I do not want to sound irrelevant, but the societally destructive idea that Religion and Politics should be kept separate will not die, so I must speak to it.  I speak from my Christian worldview and through my study of American history and the Founding Fathers.

I have told people, “You are not a cat; you do not have multiple lives; you have a life, and that life is the sum total of who you truly are.”  Yet, I continue to meet the idea, among Church attendees, that life is compartmentalized and separate.  I beg to differ!  What you truly are will be revealed in the total of your interactions.  Your work, social, religious, political, and family life combined define you. 

That being said, how do we totally divest ourselves of politics when politics impacts life, and life is what we live? Today’s extreme secularization is troubling. I do not ask nor desire that preachers make every sermon a political activism speech. That would be contrary to the purpose of the ministry. However, I expect preachers and church members to be engaged, aware, and even vocal about things contrary to moral sense and biblical standards. 

If we try to build an impenetrable wall between things political and things spiritual, we will open the door for those seeking to advance anti-biblical agendas to operate freely.  I believe that believers are expected to sound the alarm when danger is visible.  Often, politics embodies dangers that cannot be ignored.  Therefore, religion and politics cannot always be separated. 

There are two sides to the coin of religious involvement in government; it can go too far.   I am convinced that a major impetus in today’s societal norm, the demand that “Abortion is a Woman’s Personal Choice,” is the acceptance of homosexual marriages.  God did not create multiple genders but “male and female, created He them.” (Genesis 1:27).   There is nothing ambiguous about that.

My religious views are that abortion is the taking of a human life.  I believe there are instances where, biblically, there is justification for taking a human life.  The Bible speaks to them, punishment for premeditated murder being the chief, not abortion.  If you do not view that baby in the womb as a human being in development, you may well be able to endorse abortion; I cannot.

The founding fathers were diligent in their endeavor to prevent the government from imposing any religious beliefs on the public. They did not want a ‘State Church,’ as was the case in England. They wanted freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. They desired that each person have the right to worship or not worship as they desired.

Demanding that we keep religion and politics completely separate opens the door for edicts such as the one Kamala Harris has declared her administration would follow.  She said that there would be no religious exemptions to medical personnel regarding abortions.  That takes the matter a step further than ‘Separation of Church and State’ and imposes the States’ wishes on religion.   If you demand the church and religion stay out of politics, you must also insist that the state or politics stay out of our religious lives. 

The insistence that abortion should be legal until and, in some cases, even after birth is beyond diabolical.  How could anyone, even the most ardent supporters of abortion, not acknowledge that that fully developed child is a human being?  How is that not genocide?  How is that not infanticide?  How can that be deemed just and acceptable?  How can I remain silent when the lives of the unborn are being regarded as an unwanted growth on the body?  How?

She called it a ‘fundamental freedom to make decisions about your own body.”  Madam, what about the fundamental freedom of that unborn to have the opportunity to live?   That baby in the womb is not part of the woman’s body; it is a separate life being hosted in the woman’s body.  That baby is not a kidney, a gall bladder, or some other organ; it is a Human Being!

With each incursion by the State to regulate our religious freedoms or other freedoms, we inch closer to the condition where the State defines life and decides where we live, work, and how we conduct life.  That is not freedom; that is tyranny and slavery.  I cannot sit in silence and watch our liberties and freedoms trampled on by the godless oligarchs of politics. 

I am a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, a Christian.  I am a natural-born American, a Vietnam Veteran, a patriot, a father, grandfather, husband, brother, and neighbor.  I want what is best for America, and infringing upon our Religious Freedom and demanding that Christians sit in silence regarding politics is dangerous and destructive.  Therefore, I will continue to sound the alarm as long as I draw breath and stand for Faith, Family, and Freedom. 

God bless you, and God bless America!