So you’re a single-issue voter?
It’s a question that’s often asked with a negative connotation. To be a single-issue voter is looked upon as ignorant or overly dogmatic.
Perhaps it’s true that being a single-issue voter on certain issues is too extreme. Being overly dogmatic on every issue might show a lack of level-headedness. However, can we all agree there are certain issues that are so important, so urgent, so vital to human flourishing that being a single-issue voter is understandable or even commendable?
Looking back in history, don’t we celebrate those who stood against the flow in the face of awful atrocities performed legally? We are inspired by the courage of those who stood against evils of their day even when it cost them.
I would hope that, if I was voting pre-Civil War, I would consider slavery such an important enough issue to be a single-issue voter. If a president had good policies otherwise, I hope I would value human life enough to say that enslaving a whole race of people is so repugnant that I can’t vote for anyone who supports it. Some moral issues are so important and so urgent they demand ultimate priority.
There’s a moral issue in our day that, I believe, requires ultimate priority. This evil is considered acceptable, but is so awful, so destructive, so repugnant, that anyone who values human life should stand against it at all cost: killing babies in the womb.
Sometimes we call it abortion, sometimes we call it reproductive rights, we may even call it a woman’s choice. But, at the end of the day, what we are talking about is ending the life of a baby in her mother’s womb.
Any candidate, platform, or party that enforces such evil cannot get my vote. I cannot cast a ballot for anyone who supports ripping unborn children out of their mother’s womb. When I stand before the Lord, I’ll give an account for everything I do. I cannot, with a clean conscience, vote for anyone who supports such evil. I know there are other important policies, but none of them are worth sacrificing our children.
Therefore, yes, I am a single-issue voter when it comes to abortion.
I hope and pray that fifty years from now we will look back on abortion like we now look back at slavery…with disgust that we ever allowed such heinous evil. Until then, I’ll do everything within my power to stop it, including not voting for anyone who supports it.
