Grudem says it’s not about the candidates’ character; it’s about laws and policy.
So ask yourself: if your argument comes down to abortion and nothing else, are you really voting for laws and policies, or are you just voting for character?
So ask yourself: if your argument comes down to abortion and nothing else, are you really voting for laws and policies, or are you just voting for character?
By now it should be obvious that voting for nominally pro-life candidates isn’t going to change the laws surrounding abortion: it's been over 40 years at this point, and they've done exactly nothing. So it's a vote for character, at best.
At worst, it's ineffectual virtue-signaling and moral cover for supporting iniquitous policies that deprive the poor of their due and forsake God's image-bearers who come to us for refuge from the political chaos wrought by decades of U.S. policy toward Central America.
Grudem says we should vote for laws and policies over character.
So what's he voting for? What actual laws and policies, in the real world--i.e., not the stuff that nominally pro-life politicians have left unfixed for 40 years, like abortion.
So what's he voting for? What actual laws and policies, in the real world--i.e., not the stuff that nominally pro-life politicians have left unfixed for 40 years, like abortion.
Children orphaned by the U.S. Government as an intended consequence of official U.S. immigration policy.
Iniquitous, barbaric policies toward asylum-seekers, in violation of international law and indeed U.S. law itself. Oh yeah, and Scripture, for those who still care.
Iniquitous, barbaric policies toward asylum-seekers, in violation of international law and indeed U.S. law itself. Oh yeah, and Scripture, for those who still care.
Public health policies that present us with a ludicrous false choice between human lives and the stock market—not the real economy, the stock market—and then favor the stock market. Actual policy: stock market over human life. 220,000 dead and counting.
Economic policies which, according to senior White House advisor and all-around wunderkind Jared Kushner, aim to help African Americans “break out of the problems that they’re complaining about,” though “he can’t want them to be successful more than they want to be successful.”
And what else? Setting character aside, what *actual laws and policies*--so, *not* pertaining to abortion--did Grudem vote for?
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