I have long believed that one cannot and should not violate his or her conscience in voting.

If you sincerely cannot support a certain candidate, even if you agree with most of their policy issues, you should not vote against your conscience.

The Bible is clear:

Whatever does not proceed from faith is sin (Romans 14:23).

You should not take a vaccine, play a sport, attend a school or church, hang out with a friend, take a job, or have a drink if something deep within your heart says “This is not right for me,” even if you recognize that other people can lawfully partake without the same sense of conviction.

This holds true for voting.

You can vote for the better candidate or the better policies. You can simply view it as a choice between two flawed people, or vote for the platform that will lessen evil in our culture.

Many people can do this. But not all.

I have written in a candidate in the past when I felt I could not vote for either name on the ballot.

After all, I will give account for my vote to God. No one else.

BUT…

I used to be skeptical of people (and especially Christian leaders) who would passionately persuade others to vote “against” someone or something. Perhaps it was my young idealism, but I thought, “My vote is a vote for something… I am responsible for it… It’s not logical to vote “against” something.”

I don’t know if it’s simply because I’m growing older or because I see the rapid moral decline of our society, but I don’t hold to that belief quite so strongly anymore. I now see the wisdom of my elders.

Because when I look at our two current options for president, although both are very flawed individuals, there is a dichotomy so clear that even my four-year-old understands it.

Kamala Harris’ ultimate goal is to federally legalize abortion through all nine months. Period. Let me translate: Kamala Harris wants to add an amendment to our U.S. Constitution that says a woman can murder her unborn child anywhere and at any time. She wants it in the Constitution, so it can’t be overturned by the courts. If she can’t accomplish that, she wants to transform the Supreme Court so they can rule on a new “Roe” that’s so expansive and evil that it will make the first one look like a nursery rhyme.

Will she be able to do that? Maybe not. It looks like the Senate will flip red, which will delay a deluge of progressive policy changes. But even if she can’t do it during her term, her presidency would hurl us toward that ultimate end goal.

We know how this works if we look back over the decade leading up to the Obergefell ruling. This is how they do it: They shout until people agree. It only takes a few years before people fail to remember what they used to believe. It took a mere 15 years for the majority of the populace to change their minds about same-sex marriage (source).

We can see the same thing happening with abortion (source).

So do I want to vote for Trump? Not really. I don’t love his personality (except when he is working at McDonald’s or driving around in a garbage truck), but Kamala’s campaign is one that I want to vote against.

I get it now.

In the words of Rod Dreher on a podcast recently, I will “crawl over glass to vote for Trump” because a world where Kamala is president is so evil and disordered that I will do anything I can to resist it.

I will vote to keep Kamala away from the Oval Office, and then, on November 6th, regardless of the outcome, I must begin advocating for a conservative candidate I can proudly vote FOR in 2028.

So here is the choice before us:

If you are a Christian and believe God’s Word that he creates all humans and they bear his image and dignity from the moment of conception, it should be a violation of your conscience to vote for Kamala. Abortion kills ONE MILLION image bearers per year. The practice is a blight upon our nation. And I am not even going to get into how "gender-affirming care" violates bodies as well.

If you are a Christian, you may gladly vote for Trump as the better choice during this election.

Christians may also wholeheartedly vote against Kamala Harris as an attempt to stave off wickedness in our country.

Or you could be a Christian, and it may violate your conscience to vote for Donald Trump. You are free to write in or abstain from making a presidential pick.

But before you make your final decision, consider this:

If Kamala wins this election and access to abortion is eventually legalized from coast to coast without restriction, what will your conscience tell you then? Will you feel justified by writing in? Will you feel satisfied by staying home?