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 vote for policies that align with the Bible in many areas: social issues, fiscal issues, foreign policy. We don’t vote for a person, we vote for the policies of the party.
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 what you get if you let a Democrat president choose the judges.
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
Christians care about the Supreme Court. The character of the president isn’t what goes into the Supreme Court. What goes into the Supreme Court is the judges. We’re voting for the judges. Not just the Supreme Court judges, but all the federal court judges.
Now consider what getting good Supreme Court judges gets us. Let’s look at a couple of stories.
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.”
So, this wasn’t an accident, the Republican leaders are celebrating this judgement. The Republicans appointed the judges, and then when they got the decision that their voters wanted, they were 100% behind it. They wanted to deliver this result for the voters. That’s what the voters wanted. We wanted results.
It’s a 6-3 ruling, and all 3 of Trump’s appointees were on the side of parents’ rights and children’s rights. All 3 nominees by Democrat presidents opposed it. So, I hope that people in Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand etc. can understand this. If Christians vote Republican in America, they get 3 judges who support religious liberty and parents’ rights. If Christians vote Democrat, then they get 3 judges who oppose religious liberty and parents’ rights. It’s that simple. That’s how we decided. We decide to get the results.
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 Trump nominees voted to protect children, but the 3 dissenting votes are from the judges appointed by Democrat presidents. I don’t know what people in other countries want. Do they want to protect the children? Or do they want to put the children at risk? American Christians voted to protect the children. We voted to get results, and we got the results we wanted.
American Christians vote for results that are good for religious liberty, parents’ rights and children’s safety. Maybe the people in these other countries who don’t like those results have also heard that our Supreme Court reversed the decision that made abortion legal through all 9 months. All the Republican judges voted against abortion, but all the Democrat judges voted for abortion. Americans Christians voted for the pro-life laws and policies, and we got the pro-life laws and policies. Maybe people in these other countries don’t want that, but American Christians did. And we got it. That actually happened here.
UPDATE: I noticed that someone very very important shared this post on social media, so here are a few recent news stories to let you know what American Christians DO NOT want in America.
We do not want this in America:
WINTERY KNIGHT 
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