christians played major part in putting trump into office
10 Nov 2016
It seemed so many were once again blindsided by the Trump win, but not everyone was taken unawares. Christians spent time looking at both candidates stance on moral and social issues. It is true that both the US and the UK are more divided than ever and we believe that it's the constant demand for equality and tolerance for liberal ideology from many minority groups against what Christians and those who hold Christian values, maintain as truth, that is a root cause. Christians make up almost 60% of the population in the UK and 83% in the US, Many people know that there is something very seriously wrong in our nation when our MPs vote for same sex marriage, gender abortion and assisted dying as though they were voting for a new tax law or as in the case of Richmond Park, against a third runway. Christians are finding that their conscience just won't allow them to ignore the candidates voting record any longer. See www.election2015.org.uk for your representatives voting record.
It is not just Brexit that has exposed how out of kilter our representatives are with the people they ought to be representing. In the US 81 percent of white evangelical Christians still voted for Trump, as did the majority of people who attend religious services once a week or more. (Catholics were slightly more divided than born-again protestants, but 60 percent still went for Trump.) Little was discussed in the media about how faith groups would vote.
It is not just Brexit that has exposed how out of kilter our representatives are with the people they ought to be representing. In the US 81 percent of white evangelical Christians still voted for Trump, as did the majority of people who attend religious services once a week or more. (Catholics were slightly more divided than born-again protestants, but 60 percent still went for Trump.) Little was discussed in the media about how faith groups would vote.
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Trump’s embrace by these groups might signal the importance of abortion for example —an issue on which at least a fifth of Americans say they will not compromise when voting. In 2015, 21 percent of Americans said they would only vote for a candidate who shared their abortion views, up from 13 percent in 2008. Vice-President-elect Mike Pence’s abortion stance is well known: As governor of Indiana, he signed one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation.
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t seems, though, that pro-life voters might have been persuaded by some of Trump’s other comments in the final debate. He said he’d like to see the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade and for abortion rights to be left up to the states. Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, said, “I strongly support Roe v. Wade.
Mark Harrington, who led a pro-life get-out-the-vote initiative across Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida last month, said in an emailed statement. “Today, preborn babies got a reprieve" and those who are pro-abortion know it. Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/11/why-women-and-christians-backed-trump/507176/.
What of other moral and social matters - freedom of conscience and speech, traditional marriage, and compassionate care for the disabled, those with mental and physical illnesses and the elderly ? All of these Christian values have been under attack both in the UK and US. Not only are Christians being vilified for their traditional views but now they are being sued for holding them and trying to encourage others to act responsibly. In the Ashers bakery support gay marriage case in NI costing the tax payer £86,000, they tried to force them to pay the bill and now Aisling Hubert in England was left with a £46,000 legal bill for trying to bring to justice two doctors who were offering gender abortions. Even if the voting public can't articulate what is wrong, they know that something is. If they don't see the voting records of our MPs, they still feel ill at ease. As Christians we are well able to articulate the truth of the matter and we have a standard by which to measure our representatives. Let's hope the voting public will realise the power their yield when they cast their vote on 1 December just like the 380 million people who had a chance to exercise their democratic right to vote this year on such an enormous scale. The people of Richmond Park too can tell the political elite in the shape of Zac Goldsmith that they are no longer happy with these standards and they deserve better. Vote for Dominic Stockford on 1st December who will not compromise our foundational moral and social values. Let's hope too than an emboldened British public start to support what is right not popular, that we too can be great again, as one nation under God.
References:
To see our 2015 Declaration of British Values to which many subscribed in the General Election last year, see here.
To see the Declaration chaired by Professor Lord Alton and presented to Her Majesty the Queen and David Cameron, Prime Minister on 27th January 2015.
Mark Harrington, who led a pro-life get-out-the-vote initiative across Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida last month, said in an emailed statement. “Today, preborn babies got a reprieve" and those who are pro-abortion know it. Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/11/why-women-and-christians-backed-trump/507176/.
What of other moral and social matters - freedom of conscience and speech, traditional marriage, and compassionate care for the disabled, those with mental and physical illnesses and the elderly ? All of these Christian values have been under attack both in the UK and US. Not only are Christians being vilified for their traditional views but now they are being sued for holding them and trying to encourage others to act responsibly. In the Ashers bakery support gay marriage case in NI costing the tax payer £86,000, they tried to force them to pay the bill and now Aisling Hubert in England was left with a £46,000 legal bill for trying to bring to justice two doctors who were offering gender abortions. Even if the voting public can't articulate what is wrong, they know that something is. If they don't see the voting records of our MPs, they still feel ill at ease. As Christians we are well able to articulate the truth of the matter and we have a standard by which to measure our representatives. Let's hope the voting public will realise the power their yield when they cast their vote on 1 December just like the 380 million people who had a chance to exercise their democratic right to vote this year on such an enormous scale. The people of Richmond Park too can tell the political elite in the shape of Zac Goldsmith that they are no longer happy with these standards and they deserve better. Vote for Dominic Stockford on 1st December who will not compromise our foundational moral and social values. Let's hope too than an emboldened British public start to support what is right not popular, that we too can be great again, as one nation under God.
References:
To see our 2015 Declaration of British Values to which many subscribed in the General Election last year, see here.
To see the Declaration chaired by Professor Lord Alton and presented to Her Majesty the Queen and David Cameron, Prime Minister on 27th January 2015.