Consider these items from the 2016 Democrat Party platform. At this link (PDF here — the source from which I retrieved the information below), you also can compare and contrast each item to the corresponding statement from the Republican platform.
- The Democrats favor abortion-on-demand and oppose “Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood.” Now, a little less than three years later, they’ve taken what they call “reproductive rights” a step further. They won’t even support a proposal that would require doctors to give life-sustaining care to babies who emerge from the womb alive.
- They favor the redefinition of marriage to include same-sex couples.
- They “support a progressive vision of religious freedom that respects pluralism and rejects the misuse of religion to discriminate.” This means, among other things, that while Democrats think Christians have a right to believe whatever they want to believe in private, they don’t believe they necessarily have the right to live according to their deepest held convictions on a daily basis. This is contrary to the principle of freedom of conscience, a bedrock principle on which our nation was founded. Recall the risks and sacrifices that have been made, not only by Jack Phillips, but also by Barronelle Stutzman, Blaine Adamson, and others.
- Democrats want federal judges “who [will] defend the constitutional principles of liberty and equality for all, and will protect a woman’s right to safe and legal abortion.” To learn what is meant here by equality, we need only look at the proposed so-called “Equality Act.” Various Christian organizations and leaders, including the Family Research Council, the American Family Association, National Religious Broadcasters, Alliance Defending Freedom, Dr. Michael Brown, and Dr. James Dobson, have issued dire warnings against it. They “warn of its chilling effect on religious liberty, describe it as a ‘coercive sexual orientation and gender identity law,’ and say it would force public schools to conform to the LGBTQ agenda.”
- The Democrat platform calls for a reduction in military spending. Also, it celebrates “the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and the opening of combat positions to women.”
- Democrats believe human rights include gay rights. The platform states, “We will continue to stand with LGBT people around the world, including fighting efforts by any nation to infringe on LGBT rights or ignore abuse.”
- Democrats oppose (then candidate) Donald Trump’s recommendation to ban immigrants from countries that provide training and supplies for terrorists. Most of these countries are heavily populated by Muslims.
- The Democrat platform calls for more government intervention in addressing poverty. It indicates party members wish to channel “more federal resources to lifting up communities that have been left out and left behind.”
- Democrats want to abolish capital punishment.
Hopefully most readers see most of the items cited above as clearly immoral and wrong, especially in light of biblical teachings! Recommendations to provide government assistance to those in need, however, may sound reasonable and even compassionate. Even so, these kinds of spending bills—and there have been countless such bills in the history of our country—have not been effective in eliminating or even reducing poverty (also go here). Actually, they appear to have increased it, and then held it steady. How compassionate is that?
The problems in the black community run deeper than social justice warriors understand. Candace Owens recently tweeted,
Poverty rate among blacks: 22% Poverty rate among whites: 11% Poverty rate among MARRIED blacks: 7% Do not let liberal supremacists convince you that white people are the problem at the same time that their policies encourage the 77% father absence rate in black households.
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top image: The Democrat National Convention was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 25–28, 2016
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