Kevin Berger

Voting the Democratic platform today places Christians in opposition to both biblical truth and the Framers’ design. The Democratic agenda advances abortion on demand, redefinition of sex and marriage, expansive state power over conscience and family, and economic redistribution that treats private property as a public resource. These positions clash with Scripture’s clear teaching that humans bear God’s image from conception (Psalm 139; Jeremiah 1:5), that marriage is the lifelong union of one man and one woman (Genesis 2; Matthew 19), and that rulers exist to punish evil and protect the innocent rather than remake human nature. Madison warned in Federalist No. 10 that pure majoritarian democracy cannot cure the mischiefs of faction: a majority united by passion or interest will readily sacrifice the rights of others and the permanent good of the community. The growing DSA influence inside the Democratic Party that is now the largest socialist organization in U.S. history, with candidates advancing from local races to high profile primaries illustrates exactly this dynamic. Socialist factions seek to subordinate individual rights of life, property, and religious liberty to collective ends. Foreign born and second generation candidates have increased within Democratic ranks; while the Constitution permits naturalized citizens to serve, many advance policies that prioritize transnational or ideological commitments over the ordered liberty and national cohesion the Federalist Papers defended. Progressive Christians compound the problem by twisting Scripture and reinterpreting prohibitions on sexual immorality, denying the unborn’s status, and subordinating natural law to contemporary equity claims and thereby denying fundamental truths the Church has affirmed for centuries. Christians cannot baptize this platform without abandoning both the gospel and the constitutional order meant to restrain factional tyranny.