Every election, Republicans tell us what the left will do if it wins, and what they believe in is scary. Then I am expected to vote Republican. The party points to one thing I really oppose and gets me to go along with half a dozen other things I would never support. Then, when I ask a question why Republicans are implementing policies against my values, somebody wants to know why I’m helping the Democrats.
Well, I am asking a question about what The Republican Party is doing. Can we get back to that?
Ask a Republican what the party has done for the Christians who put them into office. They have done nothing, because "they don't have the votes" or " procedure keeps them from implementing change" or "the courts" won't let them. Then ask about aid to Israel and suddenly Congress can find the money, and the aid can’t wait. Then my money goes to fund free health care, college and spending cash for every citizen in Israel.
Which brings up another question, when did backing Israel become part of being a Christian? If I am a Christian, that makes me the real Israel, not that country with its antithetical values, who hates my savior, and indulges ion genocide with bombs supplied by my tax dollars.
Say a Republican promises to keep a sex-ed lesson out of the third grade. Good. Now ask whether he’d teach the same lesson in sixth grade. It is still filth in in 6th grade. Trump is okay with trans kids with parental permission. So now, parents can castrate children? This is not what I voted for!
Or suppose a Republican wants to give Washington more power to track Americans. He says the program will catch criminals. Fine. Would you hand that same power to the Democrats? Because someday the Democrats will get the keys, and the program will still be there.
This is how a party can change what Christians will accept without us ever realizing it. Give us one fight we can’t afford to lose, and see how much we’ll swallow to win it. After a few years, a man can find himself defending a policy in front of his own church that he would have spotted a mile away if a Democrat had proposed it.
So yes, I think the Republican Party has hijacked a good part of the church. Republican leaders figured out how to use our opposition to the left to sell their own agenda. And every time Christians came close to asking what we were getting out of the deal, somebody reminded us how bad the Democrats were.
I already know what I think about the Democrats. Show me the Republican policy with the party name scratched off. Would I still support it? If the answer is no, why on earth would I agree to it now?
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