But I don't see how a Christian can justify voting for any candidate who endorses partial-birth abortion. This late-term procedure is murder, plain and simple. Though there are legitimate matters of protection of civil rights and protection from discrimination and so on, state-sponsorship of gay marriage is nothing less than a frontal assault upon Christianity. Marriage is part of creation, and it mirrors Christ's relationship to his church in redemption. Marriage is intended by God to be the means by which children are reared and nurtured.
Marriage is the foundation of the family and preserves the well being of society.
This is the belief that our right to free speech, the free exercise of religion, and so on, derive from the state, instead of seeing these rights as inalienable and given by God as part of common grace, and as stated in the U. S. Constitution. When we begin our series on the Book of Revelation next year, we will see that the beast of Revelation manifests itself as a God-hating political regime which seeks to impose the worship of the state upon the people of God. Though the implications of this are beyond the scope of this brief essay, let me give an example of what I mean. If a minister preaches the law of God, then, he is forced to violate the laws of the state. Since a Christian must serve God rather than man, the state forces a Christian to commit acts of civil disobedience.