Would You Vote for a Pro-Abortion Candidate?

A question was posted on ACANETWORK by a blogger that asked should Christians vote for a candidate who supports same-sex marriage and abortion. It was pretty much understood that the candidate in question was Barack Obama. What follows here is my perspective on the issue and my response to some of the various comments that were posted there. If you have not visited the new social network you ought to do so. It was started by Brian Malone and maybe some others. I start with answering the question of who is responsible for the state of affairs in this country as it relates to abortion and same-sex marriages.
When it comes down to who allows these things to happen (legalized abortion and same-sex marriages), ultimately on the human level it’s the people. By putting candidates in office in the legislative bodies of our state and Federal governments and by electing governors who are willing to put forth and pass legislation granting such so-called rights.

Every poll I have seen shows that the majority of the American people oppose gay marriages and for over 197 years the majority were opposed to abortion on demand but the will of the people has been successfully circumvented by judges who legislate from the judicial bench, effectively creating rights where there formally were no rights as defined by the constitution. The role of the judiciary as we all know is to interpret the laws that already exist not to make new law or interpret the constitution or laws in ways that violate the spirit or intent of those that enacted the law (i.e., the founding fathers or the congress). State and federal Supreme Court Judges are appointed for life. They are not elected which means they are not subject to the will or wishes of the people. If a Congressman or Senator or President for that matter proposes or supports legislation that goes against the wishes of the people who elected him or her they can be thrown out of office in the next election cycle unlike Federal Judges and Supreme Court Justices who effectively legislate from the bench and defy the will of the majority.

The reason we cannot pray in the public schools is not because the majority of the American people are opposed to it, it’s because the Supreme Court has said that it violates the Separation of church and state and that the constitution guarantees’ not only the right of freedom of religion but the right of freedom from religion. That is a right, by the way that no one knew existed prior to that decision. What other mysterious rights will some judge or justice discover hidden in the constitution? How about the right of a man to marry another man? What about the right of a man to marry his Doberman Pincher?

Can you give people the right to choose without agreeing with their beliefs? It’s not just about giving people the right to choose its about the moral responsibility that we all have to choose what is right. It’s about being clear about what is right. It’s about using the power at your disposal to influence people to do what is right.
The reason a woman can legally destroy the life of an unborn child in her womb or one which is partially delivered is not because a clear majority of the American people approve of it. It’s because 7 out of 9 Supreme Court Justices discovered that the right to privacy in the U.S. Constitution included the right for a woman to have an abortion and destroy the life of another human being. It’s as if the founding fathers didn’t have the intelligence neither sufficient command of the English language to choose the right words to express what they really meant.

A similar analogy would be like those who suddenly discover that "...singing and making melody in your heart" included the use of mechanical instruments. The man who wrote that inspired directive to the church at Ephesus (the Apostle Paul) obviously did not believe that it did because he never used them himself nor encouraged others to use them in the worship and praise of God. For over 400 years after the church was established members of the church never used them and even to this present day millions of Christian all over the world refuse to use them because the command to sing does not give you the choice or the right to sing and play. But one Pope n the 6th century, A.D. suddenly discovered a right that no one prior to his time had discovered. When the organ was introduced into the worship of the Catholic Church it split that denomination into the two factions that still exist today. One of those factions, the Eastern Orthodox Church still refuses to use the instrument and holds to the ancient tradition of Acapella music.

Who believes that those who wrote the constitution, in their wildest dreams envisioned themselves sanctioning same-sex marriage or in their insistence that the government make no laws to interfere with our freedom of religion really meant that prayer must be kept out of public schools all public places? They had a chaplain and conducted daily prayers at the opening of their deliberations in the most public place of all. To this very day both houses of congress open their proceedings with prayer.

It is true that the President is only one man but no one should be deceived into thinking that one man cannot effect the destiny of millions of people. He is only one man but he is not any ordinary man. People would not give hundreds of millions of dollars to put a man in office if they didn’t think that one man could make a difference in the quality and quantity of their lives. People don’t argue and fight over what they perceive to be insignificant and unimportant issues. The issue of which man will be the one to occupy the white house is a crucial issue Not only in this country but in the entire world. George W. Bush is just one man but who will argue that his impact on this country and on the rest of the world has been insignificant? Abraham Lincoln was just one man, George Washington was just one man, Martin Luther King was just one man but untold millions now experience a much different reality than they would have had these men not appeared upon the stage of human history.

It is a rather curious strategy indeed to vote for a candidate who supports and will not oppose people who are determined to create a world that you find deplorable because you are banking on the dubious notion that he is just one man and therefore cannot tip the scales for good or evil in one direction or the other. If a man does not personally believe in abortion,that is if he believes it is wrong does he not have the responsibility and moral obligation to oppose it? [“…have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but reprove them…” Ephesians 5:11]

We have bought into the false argument that the vote is the only way you can make your voice heard. Actually, given the choices presented to us by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, a vote for either candidate in most cases would be tantamount to silencing the voices of millions of people because neither of the candidates speaks for them or represents their world view. This is especially true for those of us who are committed to the task of seeing to it that God’s will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Every election year as many as 70% of eligible voters do not vote.

We will continue to slide further into darkness until God’s people wake up and realize that the voice that most desperately needs to be heard is the voice of God. That voice cannot be heard with clarity and power if filtered through the apparatus of political machinery which by its nature and design distorts the original signal and mixes in other voices to produce an ear-pleasing sound. The greatest and most tragic failure has not been that of government to hear the voice of God but that of the church and so-called Christians to preach and to practice what God has spoken and what we profess to believe.

Someone has observed that a significant number of the abortion clinics would have to close tomorrow if everyone who called themselves Christians would stop using them or working in them! Half of the liquor stores would go out of business if those who call themselves Christians would stop opening them and/or buying their products. We will have our biggest impact on the world and on the government when we get serious about converting the world not into democrats and Republicans or Independents but into true children of God who will first hear the word of God and then believe it and live it.