Lately, I have noticed some Christians trying to attain an appearance of piety by claiming that it is more holy to not get involved in politics. These claims remind me of my early days as a Christian, when I would bring up C.S. Lewis and other easy apologetics, and people would act as if I were discussing the occult. “Only people with doubts care about evidence!” they’d cry. And today, the new heresy is Christians who care about what laws they live under.
Anyway, you regular readers will know all about this. On this blog, we talk about how different cities, states and countries make it difficult for serious Christians to do Kingdom business.
So, today, we have a new story about what happens in states where the majority of Christians think that “Jesus never cared about politics” or “Jesus was neither a Democrat nor a Republican” or “Jesus was a refugee”.
Here is an Alliance Defending Freedom article about case:
The Washington Supreme Court recently reinterpreted state law to prohibit religious organizations, including Yakima Union Gospel Mission, from only hiring individuals who share and live out its religious beliefs. State officials are threatening the mission with significant penalties for using its constitutionally protected right to hire employees who share and live the ministry’s religious beliefs.
According to their timeline, the Washington Supreme Court “effectively gutted” the Washington Law Against Discrimination’s exemption for religious employers in March 2021. This prevented Yakima Union Gospel Mission from making sure that the people who work in their Christian ministry are actually Christians.
By the way, this is the same Washington Supreme Court that went after that nice Christian florist Barronelle Stutzman, who ended up having to pay $5000 to two gay activists according to the far left NBC News. Washington is a fascist state, I don’t recommend that Christians live there.
Anyway, there’s some good news about that Yakima Union Gospel Mission case reported in the Washington Stand:
A blue state’s “anti-discrimination” law targeting Christian organizations has been struck by a federal appellate court as blatantly unconstitutional. In 2023, Union Gospel Mission of Yakima, Washington, filed a lawsuit to block enforcement of the state of Washington’s “Law Against Discrimination” (WLAD), arguing that the law’s prohibition against employment discrimination on the basis of certain protected characteristics violated the Christian group’s First Amendment rights to hire only fellow Christians who adhere to a biblical understanding of sex and marriage. The U.S. Court of Appeals agreed with Union Gospel Mission in a ruling this week.
The funny thing about this ruling is that this was from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. I used to listen to the Michael Medved Show when I first came to America, and he (a resident of Washington state) used to call this court the “9th Circus Court of Appeals”. Well, a funny thing happened to the 9th Circus Court of Appeals. They became centrist – the 9th Centrist Court of Appeals!
Here’s another 9th Circuit case, from December 2025, reported in The Federalist:
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled Friday that the University of Washington is not allowed to punish a professor for making fun of the “land acknowledgments” they tried to force on their staff.
The win at the circuit level comes after the district court sided with the school.
“A public university investigated, reprimanded, and threatened to discipline a professor for contentious statements he made in a class syllabus. The statements, which mocked the university’s model syllabus statement on an issue of public concern, caused offense in the university community,” Judge Danial Bress, an appointee of President Donald Trump, wrote in the majority opinion. “Yet debate and disagreement are hallmarks of higher education. Student discomfort with a professor’s views can prompt discussion and disapproval. But this discomfort is not grounds for the university retaliating against the professor. We hold that the university’s actions toward the professor violated his First Amendment rights.”
The court found that the school subjected computer science professor Stuart Reges to punitive employment actions and reprimand, based entirely on his speech disagreeing with their policy.
In conclusion, please be cautious about people who are urging Christians not to be involved in politics. These are either atheists or Christians who have no serious life plan consistent with Christianity. There are no exceptions. People who have Christian life plans understand that those plans cannot be carried out if their country turns into North Korea. Or Venezuela. You can’t buy apologetics books to read in those countries. You either don’t have the money or the books are banned. Owning a Bible is a capital offense in North Korea, which is officially atheist.
This is something that these “Jesus didn’t care about politics” fools never think about. They’re usually philosophers who dropped math in Grade 10 and never worked a day in the private sector. They just don’t know enough about how the world works, and that’s why they try to make a virtue out of their laziness. Either that or it’s atheists wagging their fingers at Christians, telling them not to vote, because they don’t want any restrictions on all the new atheist hobbies: sex-selection abortion, race-selection abortion, transing the kids for social media clout, etc.
Don’t listen to these people. Read Thomas Sowell, Wayne Grudem and Jay Richards, and then go vote. Put up lawn signs and car magnets. And maybe switch your monthly donations to Alliance Defending Freedom.
