I sometimes get messages from people from Canada, the UK, Australia, etc. asking me why so many conservative American Christians vote for the Republican party. Well, the simple answer is that American Christians are far more conservative than Christians in other countries. We vote for policies that align with the Bible in many areas: social issues, fiscal issues, foreign policy.
So, one of the things that presidents get to do when they are elected is to appoint Supreme Court justices. So let’s review Trump’s Supreme Court picks, and then see who appointed the Democrats on the Supreme Court:
Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Appointments:
- Neil Gorsuch: Nominated on January 31, 2017
- Brett Kavanaugh: Nominated on July 9, 2018
- Amy Coney Barrett: Nominated on September 26, 2020
Current Supreme Court Justices Appointed by Democratic Presidents:
- Sonia Sotomayor: Appointed by Barack Obama
- Elena Kagan: Appointed by Barack Obama
- Ketanji Brown Jackson: Appointed by Joe Biden
Now, if you ask a Canadian or a British or an Australian etc. who is on the Supreme Court, they have no idea. Usually, their outrage is just from the TV news telling them something bad about Trump’s personal character from 1942, as if American voters look to Trump for moral and spiritual leadership. (We don’t) But if they did a little bit of work beyond what the TV news tells them, they would find out why American Christians vote for Republicans that we don’t agree with on morals or religion.
First story, from The Federalist:
The U.S. Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision ruled Friday that parents are allowed to opt their children out of homosexual and “transgender” propaganda in school, noting that a school district forcing young children to be confronted with the perverse sexual program violates parents’ religious liberty.
[…]The Supreme Court decided that the parents are entitled to a preliminary injunction — meaning they can pull their children out of the instruction — as their lawsuit proceeds.
And the Trump administration reacted so:
Education Secretary Linda McMahon celebrated the opinion, stating, “The Supreme Court’s ruling in Mahmoud v. Taylor is a major win for religious liberty and parental rights. The Court rightfully held that schools can’t shut parents out or disregard their religious obligations to their children.”
It’s a 6-3 ruling, and all 3 of Trump’s appointees were on the side of parents’ rights and children’s rights. Again, I would expect “Christians” in Canada, the UK, Australia, etc. who are skeptical of American Christians to vote with the appointees of Obama and Biden. You didn’t hear anything about Obama and Biden’s character from these foreign Christians – or their policies. And that’s because the TV they watch wasn’t telling them to be outraged by them.
Second story, also from The Federalist:
On the last day of its 2024 term, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines to uphold a Texas age verification law aimed at protecting children from online obscenity.
In his majority opinion affirming the Fifth Circuit decision, Justice Clarence Thomas declared that “First Amendment leaves undisturbed States’ traditional power to prevent minors from accessing speech that is obscene from their perspective.”
“That power necessarily includes the power to require proof of age before an individual can access such speech. It follows that no person — adult or child — has a First Amendment right to access speech that is obscene to minors without first submitting proof of age,” he wrote.
Again, the 3 dissenting votes are from the judges appointed by Democrats, and these are presumable the judges that are approved of by the “Christians” in these other countries. I never get any complaints about those judges from these Christians.
Now, if you ask “Christians” in more secular left countries whether they care about parents having a right to opt their children out of LGBT indoctrination and from seeing p*rn*graphy, they’ll say “children need to be indoctrinated in LGBT dogma and see p*rn*graphy, just like they are in countries like the Canada, UK or Australia – our countries – which are far more Christian than the United States”. They just don’t think very deeply.
Here is the difference: in America, Christians actually believe the Bible, and we want our laws to reflect what the Bible teaches. In your countries, you want the laws to be made by atheists and leftists. You want to live under atheist and leftist laws. We’re just smarter about how we apply the Bible to our laws and policies than you are. We don’t let the secular leftist television journalists tell us who to vote for. We vote for results, not virtue signaling.
