I just came across this page today and am still shaking my head in disbelief, especially in light of former vice-president Joe Biden's town hall comments last night about (somehow) legislating the right to abortion if Roe vs. Wade is overturned. Surely, one has to seriously reconsider signing your name to a petition like this one in support of a candidate who has pledged to not only support but even legislate if necessary the practice of killing unborn children.
Inevitably (I say “inevitably” because it’s already happened more than once), some will call me a “one-issue” voter. To that, I would respond with the sage words of Pee Wee Herman: “I know you are, but what am I?” Here pastor John Piper can better explain:
“No endorsement of any single issue qualifies a person to hold public office. Being pro-life does not make a person a good governor, mayor, or president. But there are numerous single issues that disqualify a person from public office. For example, any candidate who endorsed bribery as a form of government efficiency would be disqualified, no matter what his party or platform was. Or a person who endorsed corporate fraud (say under $50 million) would be disqualified no matter what else he endorsed. Or a person who said that no black people could hold office—on that single issue alone he would be unfit for office. Or a person who said that rape is only a misdemeanor—that single issue would end his political career. These examples could go on and on. Everybody knows a single issue that for them would disqualify a candidate for office.
You have to decide what those issues are for you. What do you think disqualifies a person from holding public office? I believe that the endorsement of the right to kill unborn children disqualifies a person from any position of public office. It's simply the same as saying that the endorsement of racism, fraud, or bribery would disqualify him—except that child-killing is more serious than those.”
I agree. It's a hypothetical, but how do you think unborn babies—if they were somehow aware of the issue—might vote? If you say it doesn't matter, then the only logical explanation for your perspective is: 1) You don't think they are human until outside the womb, which goes against science; or 2) You don't care they are human inside the womb, which goes against Scripture; or 3) You're not willing to stand against the idea that a woman's “right” to choose is of greater worth than the life of an unborn child, which goes against society.
So, in this regard, I suppose I am a one-issue voter. I support all the “pro-life” items in the petition, but we won’t get there as a civilization until we stop being content with putting the pegs of our starting blocks through the skulls of our unborn.