NON-NEGOTIABLE

This Protestant Pastor Preaches Non-Negotiables

Today on Facebook I saw a post done by a Catholic priest in Maryland.  He talked about our freedoms and how he wasn't going to tell anyone for whom they should vote.  He said that differences of opinion about things like climate can be discussed and negotiated.  BUT, he went on, there are some things that are non-negotiable to believing Christians of all faith:

• The sanctity of human life
• The sanctity of marriage
• Religious freedom.

Non-negotiables

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has always strived to be politically neutral and has, instead, encouraged its members to study the issues and the candidates and vote prayerfully.  But there are exceptions.  These exceptions are the same three non-negotiables mentioned by Father Edward Meeks.  When there are issues surrounding abortion, marriage other than one man to one woman, and religious freedom, they encourage members to stand up and speak out.

I have heard Latter-day Saints say they won't vote for our current president for a variety of reasons.  There is even a group of Mormon's out there who are openly opposing the president (led by a former BYU professor.)  Quite frankly, that confuses me.  What is their alternative? For whom will they vote?  The only viable other choice is the Democratic ticket.  I Googled third-party candidates and found no one who has a snowball's chance of being elected.  A vote for one of them takes away a vote from the one electable candidate who supports traditional marriage, religious freedom, and denounces abortion.

I am not voting for Donald Trump. He comes across as arrogant.  But I am voting for his platform which includes the non-negotiables.  I've studied the Democrat's platform and listened to their candidates and I hear voices in the background as if from the War in Heaven.  Under what "inspiration" do they derive their stance.? As a Christian, I cannot in good conscience vote for that platform or for the man and woman representing its tenets.

I'll end with this: In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children . . . (Alma 46:12)

Write that on your coat and hang it on a pole.

© Kathleen Rawlings Buntin Danielson October 2020