A Stark Contrast

Two recent incidents provided a stark contrast for men and women of faith to seriously consider over the course of the next 14 days.

Two Wisconsin college students recently attended a rally for Kamala Harris. They were shocked by the emotion she displayed when she was talking about abortion on demand. And they were shocked by the enthusiasm of the crowd, which seemed to be celebrating abortion as if it were a sacrament. 

That seemed to be the message from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer: “If you exercise your right to abort your child, you may not be able to get communion from your church, but you can get it from me.”

Just as I believe God put it on Donald Trump’s heart to move his head at precisely the right moment to avoid the assassin’s bullet, these students felt God laid it on their hearts to speak out at this celebration of abortion. One yelled, “Jesus is Lord,” and the other shouted, “Christ is King!”

This wasn’t a big venue, and the crowd wasn’t that big either. Harris saw exactly where these young men were when they shouted the Lord’s name. She immediately looked at them and said, “You guys are at the wrong rally.” The crowd roared at her mockery of their faith as the students were ejected from the event.

The message to these students was exactly what the left tells God-fearing Christians all the time: “We don’t want to hear from people like you. Your faith isn’t wanted here.”

A few days later, there was another rally in Wisconsin. As J.D. Vance was speaking about the left’s attacks on Judeo-Christian values and religious liberty, someone in the audience yelled, “Jesus is King!”

Vance immediately replied back, “That’s right. Jesus IS King!” That crowd enthusiastically cheered. No one was mocked, and no one was kicked out of the rally.

The election is 14 days away. No one is asking us to walk into the middle of a hostile crowd. We are only being asked to walk into the privacy of a voting booth to defend our values.