After visiting Columbus, Ohio for the baptism of our grandson, Geert Willem Fischer, I have decided to vote for the Republican ticket. Do I love the candidates? Not particularly. Do I hate Mr. Obama? Not particularly. Frankly, I think both tickets are greatly flawed. In the end, however, I will vote my conscience, and my Christian, Calvinistic, mid-western, middle class, female conscience says that I will vote for the candidates and party platform which most closely aligns with my Biblical beliefs and ethical worldview.
So what does baptism have to do with elections? Just this, that a baby is infinitely precious to his family and to God. The thought that the Democratic party supports abortion as a policy is repugnant to me. Mr. Obama himself assents to abortion and even to allow the destruction of a child who survives abortion because, he says, it is the law of the land. That only makes sense to the mind of a Harvard lawyer who has no personal ethic, who cannot think morally, and who is so politically centered, that he cannot rise above the "law" to think about the ethic and moral implications of the law. There is civil law and there are moral laws and they often conflict.
Will he have the vision and courage to distinguish between the two?
I can't understand why some voters, especially Christians, can bypass this issue. I have been told that I shouldn't be a "one-issue" voter" as though one issue couldn't mean that much. I resent people looking down their erudite noses at me as though I am too ignorant to think logically, or too old to have wisdom, or too emotional to make the best objective decision. If I told you that Mr. Obama favors limiting the number of dogs born in America by strangling them or crushing their heads before they are born, then cutting them up into pieces before they are removed from the mother, most people would be so disgusted that they would dismiss him as a candidate without discussion. But this is exactly what he supports, not of dogs but of infants--children!
Strip all of life down to its essentials and you will find that there is no real value in money, or houses, or bank accounts (literally!), in position, in politics, in the media, in opinion, in power, etc.
The only essential that has value for now and eternity is God and his Word and our relationship to both, especially within the family dynamic. If you believe God's Word to be true and have absolute value, you will want to follow God's laws and promote it, even when or if it differs from the civil law under which you may live. This may be a difficult position; you may be mocked; you may be ostracized; you may suffer. But that's what we do; we suffer. Whether for good or evil, we suffer. I would prefer to suffer for good, wouldn't you?
Obviously, this is an issue much larger than the abortion issue alone.
You may be saying, you can't expect your politicians to have the same values as you have. You are right. But that doesn't mean I have to vote for them. I will vote for the party and the platform that comes closest to Biblical precepts that guide my life. Will they be perfect candidates? Heavens, NO. Are you perfect? Am I perfect? But I know that our country is at a moral crossroads, and this is no time to forget our Christian principles and vote for the wrong person for the wrong reason.
Geert Willem is a precious child. I teach precious children every day. No one has the right to allow, and certainly not to promote the killing of precious children like them. No one.
