{"id":135464,"date":"2017-11-28T12:41:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T19:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135464"},"modified":"2017-11-30T23:32:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T06:32:49","slug":"okay-god-vote-bad-people-like-policy-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/28\/okay-god-vote-bad-people-like-policy-positions.html","title":{"rendered":"It’s okay with God to vote for bad people if you like their policy positions"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s the point of this article in The Federalist<\/em>. The author can’t seem to quite go whole-hog and say that character is meaningless (indeed, she keeps insisting that it’s of great importance), but she does dance around it a lot, ultimately coming down hard on the side of “Even if Roy Moore sexually assaulted young and under-age women, at least he’ll vote for more conservative ideologues on the Supreme Court, and that’s what really matters, because his leching after teenagers half his age is a private sin, not a public one, so it pales compared to his willingness to get rid of abortion, so it’s all okay.”<\/p>\n

One irony here is that this is an attitude, a moral relativism, that conservatives often accuse liberals of. But social conservatives explicitly claim<\/i> a moral righteousness, a purity, a demand for virtue in others, that flies directly in the face of this sort of realpolitik.<\/i> Ultimately, the author has to sort of shrug and say, “Hey, God does great things through immoral people in the Bible, so God probably wants you to vote for Roy Moore.”<\/p>\n

I’m not sure that’s a particularly moral argument, and it seems a poor theological one; hopefully it’s not (as it was last November) a winning<\/i> one.<\/p>\n


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\nWhy It\u2019s Justified To Vote For A Morally Questionable Politician<\/a><\/span>
\nGod uses all kinds of \u2018immoral\u2019 men and women to bring about his purposes. He is actually rather pragmatic regarding the secular world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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