Radio host says Christians voting for non-Christians unbiblical

[Soldier4Christ]

Radio host says Christians voting for non-Christians unbiblical

A radio talk-show host who describes himself as a "recovering Republican" argues that Christians have a "cut-and-dried" directive from the Bible not to vote for a non-believer.

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney won the endorsement Monday of Senator Judd Gregg (R-New Hampshire). New Hampshire is a key primary state where Romney is currently leading. Romney has also garnered the endorsements of several high-profile evangelical Christians, including Dr. Bob Jones III, Mark DeMoss and Jay Sekulow.

Former Republican National Committee official John Lofton is co-host of The American View, a weekly radio show syndicated by Radio America. He contends Romney and other non-Christian candidates fail to meet scriptural requirements for men who occupy God-ordained civil government offices.

"This is ridiculous on its face to say that Christians can vote for non-Christians. It's Christ denial, its something that's very serious," he argues. "And in fact, in a way things have gotten even worse by saying that religion doesn't matter. Well, that's the same as saying, whether they know it or not, that Christ doesn't matter. He is the King of kings, he is the Lord of lords -- which means Lord over politics, and no Christian can be complicit in having an unbeliever, who God calls wicked, rule over us."

He says by voting for a candidate like Romney, whose faith teaches that Jesus is the spiritual brother of Lucifer, Christians are in effect putting their desire to win an election and defeat Hillary Clinton above their commitment to God's Word. Lofton also recently criticized National Right to Life founder Dr. Jack Willke for endorsing Romney even though the Mormon church teaches that "some exceptional circumstances may justify an abortion," including rape, incest, fetal deformities, and threats to "the life or health of the mother."

[Shammu]

If they believe in abortion, partial abortion, stem cell research, gay rights, satan, and don't believe in the Trinity, they have lost my vote. There that narrows the field for me.

[HisDaughter]

Exactly Dreamweaver!
 I'm more curious about this quote, "God-ordained civil government offices."
They want to take God out of and off of everything unless it suits them! 
And I am I wrong in seeing something else in this article?  Do I see a danger of Christians being forbidden to vote in a future election if there are no Christians running?  I'm reading between the lines here.  Anyone else see that?

[Soldier4Christ]

Yes, I do see that. There are some church leaders now that already forbid their constituients to vote in any election irregardless of who is or isn't running. They advocate the teaching that Christians should be a part of anything of this world including politics. They miss the point that we are fighting more than just the things of this world when we place our vote. We have had some of these people come here and argue this point extensively and in doing so are actually participating in the politics that they are preaching against.

One thing to keep in mind here is that even if there is no Christian on the ballot that we can still do write-ins. If enough Christians take a stand on this we can make a difference.