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Why are Christians voting Republican?

Stephen M. Miller
Woman pictured with Mitt Romney
IN JESUS’ NAME, AMEN. Some Christians are praying the Republicans win the election next week. Others are praying they don’t. Which raises the question, Does God have a dog in the hunt? Photos by Piotr P / flickr (woman); Donkey/Hotey / flickr.

I’M NOT PASSING JUDGMENT.

I’m raising a question that I’m wondering about during this election cycle.

I have a lot of Christian friends and some family members who are voting Republican.

Some are saying it’s because the Republican Party platform better reflects Christian values—an argument that perplexes the heck out of me because I don’t see that at all beyond arguments about abortion and the gay lifestyle, two hot topics that Christians debate.

I got an email yesterday from a friend I deeply respect. It was pitching the Republicans with this line:

“We have better ideas and better candidates. We can disagree with Romney on theology,
but only one set of candidates believe in preserving American & Judeo-Christian values. Those candidates are Mitt Romney & Paul Ryan.”

Most of my friends, however, don’t want to mix religion and politics. They insist that one has nothing to do with the other.

My gut response is, “How convenient.”

When you take that position, you don’t have to defend yourself while voting for a party that wants to beef up the military beyond what even the military is requesting, continue billion-dollar welfare to oil companies, and allow rich people to pay half the tax that their secretaries pay—at the expense of compassionate services like:

  • grants for school lunches for the poor
  • college loans at reduced rates for kids who don’t have rich parents
  • Social Security, which faces cuts or a bumpy ride on Wall Street
  • Medicare, which turns into a voucher system requiring frail souls to go negotiating for a deal, like shopping for a used car (advantage used car dealer)
  • Healthcare for everyone

Nor do you have to defend yourself for supporting heavy-handed government intrusion from the party that complains the government is too intrusive. Sample intrusions, which get about as personal as you can get—sex:

  • A “human life amendment” that bans abortion, with no exception for rape or incest.
  • Prohibition of same-sex marriages, which some Christians treat as a religious matter and others consider a legal matter.

Does arguing that religion should have nothing to do with politics allow Republican Christians to rationalize why they are voting against a Party Platform that seeks to help people in need?

I don’t know that this is true. But I have been wondering about it for the past decade or so.

Maybe there’s another option. Maybe it’s that abortion and homosexuality trump everyone and everything else, including what Jesus said was one of the two greatest commandments: love your neighbor as yourself.

Or maybe my friends are right. Religion has nothing to do with politics. Yet politics has everything to do with people. And people is what Christianity is supposed to be about.

Sorry for all of these election blogs lately. This will be over soon.

Wouldn’t it be nice to get back to the good ol’ days when Republicans and Democrats could pass each other on the street without spitting?

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STEPHEN M. MILLER is an award winning bestselling Christian author of easy-reading books about the Bible and Christianity and author of the Casual English Bible® paraphrase. His books have sold over two million copies and include The Complete Guide to the Bible and Who’s and Where’s Where in the Bible.

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  1. john r

    November 1, 2012 at 11:39 am

    Excellent. I owe a friend for sharing this with me. I’d like to add a thought. Our Constitution guarantees, among other individual rights, freedom of religion and freedom from the imposition of other’s beliefs. That’s why the oath of office for Congress and all military officers is to preserve and defend the Constitution of our Republic, a nation of law, without reservation. The fundamentalists of the so-called religious right don’t care about the Constitution, and some Republicans have forgotten their oaths.

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    • Stephen M. Miller

      November 1, 2012 at 11:57 am

      Thanks for your note.

      Oddly enough, I’ve been getting push-back on various sites from people arguing Constitutional rights on behalf of the Republican approach.

      A sampling:
      –Freedom of exercise of Religion issues – health care contraception, removal of religious expression from public places, etc.

      –Really? I’ll never understand Christians who vote Democrat. Today’s Democrats are very socialist in their views and actions. As a Christian I couldn’t care less about what people do in their bedrooms.

      It boils down to this:

      “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

      Now don’t tell me that is the reflection the Democrats platform.

      Are you going to also write an article about “Why are Christians voting Democrat” as well or is it just about your point of view?

      Reply

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