Silent no more: Make your voices heard - VOTE!

Our nation is at a crossroads as our culture gets crazier and crazier. Those of us who hold common-sense, time-tested values on family, marriage, gender, religious liberty, and the right to life for all, born and preborn, must make our voices heard!

“Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce. Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease. But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.” (Jeremiah 29:5-7 ESV)

“Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.” (Proverbs 14:34 ESV)

“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan.” (Proverbs 29:2 NKJV)

We are called to engage and work to benefit the culture in which we have been placed. We are called to be salt and light. Issues like the right to life, gender, marriage between one man and one woman, and freedom of conscience are biblical issues that have been politicized. As Christians, we don't place our hope in a political party or candidate, but we are called to bring biblical values faithfully into every area of life, including voting.

The real issues that divide our country are not political; they are spiritual. What divides America is two competing worldviews. The Author of one worldview is the Author of creation, self-evident truths, and inalienable rights. He is the Lord of lords, the King of kings, the Ultimate Lawgiver, and the Chief Cornerstone of objective reality. The author of the other worldview is the spirit of lawlessness. (Matt. 24:12, 2 Thess. 2:1-3 & 6-8, and 1 John 3:4.)

A brother recently shared the quip that "you cannot legislate morality." On the surface, it sounds clever, but the fact remains that all legislation and laws reflect someone's view of what is right or wrong.

For far too long, Christians have bought the lie that Christ followers don't have a voice in the marketplace of ideas under the false guise of a separation of church and state. In America, we have the freedom to self-govern; as Christians, we strive to conform to His ways and His moral code (the Ten Commandments).

That is why the November 3rd midterm elections are so important! We can't afford to be the silent majority who fail to express our beliefs on Election Day! The welfare of our communities, our state, and our nation depends on our faithful stewardship.

On Wednesday, a woman called our office and demanded that we remove her name from our mailing list. She said "I am Prolife, but I don't want anyone telling me how to vote!" She hates Donald Trump! Well, Greater Toledo Right to Life didn't endorse him in the mailing she received. (GTRTL has never endorsed Trump.)

However, we did endorse Derek Merrin for Congress and recommend Jon Husted for Senate.

Here is the real issue: people like to think of themselves as prolife but then put party and pocketbook before fundamental values of any God-fearing society. Marcy Kaptur and Sherrod Brown have never, in their years of congressional service, supported one prolife piece of prolife legislation! Not even the “Born Alive " bill that protected babies who survived a failed abortion.

A person's voting record matters! A person's management track record matters! A person's worldview matters!

We must fulfill our duty to vote and work to ensure that like-minded friends and family members also vote for those individuals most closely aligned with our principles and values!

Personally, as Ed Sitter, I can and will support, without reservation, candidate Vivek Ramaswamy for Governor, who doesn't share my Christian faith but will support and champion values explicitly stated in my Christian faith on issues like the sanctity of human life, family, gender, and freedom of conscience! Candidates and elected officials who profess to be Christians and hide behind moral neutrality to justify their unchristian voting records are deceivers and liars!