No they don’t. The people who choose to nominate someone they know is wrong on the issues are totally to blame for the scenario you present.
Those who vote their conscience are blameless.
You really don’t understand Christianity and Christians do you?
re: You really don’t understand Christianity and Christians do you?
I thought I did, but then I joined FR and found people like yourself who seem to be Super-Christians and, thank God, they are always willing to point out the shortcomings in my faith.
Remember the story of the Good Samaritan? By your standards the traveler would have been perfectly right with God had he simply ignored the injured man and moved on. After all, his principles forbid him from having contact with ‘those people’.
In my arrantly lame version of Christianity I am not only required to do something when I see a problem I am required to what’s right. In my book if my only choice is between one who openly supports abortion and will do anything he or she can to see there are as many abortions performed as possible and someone else who says he or she thinks abortion is wrong and will work as hard as they can to reduce the number performed under his or her watch the God I love, worship and serve expects me, in my humble opinion, to cast my lot with the latter.