Before reading, please refer to part 1 of this article.

We are now witnessing something many believe is worse than slavery. We are seeing legal genocide! Thus, when people of color vote for a pro-choice candidate or platform, they are (unconsciously) voting for their systemic extermination!

Regarding “after birth” issues like racism, we have to be fair and cite the terrible racist history of the Democratic Party. It was part of Jim Crow, the KKK, and slavery.  It was far behind the Republican Party (the party of Lincoln and Dr. Martin Luther King) regarding civil rights until the past three decades. Hence, we should not blindly vote based on party affiliation but according to how the party platform and candidate accords with biblical moral law.

(Click here to read about the civil rights history of both major political parties by African-American, Frantz Kebreau.)

The seventh commandment, “You shall not commit adultery” (Exodus 20:14), basically teaches that all sexual acts outside of the marriage of one man and one woman are considered adultery. The marriage bed, as defined by God’s word, is undefiled (Hebrews 13:4). Leviticus 18 gets into more detail regarding how the seventh commandment is unpacked and illustrates how heterosexual sex with someone that is not one’s spouse, with another person’s spouse, with in-laws, same-sex relations, as well as sex with animals, are forbidden by God. Paul the Apostle restates some of these sexual acts as sin in Romans 1:26-27 and 1 Corinthians 6:9-11.

Hence, same-sex marriage clearly violates two of the first three commandments related to human relations!

The eighth commandment, “You shall not steal” (Exodus 20:15), is related to economics.

This is where it gets sticky. Progressives claim that one of the major political parties favors the rich because, they say, they pay less of a percentage of taxes than the middle class. (The income tax percentage for the rich is higher than the middle class, but most rich people earn much of their income through capital gains, which are taxed much lower than salary income. However, all people have a right to buy and sell property and trade on the stock market. Thus, it is not a right reserved only for the rich. However, most poor people need to be financially knowledgeable or have enough money to make a living through capital gains categories like real estate and trading stocks.

On the other hand, I have heard some conservative people of color say that the Democrats are still attempting to keep their people on the plantation through entitlements and welfare programs that merely help in the short term but don’t do enough to break the generational cycles of poverty. Other black leaders have noted how people of color have more poverty today as related to marriage, intact families, and finances than before the Great Society programs of Lyndon Johnson started in the mid-1960s. This proves handouts and welfare have hurt more than helped people of color!

I believe a halfway approach is best: that government economic aid to the poor should continue, but that it should be redefined and restructured so there are far fewer blind handouts. I believe money should be funneled through partnerships with churches, non-profits, and charities that have boots on the ground and know how to do micro-financing, job training, entrepreneurial endeavors, and educate at-risk children. They would more likely do a better job than government bureaucrats. 

With the current level of family fragmentation, non-profits, and church-based programs need to step up to the plate now more than ever because big government entitlement programs with no practical accountability have proven they cannot “parachute in” and rescue our communities! 

For books on this subject, read Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (And How to Reverse It) by Robert Lupton and When Helping Hurts: Alleviating Poverty Without Hurting the Poor… and Yourself by Brian Fikkert and Steve Corbett.

Furthermore, by forbidding stealing in the eighth commandment, God espouses the right of individuals to own private property. Thus, this commandment is against any ideology (whether liberation theology or communism) that espouses economic egalitarianism, which is when an overreaching central government tries to force equality and the redistribution of wealth by an extremely progressive tax structure or, in communism, by the abolition of private property altogether!

On the other hand, most conservatives in this nation are against redistribution and believe in empowering individual rights and the free market. I believe this is more in line with scripture than those espousing communism and economic egalitarianism.

(I espouse a kingdom economic approach that not only includes a flat tax for everyone (i.e., like the biblical tithe) and a free market view of capitalism but which obligates Christian business owners to disciple, finance, and reproduce other business owners from among their employees. This would do more than merely create jobs in poor urban areas; it would develop entrepreneurs who can break their generational cycles of poverty!)

(Read Doing Business God’s Way by Dennis Peacocke for more.)

Furthermore, the tenth commandment, “You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods” (Exodus 20:17), also seems to advance the theory of private property and is against the motive of egalitarianism, which many believe is driven by the politics of class warfare and envy.

Debating economic theory and what works would take a large position paper.

(I highly recommend black economist Thomas Sowell’s book Basic Economics as a starter for this important subject.)

However, even if (hypothetically) progressives are correct in their position, the commandment dealing with economics is number eight on God’s top-ten list, thus not as important as commandments 1-7. Furthermore, God tells believers that if they put His kingdom and righteousness first, He will provide everything we need anyway (Matthew 6:33). 

Elections and voting are always a test for all believers: Are we going to vote on our biblical values as stated in God’s top-ten list, or will we vote on our race, ethnicity, and party affiliation? Suppose there is a situation in which candidates from either party fall short of these moral and ethical standards. In that case, I believe the best person to vote for in a local or national election is the one that most favors biblical faith and a platform closest to upholding the essence of the Law of God.