(OPINION) ETH – Grace Community Church Pastor John MacArthur recently raised some eyebrows as he dove in the deep end of politics stating that “any real” Christian will vote for President Donald Trump come November because they cannot support the policy agenda of the Democratic Party.
This statement came in a recent interview with the Falkirk Center at Liberty University in August, in a phone conversation. During the interview, MacArthur stated that he and the president “talked a little bit about why, certainly from a biblical standpoint, Christians could not vote Democratic.” He stated:
“There’s no way that a Christian can affirm the slaughter of babies, homosexual activity, homosexual marriage, or any kind of gross immorality,” MacArthur asserted. “No way we could stand behind a candidate who was affirming transgender behavior, which of course is really the ‘reprobate mind’ of Romans 1.”
MacArthur claims that the told Trump that abortion and LGBT matters “aren’t even political,” but rather “these things are biblical; these things are laid down by the Word of God.” MacArthur told Trump that “‘Any real, true believer is going to be on your side in this election,’ because it’s not just an individual, it’s an entire set of policies that Christians cannot in any way affirm,”