Life and Politics

Randy Alcorn, founder of Eternal Perspective Ministries, has an insightful blog post on Barack Obama’s pro-choice stance. He admits up front, “My blog on Barack Obama’s pro-abortion stance, and the fact that various evangelical Christians are supporting and campaigning for him, has been getting lots of comments, some of them heated.” You can read the rest here, and scroll to the end which has video clips of Obama speaking at a Planned Parenthood event.

If you are weary of abortion being a political litmus test, then I would encourage you to wrestle with this new piece from Touchstone magazine. Here is an excerpt:

“There has been a steady campaign by some Christians who regard themselves as orthodox and conservative to persuade the rank and file of their Christian brothers and sisters to rethink their predictable support for political candidates who are pro-life. They bring other issues to the fore—war, torture, taxes, education, health care, and poverty—in an attempt to undermine the claim that conscientious Christians must always support pro-life candidates. They imply that such ‘single-issue’ pro-life voting is unsophisticated, often in lockstep with the mostly uneducated ‘religious right,’ and perhaps not even very moral in the long view.”