Do Christian Voters Matter?
Politics are an important topic among Iowa's churches leading up to the caucuses Tuesday night
Iowa – With the caucus only hours away now, the Evangelical Christian base will have to continue to rally around a single candidate or they face becoming irrelevant.
The Reverend Cary Gordon has been outspoken about the Christian community rallying around a single candidate, and has been recently quoted as saying “It seems to me that it’s time for her to close down shop”, in reference to Bachmann’s campaign. Gordon was an early endorser of former Senator Rick Santorum who has now moved into 3rd place in a recent major Iowa poll, and would be in 2nd place if the polling had been delayed by just 2 days.
Gordon once again established his belief in Rick Santorum, “At such a critical time in our history, facing unbearable levels of deficit spending and the back-breaking weight of a never-before-seen brand of socialist medicine codified by our misguided federal government, it is necessary for Iowans to set-aside legitimately emotional attachments to some of the good candidates now faltering in their attempt to run for office and coalesce (rally) behind a trustworthy and honorable man named Rick Santorum. Rick Santorum, if elected to the presidency, will be the most conservative president since 1980. Perhaps I’m being too conservative in my estimation, but 1980 seems like a good year.”
Doug Gross was quoted in the PBS show ‘Need to Know’ as saying, “They don’t know who to support. They’ve got 4 people who they’re talking about”. I asked Gordon how would you help guide Christians into backing a single candidate as Gross said in the same program, “The social conservatives are a power within the Republican party, They’re particularly a power in the caucuses, but they are not the majority power. They don’t pick the winner. You can’t be a governing party have a minority control you. You become a minority party if that occurs. The focus of our parties are to win elections, to carry out results; not to carry out results by loosing elections.”
Gordon shared his thoughts about those statements by Gross, “Doug may or may not be correct on who is in the alleged majority. I would remind him that on any single day in history when every evangelical in America decides to vote at the same time, he’ll need to take his own advice (as a secularist minority voter who ‘doesn’t pick winners’).”
“The focus of our party must be more than merely “winning elections”, if the policy a party supports is bad for the country (like Tarp 1 and 2) and defies the first-principles of historic Americanism, when we “win” our nation really loses. We deserve to win only when we offer winning solutions to American problems. We deserve to hold power only when the “results” we “carry out” are right for this nation.”
“So what is right for our nation?”,Gordon continued, “Unfortunately, Doug Gross represents the kind of unhinged Republican secularism that is at the root of America’s untethering from it’s own rule of law, via disregard for the absolute-truth anchor of natural law. Our founders understood that liberty could not be maintained without the absolutism of natural law, because without it, the tyranny of either majoritarianism or minoritarianism would crush our GOD given rights.
