How now shall we vote?

Each week, The World and Everything in It features a “Culture Friday” segment, in which Executive Producer Nick Eicher discusses the latest cultural news with John Stonestreet, president of the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Here is a summary of this week’s conversation.

As Donald Trump edges closer to winning the GOP nomination for president, a new debate has emerged over protest voting, or Republicans’ voting for third-party or write-in candidates in the general election. John Stonestreet addressed the emerging #nevertrump movement in our conversation this week.

“This is the strangest election in our lifetime, and it’s changed the scene,” Stonestreet said. “When was the last time somebody could say a good thing about Planned Parenthood and still become a Republican nominee? That’s enough to say that the game has changed.”

Some Republicans who don’t support Trump still think Trump would be the lesser of two evils next to Democrat Hillary Clinton. But others say they can’t in good conscience vote for a secular pragmatist like Trump. Stonestreet and I wondered what the late theologian and Prison Fellowship ministry founder Chuck Colson would have said.

“I think what Colson would’ve said [is], Christians have a responsibility to vote, and we have a responsibility to vote with a Christian worldview in mind,” Stonestreet said. “And that has to do with moral character, not necessarily whether they’re a Christian or not. Chuck once said he would vote for a competent non-Christian that would defend marriage and religious liberty over an incompetent Christian who wouldn’t.”

Stonestreet did urge Christian voters to beware of Trump’s utopian fantasy: “If there’s a candidate saying, ‘Hey, y’all, I got it. I’m going to fix it all,’ that’s a big warning sign.”

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