class is now the Republican Party, the Party of Reagan and Lincoln, the Party that was formed to stop slavery and that fought the Civil War to rid the country of that scourge.
And secondly, you, as a Christian, are not of this world! Yes, you have to live in it, but you are first and foremost a citizen of the Kingdom of God. An old gospel hymn from the early 1900s goes:
“This world is not my home
I’m just a-passing through
My treasures are laid up
Somewhere beyond the blue
The angels beckon me
From heaven’s open door
And I can’t feel at home
In this world anymore.”
Thus, your loyalty should not be to any political Party, but to the Kingdom of God and to His laws. So, examine what each of the candidates stands for and vote for the one whose platform, whose behavior, whose words, whose actions, whose policies most align with Biblical precepts.
So do you vote for:
Harris who is more passionate about killing unborn babies than about protecting or even recognizing your First amendment right to practice your religious beliefs, who mocks Christians one day and panders to them the next, who cares more for illegals then for American victims of a hurricane if most of them are Republicans, who is in favor of every crazy fad if it supplies another group of “victims” that need to be protected from conservative Christians, who panders to the Jew-hating, terrorist-loving wing of the Democrat Party and will turn on Israel in a minute if it is politically expedient?
Or for
Trump who supports the entire Constitution, is pro choice, believes God saved him from an assassin’s bullet, is supportive of Christians and Jews, puts America and Americans first always, believes God created male and female and that can’t be changed, will protect children from those who would push crazy sex and race ideas on them, and will support Israel?
If you are an honest Christian, your choice is clear! Do not be like the Pharisees to whom Jesus said in Matthew 15:8 An open letter to all Christians:
Many Christians find themselves lost this election cycle because they find that neither major party presidential candidate holds completely to what they view as perfect Biblical values. However, they miss an important point. No presidential candidate ever has nor ever will. We are reminded numerous times in Scripture, that “there is none righteous, no not one” (Psalms 14, Ecclesiastes 7, Romans 3:12). The only perfect Being to walk the face of the earth was Jesus, and until He returns to rule on earth, we should do as Pope Francis recently told American Catholics to do “vote for the lesser of the two evils.” That may be putting it a bit crudely, since I would not necessarily call both candidates “evil” per se, but certainly, neither one is what most of us would call a devout, deeply religious Christian, either, although President Trump’s near assassination seems to have brought him much closer to God.
So, Christians, your job is to look at where each candidate stands on vital Biblical issues and then to vote for the one who most closely approaches God’s Truths. Why? Because Jesus taught us to pray “Thy will be done one earth as it is in heaven” and if we pray that prayer, it is imperative that as Christians we do everything that is in our power to see that God’s will IS done on earth as it is in heaven! And we do that by voting for the one who will follow His Will most closely! Not to do so or not to vote at all is a sin of omission! “ Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.” James 4:17
THE TAKING OF INNOCENT LIFE: ABORTION
God’s truth: An unborn baby is a living human soul, precious in His sight. To abort that child is to stop a human heart: to murder. Murder is a sin.
Jeremiah 1:5. “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you;”
Isaiah 49:1. “Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from afar. The Lord called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name”.
Galatians 1:15 “But when he who had set me apart before I was born,[d] and who called me by his grace. . . .”
Exodus 20:13. “You shall not murder.”
Democrat view: Democrats had a planned parenthood mobile van outside their national convention this summer where they passed out abortion pills.
Harris’ Policy: Kamala Harris made the news recently when two young men at one of her rally’s shouted “Jesus is Lord!” Her immediate response as the men were ushered out to the sound of applause was, “Oh, I think you guys are at the wrong rally. I think you meant to go to the smaller one down the street.” The unthinking answer on the heels of her snub of the traditional Catholic charity fundraiser Al Smith dinner paints a clear picture of Harris’ view of Christianity. In addition, in an interview on Face the Nation, she was asked if she would support religious exemptions for medical workers and organizations when it came to abortions. Her answer: No.
“I believe that we should put the protections of Rov V. Wade into law, and the way that will happen is if we have a United States Congress, who regardless of their personal view for themselves or their family, would agree that the women of America should be trusted to make decision about their life and their body based on what they know to be in their best interest. It’s that simple.”
Thus, under a Harris presidency,
- pro-lifers will continue to be arrested and sent to prison for praying outside of abortion clinics while criminals are released onto our streets,
- abortions will be paid for by insurance companies until the moment of birth,
- Christian medical personnel will be forced to perform abortions against their religious beliefs or lose their jobs,
- and religious-run medical facilities will be forced to perform abortions or close their doors.
Republican view: The Republican platform says “the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which cannot be infringed,” but Republican views vary from wanting a total ban to wanting limited abortion access. 78% of Republicans, however, think abortion should be illegal in most or all cases.
Trump’s policy: Donald Trump is personally pro-life, but he supports allowing exceptions for abortion in the case of incest, rape, and to save the mother’s life. He also supports IVF. Because we live in a federalist form of government where those issues not governed by the Constitution are relegated to the individual states, the Supreme Court ruled that the question of abortion was one that should be decided by each state. President Trump abides by the decision of the Supreme Court. However, he also supports the Constitution and will protect the freedom of religion so that even in the 21 states in which abortion is legal, Christians will not be forced to participate in abortions against their beliefs under a Trump administration
SECURE BORDERS
God’s truth: Nations have clear borders because He chose it to be so.
Deuteronomy 32:8. “When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when He divided mankind, He fixed the borders of the peoples.”
Acts 17:26. “And He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place.”
Psalm 147:13-14. “For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your children within you. He makes peace in your borders; he fills you with the finest of the wheat. “
Jeremiah 31:17. “Your children will return to their own territory “
Exodus 23:31-33. “I will establish your borders…do not make a covenant with them or with their gods. Do not let them live in your land or they will cause you to sin against me because the worship of their gods will certainly be a snare to you”
Democrats view: The more the merrier. Let them all in. 51.4 million illegal aliens have entered the U.S. since the Biden/HARRIS administration took office
Harris’ policy: It’s all Trump’s fault. Never mind the fact that WE ended Trump’s stay in Mexico policy; never mind the fact that WE stopped the wall that Trump was building and left the material to rust on the ground; never mind the fact that we have been flying hundreds of thousands of people from Venezuela, Haiti, and Cuba into 43 different cities around the U.S. Never mind the fact that President Biden put me in charge of the border and that I have repeatedly said that the border was secure, the border is not secure and hasn’t been for decades and this is something we need to understand. It is a tragedy when Americans are raped and murdered by immigrants, but gangs are not a problem even though they have taken over apartment complexes in several cities and are terrorizing folks in Time Square. We just need to give citizenship to all of these people who have broken our laws to come here, because we are a country of immigrants and the fact that many of them are criminals and we don’t know who they are is of no consequence. In the meantime, support them with front-loaded debit cards, free housing, free college, free health care and jobs, provided by you, the American hard-working taxpayer.
Republican view: Secure the borders and only welcome immigrants who enter legally and are of benefit to our country.
Trump’s policy: Mass deportation of illegals beginning with all gang members and criminals. Finish the wall. Close both borders. Catch and deport instead of catch and release. There is a reason that he has been endorsed by the Border Patrol!
TRANSGENDER/ TRANSGENDERS IN WOMEN’S SPACES
God’s Law: God created human beings, male and female. What He created cannot be changed by man any more than the men of Babel were able to build a tower up to heaven. Man’s hubris will always end as the Greek myth of Icarus, with man over-reaching and falling to his metaphorical death.
Democrat view: Gender is fluid. Parents “guess” at a child’s gender at birth , but that child as it grows will “feel” its true gender and if it doesn’t match the child’s physical attributes, i.e. if the child looks like a boy but feels he is a girl, then the parents, doctors, the government and society as a whole must abide by that child’s feelings and use hormones and non-reversible surgery to remove and create the appropriate body parts as far as is possible. To then NOT refer to that child by his/her/their chosen pronouns is now rude and hurtful. Some individuals identify as animals and are known as “furries.” They are also treated with respect. Transgender women are the same as biological women and should be treated as such. Teaching gender to kids in schools, having drag queen story hours, putting books with explicit sex in school libraries is okay because teachers can help students process what they will pick up anyway.
Harris policy: Transgender women are the same as biological women and girls and must be treated equally, sharing the same bathrooms, dressing rooms, and even the same prisons and prison cells. They must also be allowed to participate on girls’ and women’s sports teams. Schools and universities who do not abide by these rules should lose federal and state funding. Under her presidency, the untenable practice of women not only losing their hard-fought rights to equal participation in sports, but often losinavg their health as well through permanent injuries caused by biological men posing as woming en on women’s teams. A recent UN report fount that over 900 medals world-wide have been taken from women by biological men purporting to be women. In every case these men were mediocre performers against men in their sport and only excelled once they “transitioned.”
Republican view: Men are men and women are women. Men who believe they are women have no business in women’ restrooms, dressing rooms, or sports. The majority of Republicans believe that biological sex and gender are identical, assigned at conception, and unchangeable because they are determined by DNA . Parents should determine what is appropriate reading for their children.
Trump’s Pollicy:
“We will
- Ban schools from promoting Critical Race Theory and transgender insanity
- Defeat the toxic poison of gender ideology and reaffirm that God created two genders: MALE AND FEMALE
- Keep MEN out of WOMEN’S sports
- Sign a law banning child sexual mutilation in ALL 50 states
- PROUDLY say “MERRY CHRISTMAS” again”
ISRAEL
God’s Truth: Israel was God’s chosen people. It was through them that Jesus came and to them that the Gospel was first preached. He has not forgotten His people, though they largely denied Jesus, thus allowing we gentiles to join God’s family. God still has his hand on Israel. Though dispersed, many of them returned to Israel at the end of WWII. Attacked by Arab nations in two different wars almost immediately, they won them both against overwhelming odds. . .except . . .GOD. Now, they fight again, seemingly against the world, but with subtle and secret help from some Arab nations. God’s promise to Abraham as recorded in Genesis 12:3 “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
Democrats View: Placating Arab Americans and keeping Iran happy is more important than maintaining a good relationship with Israel. Little was done to secure the safety of Jewish students on college campuses as pro-Hamas mobs harassed them.
Harris Policy: She needs the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas vote badly, yet doesn’t want to drive away the reliably Democrat liberal vote, so she is trying to play both sides right now. However, her leftist side leans strongly to supporting the poor Palestinians against those mean Israelis! A Harris presidency won’t support Israel ince she was part of releasing lots of money to Iran as part of the Biden administration.
Republican view: They recognize Israel as our ally and vow to support her. College campuses will be made safe and pro-terrorist activists will be deported.
Trump Policy: He has always been a friend to Israel. He froze Iran’s assets. He moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, thus recognizing it as Israel’s capital. He is the only U.S. president to pray at the wailing wall. His daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren are Jewish, and he brokered the Abraham Peace Accords. He will see that the U.S. stands with Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, and he will deport pro-Hamas adjitators.
CONNUNDRUM!
But what if all of your life you have been a loyal Democrat? How can you turn your back on your party? I would remind you of two facts. First of all, as Robert F Kennedy, Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk and many other high-profile, long-time Democrats have recently realized, the Democrat Party has left most Americans behind. The Party of the working class, the average American, of minority groups as well as of the middle class is now the Republican Party, the Party of Reagan and Lincoln, the Party that was formed to stop slavery and that fought the Civil War to rid the country of that scourge.
And secondly, you, as a Christian, are not of this world! Yes, you have to live in it, but you are first and foremost a citizen of the Kingdom of God. An old gospel hymn from the early 1900s goes:
“This world is not my home
I’m just a-passing through
My treasures are laid up
Somewhere beyond the blue
The angels beckon me
From heaven’s open door
And I can’t feel at home
In this world anymore.”
Thus, your loyalty should not be to any political Party, but to the Kingdom of God and to His laws. So, examine what each of the candidates stands for and vote for the one whose platform, whose behavior, whose words, whose actions, whose policies most align with Biblical precepts.
So do you vote for:
Harris who is more passionate about killing unborn babies than about protecting or even recognizing your First amendment right to practice your religious beliefs, who mocks Christians one day and panders to them the next, who cares more for illegals then for Americans victims of a hurricane if most of them are Republicans, who is in favor of every crazy fad if it supplies another group of “victims” that need to be protected from conservative Christians, who panders to the Jew-hating, terrorist-loving wing of the Democrat Party and will turn on Israel in a minute if it is politically expedient?
Or for
Trump who supports the entire Constitution, is pro choice, believes God saved him from an assassin’s bullet, is supportive of Christians and Jews, puts America and Americans first always, believes God created male and female and that can’t be changed, will protect children from those who would push crazy sex and race ideas on them, and will support Israel?
If you are an honest Christian, your choice is clear! Do not be like the Pharisees of whom Jesus said in Matthew 15:8 “These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.”