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The Bible and the Ballot: Using Scripture in Political Decisions is unavailable, but you can change that!

Christians affirm the Bible as our standard of faith and practice. We turn to it to hear God’s voice. But what relevance does the Bible have for the contentious public policy issues we face today? Although the Bible does not always speak explicitly to modern issues, it does give us guiding principles as we think about how we might vote or act as political figures ourselves. The Bible and the...

and others’ religious values, whether extramarital sexual relations or the pregnant woman or her partner’s personal benefit or quality of life. The idea that no one can tell a woman (or a man, for that matter) what to do with her body rings harsh in the minds of pro-life advocates who know that that body contains a separate life (or potential thereof). As Michael Gorman states, “The call by pro-choice groups for freedom reflects not a responsible Christian attitude toward freedom but a secularly
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