Evangelicals for Harris-Walz Shill for the Party of Death
Abortion Is the Democrats’ Chief Sacrament
While evangelicals on the Right always seem to be getting flak from evangelical elites, those on the Left are routinely celebrated in our culture as open-minded, true followers of Christ. Evangelicals for Harris-Walz (now that the radical Minnesota governor has joined the presidential ticket) is one such group that purports to be making political decisions informed by scriptural injunctions and godly wisdom. Many in these circles are not liberal icons like Jim Wallis but have been passed off as orthodox by conservatives and supposedly practice a politics deeply influenced by the love Jesus said we must have for our neighbors.
Though supporters of Evangelicals for Harris-Walz claim to be “[f]aithful, compassionate evangelicals exercising our God-given citizenship by voting for someone who better reflects Christian values,” this doesn’t pass even the slightest scrutiny. In truth, they are apologists for LGBTQ radicalism, genital mutilation, shouting your abortion, white people (especially men) getting punished and shut out from colleges and upper-tier jobs, functionally nonexistent borders, and foolish economic policies that will crash the U.S economy. Armed with a few favorite—but badly misunderstood—verses from Scripture ripped from their context, Evangelicals for Harris-Walz are prepared to overlook a whole host of evils to check off a few of their trendy concerns. Their real power is being able to pass this off as “moderation,” which is as sinister as it is pervasive among the upper ranks in the evangelical world.
Evangelicals for Harris-Walz is composed of a who’s who of evangelical heavy hitters who, unlike many in the Trump camp, have notable influence in the trajectory of evangelicalism writ large.
Perhaps their most significant supporter is Bishop Claude Alexander, who believes in the 1990s Democratic Party era line that “abortion should be safe, legal, and rare in the cases of rape, incest, and threat to the life of the mother.” Alexander currently serves as chairman of the board of Christianity Today and is also on the boards of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, among other influential Christian institutions.
To no one’s surprise, Jemar Tisby is also in this camp. Tisby was educated at the well-known Reformed Theological Seminary and was once regularly featured on panels with Ligon Duncan. Often thought by many evangelicals to be the Christian equivalent of Ibram X. Kendi according to John Fea, Tisby even worked for five months at Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University (a grift of epic proportions) back in 2021.
Amy Peeler, another signer, is a Wheaton professor and an associate rector at an Episcopal church in Illinois. She’s also a contributor to On Classical Trinitarianism, a forthcoming volume edited by the most popular classical theist in Reformed Baptist circles today, Matthew Barrett.
Finally, there is Dwight McKissic, the senior pastor of an Arlington, Texas, church that is somehow still part of the SBC. He’s voting for Harris-Walz because “racism and police brutality are as evil as abortion.” Contra McKissic, the latter is an industry that has killed at least 63 million babies, and approximately 20 million black babies, in the womb since 1973. By comparison, the Manhattan Institute’s Heather Mac Donald found that in 2019, nine unarmed blacks were shot by police (a number that includes “suspects who have grabbed an officer’s gun” or who fled “from a car stop with a loaded semi-automatic pistol in their vehicle”), which destroys the narrative that police departments across the country are riven with anti-black racism.
The Idol of Abortion
We shouldn’t let Evangelicals for Harris-Walz off the hook: whether they intend to or not, they are supporting the Democrats’ deep love of abortion. In what could easily be mistaken for a Babylon Bee headline, DNC attendees can get free abortions and vasectomies. As of this writing, 25 abortions have been performed in Planned Parenthood’s RV of death, which is parked minutes from where the DNC is being held at the United Center. But as Auron MacIntyre quipped, “Mobile altars to Moloch still can’t stop the regime evangelical”—that is, the group of evangelicals who are not only voting for Harris but are enthusiastically campaigning for her. The mobile abortion news surely won’t stop them from continuing to shill for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
This completely belies the absurd notion from Evangelicals for Harris-Walz that they, supposedly just like Harris and Walz, “believe in common sense pro-life policies that protect life at ALL stages.” The briefest look at Harris’s and Walz’s record on that question indicates the exact opposite of that stance.
In what is perhaps the definitive take on Harris’s abortion radicalism, Ryan Anderson noted at First Things that she became the first sitting vice president to visit an abortion mill during her national “Fight for Reproductive Freedoms” campaign after the Dobbs decision.
As senator she voted against legislation that would have given “protections for unborn children at 20 weeks” and “required medical professionals to provide care to children who survive abortion procedures.” She was an original cosponsor of the “Women’s Health Protection Act of 2019,” which Anderson says would have overridden “state pro-life laws, including such modest measures as informed-consent requirements, parental notification, and waiting periods.” She supported taxpayer support of abortion and gutted “religious-liberty protections against abortion mandates.”
As California’s attorney general, she supported legislation that compelled pro-life pregnancy centers to advertise for abortion. Even worse, she sicked her team on David Daleiden—not Planned Parenthood—for exposing how the abortion giant sold the body parts of aborted babies for lucre.
Anderson rightly calls Harris “a hard-core ideologue” and “an abortion extremist.” “Short of coming out for killing toddlers,” he concludes, “there simply is no way to be more extreme than Kamala Harris and her party now are.”
And then there’s Tim Walz, whose goal is to make Minnesota the most extreme state when it comes to abortion. As governor, Walz seemingly dedicated every waking minute to making abortion a “fundamental right.” He signed legislation that legalized abortion “through all nine months of pregnancy.” Anderson writes that Walz also “removed virtually all health and safety protections for women, removed a 24-hour waiting period, permitted taxpayer funding of abortion, and repealed the state’s protection of children born alive after failed abortions.” This is the man Evangelicals for Harris-Walz calls “a man of excellent moral character” who possesses “deep Christian faith.”
Even if you think the GOP capitulated in principle in its 2024 platform, what Harris, Walz, and the Democrats represent is abortion on demand insanity—exhibiting a clear lust for killing babies a la the infamous Aztec sacrifices.
In light of the above, Evangelicals for Harris-Walz has the audacity to make the case that “we don’t agree with her on everything. But to be thoughtful voters we have to take into account the totality of someone’s character and positions.” The moral vacuousness, blindness, and lack of any iota of judgment couldn’t be more striking.
As Jake Meador writes at Mere Orthodoxy, Evangelicals for Harris-Walz freely gives “away their votes and endorsements while demanding nothing from the campaign they are supporting and utterly ignoring that campaign’s serious failures and shortcomings as judged by Christianity.” (And Meador makes the same critique of evangelicals who have supported the Republican Party for decades, a criticism Aaron Renn has made in more helpful ways.)
Critiquing Evangelicals for Harris-Walz, however, is in some measure an easy target. There is a far, far bigger voting block that will undoubtedly vote for Harris-Walz at a 90 percent clip: black Protestants. In the 2020 election, 91 percent of black Protestants voted for Joe Biden, and in 2016, an astonishing 96 percent voted for Hillary Clinton. In this light, to save babies, kids, and families from ruin, evangelical institutions, public theologians, and pastors should devote time and resources helping their black counterparts to stop making the same deep errors in moral judgment exhibited by Evangelicals for Harris-Walz. As I wrote in my column last week, Christians don’t have to vote for Republicans—but they simply do not have the option to vote for Democrats, the party of dismemberment, disintegration, and death.
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