I was encouraged to read my friend Uri Brito's post on Kuyperian Commentary this morning---"Political Pluralism is a Sham!"---and in the spirit of piling on, I wanted to share my own "Yes, and Amen!"
On Wednesday, January 11, 2023, the House of Representatives passed a bill, barely, requiring doctors to provide medical care to babies who survive an attempted abortion. Just to be clear, this law, which the Senate will not pass and the President will veto if it comes to his desk, obligates medical providers to try to save the life of infants who have been poisoned, mutilated, and otherwise harmed in an attempt to kill them and remove them from their mother’s womb but who, somehow, survive the attack. Every Republican in the House who was present voted for the bill. Every Democrat, except one, refused to support it. Of the 212 Democrats in the House of Representatives, 210 voted against saving the child’s life, one voted present (cf. cowardice in a dictionary), and one voted in favor of it. (It’s got to be awkward to be the only orc that doesn’t think we should kill and eat the prisoners.)
Now I realize I am breaking a cardinal rule here. American society has been rapidly reconditioned (i.e. brainwashed) not to notice that the dude in a dress is a guy, and prominent Reformed denominations have been encouraged not to notice the (D) next to certain politicians’ names. But it is hard not to notice that for all the negative things that can be said about those Republicans—and there are a lot of negative things one might say—the Democrat Party, qua Party, stands explicitly, uniformly, and vehemently opposed to the most basic creational, biblical, and ethical norms. Whether it is promoting envy and unbiblical economic policies, gaslighting the American public regarding “systemic racism” while promoting programs that establish that very thing, queering our children and grooming them on behalf of sexual perverts, flaunting the same perversion on embassy soil in foreign nations, or promoting, protecting, and celebrating the mass slaughter of unborn children as a moral good—in every case the Democrats have taken the side of Sauron and proven their intransigence, contumacy, and steadfast opposition to all that is true, good, and beautiful.
We have heard a lot since 2016 about political pluralism in the Church. Ambivalence on political questions and opposition to “culture warriors” has been well-represented and promoted by prominent thinkers in the OPC. I did not vote for Trump in 2016. I did not trust him. But the notion that disgust with Republican compromise somehow validates a vote for the other major party should not be tolerable. That members of “conservative” Reformed denominations openly supported a violent, Marxist, anti-Christian organization like BLM and the politicians who stand with them says a great deal about the lack of clarity that has been found in our preaching and leadership in churches for far too long. Where are the prophets who will call out Israel’s worldliness in moral and political matters today? –JME
