How does one determine the “hierarchy of injustices?” Is that an exegetical move or something else (philosophical, ethical, political, etc.)?

Is it not subjective to declare abortion the #1 injustice issue? I am honestly asking. I am pro-life, but no one (black or white) has ever told me why abortion MUST be the #1 issue for a “Bible-believing” Christian. Obviously, Jesus and the prophets address many injustices. So where does one determine that, objectively, abortion is the top issue at al times and in all places?

Any insight would be appreciated.

Here is some scripture they should be teaching:

“What you do to the least of these you do unto me”

“Before I knit you in your mother’s womb I knew
you”.

Of course being pro-life is incompatible with what we know of Mr. Obama’s history
and voting record.
Sen. Obama received the following scores on NARAL Pro-Choice America’s Congressional Record on Choice.

2007: 100 percent
2006: 100 percent
2005: 100 percent

By the way, when he was in the Illinois legislature he voted against requiring a physician to save the life of an infant who had survived a botched abortion. This is a more extreme position than even most pro-abortion groups like NARAL have. He is as far as I know the most pro-abortion, pro homosexual candidate ever to run for president. If this man represents the new Christianity and the new America, God help us all.

One could disagree over issues such as war and the death penalty and still be a good Christian. Abortion and homosexuality are always and forever more wrong and serious evils. They
were wrong two thousand years ago and will be two thousand years from now.

Nothing sanctioned by man can have any validity or lasting if it is not also likewise sanctioned by God.

Mr. Obama is the first African-American to be nominated by a major party, which is hugh. No man, however can come before God or the word of God.

How any bible-believing loving Christian, African-American or otherwise can even consider voting for this man is beyond me.

How one could even compare the taking of an innocent life with any other issue is beyond me.

In the hierarchy of injustices, this is number one.

Question:What does one human life mean to God?(not to man, but to God).

It’s estimated Henry Hyde through his Hyde Amendment may have save a million lives. If he only
saved one is that not worth it?
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Maggie Styles, staff counsel for Americans United for Life, says that a pro-life president “could help build a culture of life through judicial appointments, the enactment and defense of pro-life laws and policies, executive orders, vetoes and judicial appointments.”

If ten young men grow up impoverished and only one of them survives and escapes it is that not worth it?
Rather than someone who would have suggested aborting them to their mothers?

The day will come for each of us when we will have to stand before God and justify our every action,
including voting for someone like this.

There is a picture at the bottom of the National Right to LIfe web page(nrlc.org). Go there and
scroll down and take a look and think long and hard about how you’re going to vote.

With knowledge comes responsibility. People today are very
hard-hearted and stiff-necked, however.

Thanks for the helpful post. Obviously some have mistaken your intent. Don’t worry about that. Obviously, the theocrats will vote for no candidate, unless Paul or Moses run - oh no, they have sinned also.

According to the “standards” of some on this blog, there will be a lot of faithful Christian not voting this fall. Thank you for helping those who will be participating in the process.

Grace to you from SBTS

Your previous post on Barrack Obama is simple genius. You’re a great writer, especially in that post. It helps Anglos get closer to where African-Americans are.

The post is good, but doesn’t settle the issue for me. I’m not Black though so I can only speak for me. I am considering not voting this year too. I have problems with both men, especially Obama. I would love to vote for him just because he is Black, but can’t do that.

I’m glad you’re in the SBC leading and influencing White folks to understand the racial challenge more.

First, there has not been a presidential candidate that has obeyed all of God’s commands personally and in political policy. To say that one should not vote for Obama because of his position on child-killing is acceptable. But every candidate is evil. Reagan divorced and remarried. Kennedy was involved with the mafia and was an adulterer. The list goes on and on. What candidate has not capitalized on nationalistic pride (cf. Is. 9:8-12)? What candidate has seriously sought justice for the poor and oppressed (cf. Is. 10:1-4)? What candidate has called for the nation to trust in the one true living God instead of politics, prosperity and military power (cf. Ps. 20, 49, 146)? By your standards, if the candidates cannot obey God in their personal lives or political policies, voting would be both unethical and sinful.

Second, our nation is built on the democratic process. In other words, we the people have a wshare in the government of our nation. We are thus also held responsible. As Christians, we are concerned primarily with the Gospel and its spread in our nation and abroad. We should be concerned about the direction of the nation for the sake of the Gospel and the glory of God. Voting is not an exercise of the flesh but of the common grace of God on our nation. The sinfulness of the options should not surprise us. In a fallen world, we can only ask, “Which one will be more faithful in defending the nation, upholding righteousness and caring for the ‘fatherless and the widow’?”

I am not necessarily defending or supporting Obama. I just believe that saying one candidate is disqualified because of a sinful policy would disqualify every candidate who would ever run for office.