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Is It a Sin to Vote for Democrats?
The Peter Heck Show ^ | 10-29-12 | Peter Heck

Posted on 10/29/2012 9:31:19 PM PDT by ReformationFan

With the recent proclamation of a Green Bay bishop that Christians who vote for someone supporting the gay or abortion agenda is putting their soul in jeopardy, there’s been an increase in the amount of email in my inbox asking my take on whether it is a sin for Christians to be Democrats. I think a lot of people assume this is a difficult subject for me to address. I hate to disappoint them, but it’s not.

I recently read an article from a self-proclaimed “Christian Democrat” explaining why they would be voting for Obama, and to a larger degree, supporting the Democrat Party. I am intentionally not linking to the original article for a reason. The article was full of the very kind of “fine-sounding arguments” that Paul warns us in Colossians to be on guard against. Given the sorry state of Biblical Christianity in America, I know that several of these arguments could easily ensnare and trap a lot of confused Christians and I won’t willfully provide a potential stumbling block to any believer.

It should be an axiom for Christ followers that while our faith should inform our politics, our politics should never inform our faith. But this particular author, as is often the case with Christian Democrats, has made an a priori commitment to supporting the Democrats and then seeks to find faith-based reasons to justify it. But here’s the uncomfortable truth such individuals must confront: while it’s certainly true that not every Republican is worthy of our support as Christians, any individual who runs under a platform that justifies the legal slaughter of innocent life made in the image of God is an unacceptable choice. Period.

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To: ReformationFan
Is It a Sin to Vote for Democrats?

Yep.

That was easy.

5.56mm

61 posted on 10/30/2012 8:51:16 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Frumanchu

no doubt. i think i’ll even add a final prayer to check with the Lord before marking the ballot, which is the best argument yet for waiting until election day.

God bless and peace.


62 posted on 10/30/2012 11:08:32 AM PDT by dadfly
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To: ReformationFan

Yes.


63 posted on 10/30/2012 11:13:34 AM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: Salvation

Satan’s minion, Kmiec, still supports its immediate superior, the Kenyan anti-Christ.


64 posted on 10/30/2012 11:22:50 AM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: MarkBsnr

Until there are efforts to distroy facism in order to have freedom.


65 posted on 10/30/2012 9:01:54 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: ReformationFan

Yes, for the following reasons:

1. Support of abortion and killing of children.

2. Support of sexual immorality/homosexuality.

3. Official repudiation of God at their national convention (3 times), caught on nationwide TV.


66 posted on 10/31/2012 1:55:56 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Biggirl
Until there are efforts to distroy facism in order to have freedom.

Unfortunately, the only successful eliminations of Fascism that I am aware of, are as result of a combination of internal decay (decadence) and external pressure (normally war).

67 posted on 10/31/2012 5:22:06 PM PDT by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: MarkBsnr

The most recent having been the “cold war” over in what is now Eastern Europe, distroyed by the efforts of the combination of Reagan, Thatcher, and Blessed John Paul II.


68 posted on 10/31/2012 11:48:12 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: ReformationFan; everyone


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69 posted on 10/31/2012 11:55:20 PM PDT by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: Biggirl
The most recent having been the “cold war” over in what is now Eastern Europe, distroyed by the efforts of the combination of Reagan, Thatcher, and Blessed John Paul II.

Let us not forget Brian Mulroney, who delivered a eulogy for Ronald Reagan (the first that a foreigner had ever given an American President - Margaret Thatcher also delivered one) and who was a serious player in the Cold War effort. He was also awarded the Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Kniaz Yaroslav the Wise - by Ukraine in his efforts to free them from Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Modern day Russia is fascist. So was Hussein's Iraq and Assad's Syria. Arguably, so was apartheid South Africa.

The DNC is a fascist organization, as evidenced by its own web site and its policies and practices. I think that it is a sin to vote for such oppressive and dishonest groups that have little regard for the individual, as shown by their open embrace and willing subsidization of partial birth abortion, where a baby is partially removed from the birth canal and then has his/her head pierced with scissors and its brain sucked out by vacuum. Then it is dissected and sold for medical experimentation.

There is no question in my mind.

70 posted on 11/01/2012 2:48:31 PM PDT by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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