A Trump vs. Clinton November absolutely, positively should mean that any pro-life voter holds their nose and votes for Trump, ego or not.
This is a view I once held. I even practiced it to some extent in the last cycle, but at least then, it started feeling disingenuous. At this point I know longer hold this view. I have seen no clear evidence, other than the person saying so, that the front runner in the GOP even cares about the issue of life. Certainly not to the extent that he would make an issue of it with any one. In fact, he HAS divulged that he supports all the “good work” that Planned Parenthood does, (except the abortions), and sees no reason why we would need to defund PP. I believe he may have had a change of heart regarding life in the sense of of abortion, but only two of his competitors hold it as such a strong value that we might honestly expect something to be done in either congress or the court during their presidency. Even at that, the real work of the pro-life movement, I have come to believe is to change hearts. Not mans laws. If we can accomplish both, then great. Politically, I’d look farther down the ticket. Look at your Representative to the house, and your Senator race, (if you’re having one). If the only choice left to me as a voter is the current GOP front runner, and the current DEM front runner, then I find no sin in opting out of a vote in that one contest, so as not to participate with evil in any way. I would still go vote. I would vote on all my local issues, and for all the local offices on the ballot, and perhaps write in a candidate that I would actually support for the President spot, (which is just one thing on the ballot). In this one scenario, I have absolutely zero faith that the GOP front runner would be any less evil than the DEM front runner and would not be in favor of a presidency for either of them. We must follow our conscience. It is in the catechism. It is a prime point of philosophy and theology. It is where the voice of God speaks to us. If to you that voice says you have to vote for president, then frankly, you must. If mine tells me that I should not, then just as frankly, I must not. Otherwise we are allowing our pride and desires to override our God given conscience. You must be in obedience to your conscience which should be in obedience to God. That’s basically all I’m saying. For some that means to vote for the lesser of two evils. (I even feel that way in some circumstances, within my own conscience…just not in this one particular possible, and likely matchup). For some that will mean to just not vote, or do a write in for that one particular office on this one particular ballot.
I am saying, and I believe through prayer and meditation, that we are no better in the hands of a GOP administration headed by the current front runner, than we are with an administration headed by the front runner of the DEM party at this point. For perhaps the first time, for me, there is no option better than another. There is no holding my nose on anything. I will simply put God first in my life, as I already do, and live through either administration that the country chooses for itself. I will pray each day for our leaders, as I already do. I will pray each day for life, and a change of hearts, as I already do. And my conscience will be clear that I didn’t help either demagogue rise to power to destroy our nation through either fascism or tyranny. I’ll continue to render unto Caesar what is Caesars and to God what is Gods. I will be equally unhappy as a citizen with either leader, but that part is nothing new. I have been unhappy on the citizen front since 1988 at least.
If it makes “must vote” folks any happier…in every other possible matchup this go around, I would vote for the GOP candidate. Just not the most likely scenario that we all see coming.
May God bless and have mercy on us all. Whatever we decide as a people.
