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The Problem of Voting for Candidates Who Promise to do Evil

November 4th, 2024 | 10 min read

By Matt Martens

In this presidential election season, you’ve likely heard someone say something like this: “I understand if you can’t vote for Trump. But no Christian can vote for Harris.” Implicit in a statement of this sort are several assumptions, but no arguments in support of any of them. The statement assumes: (a) it’s morally permissible for a Christian to vote for Trump, (b) it’s not morally permissible for a Christian to vote for Harris, and (c) it may be morally permissible for a Christian to abstain from voting and/or to vote third-party.

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Matt Martens

Matt Martens is a Christian, a lawyer, a seminary graduate, a former political appointee in the George W. Bush administration, and the author of a book entitled Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal (Crossway 2023). Matt has been a member of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. for more than a dozen years. The views expressed here are his and do not necessarily represent the views of any organization with which he is associated.