Voting for the Lesser of Two Evils is Sin
Imagine two major party candidates running for governor. One wants to build Nazi death camps in every major city, complete with gas chambers. Another wants to build only one death camp at the state capitol, but only use humane lethal injections instead. Would you vote for the lethal injection candidate to defeat the death camp in every city candidate? Congratulations, you’ve just build a government subsidized death camp.
Lou Engle once said that while Hitler may have not directly killed anyone, he killed many through legislative decree. So Hitler sinned perhaps not through committing the act, but by ordering that it be done. Any time we vote for someone, we are making a legislative decree supporting what they have promised to do in office and their prior voting record. So if they support evil, we are committing sin by our vote decreeing that they be allowed to do that evil.
If we vote for candidates who support abortion, we kill through legislative decree. At the end of the day it doesn’t matter if they are building death camps in every city or just one, supporting partial birth abortion or abortion in case of rape or incest, we can’t allow even one death camp to be built in America or one elective abortion in America. As Chelene Nightingale, a current California candidate for governor said, “The lesser of two evils is still evil.” Allowing evil in government is like allowing a little rat poision in food, it will always bring harm no matter how small a quantity is used. We can’t allow any evil in government no matter how small it seems compared to a greater evil.
Now the argument may be raised that if you support a third party candidate, they have no chance of winning the election. John the Baptist didn’t listen to that type of reasoning. He spoke out against Herod taking Herod’s brother’s wife, when he had no chance of changing who would be in power. The most important issue is speaking out against evil, not winning the election. We cannot compromise on evil to win the election. Because if an evil candidate is elected we haven’t really won the election, we’ve lost the election by allowing evil to be in power. Think about it, in the Nazi death camp example above have you really won the election if the lethal injection candidate is elected? Are they really someone you want in power? We have to speak out against evil whether or not our candidate wins. Even if the third party candidate is not elected, if enough people vote for him/her, politicians will notice that candidate and what they stood for.
On the California ballot, there are many races where both candidates are pro-choice and/or pro-gay. This includes the races for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, and superintendant of public instruction. (Also the Republican candidate for controller is pro-choice in cases of rape or incest) And that doesn’t even include races for the state legislature and US congressional seats. We cannot suppport candidates like this just to win the election, because at the end of the day we’ve just allowed evil to be decreed.
So vote your consience this election, not necissarily Republican. Vote pro-life, vote pro-tradional marriage. Speak out against evil whether you win or not. Don’t sin by allowing evil; there is a judgment day where you must give account of your life to Christ.
