Democrat Quits Politics, Says Party’s Agenda Is Incompatible With Scripture: ‘I Have Compromised For Too Long’

[Hol]

It is nearly axiomatic in the American church to say that Jesus is not a Democrat or a Republican. Pastors say it from pulpits. Christians post it on social media. It serves as a kind of theological courtesy—a way of signaling that one’s faith transcends partisan affiliation. And it’s true that God transcends politics.

But somewhere along the way, a caution against political idolatry became a conviction that Jesus hovers above it all, equally at ease and equally uncomfortable with everyone; that all platforms are flawed enough to be equivalent, and that sincerity is sufficient to resolve whatever tension exists between your faith and your politics.

Michigan State Rep. Karen Whitsett, a lifelong Democrat from Detroit, now says that’s not true. On March 2, she announced she will not seek re-election and will never run for public office again. The reason, she said, has nothing to do with polling or political strategy.

“This is not a political calculation—it’s a spiritual decision,” Whitsett said.

She then went further, naming the Democratic Party itself as incompatible with her Christian faith—not a particular candidate, not a single vote, but the platform.

“For me, it is impossible to be a faithful follower of Jesus Christ while remaining a member of the Democratic Party as it exists today,” Whitsett said. “I cannot reconcile that platform with Scripture.”

The reflex when someone claims progressive political priorities are incompatible with the Christian faith is to shoot the messenger, but that’s more difficult to do in this case. She is not a conservative commentator, Fox News regular, or Jerry Falwell acolyte. She’s a black, female Democrat. By every demographic measure, she is precisely the kind of voter the Democratic Party has long claimed and counted on.

But now she says she can’t be a Christian and a Democrat, and she explained why.

“That conviction includes the issues I cannot reconcile with Scripture: abortion, the normalization of the gay lifestyle, and the push to redefine gender,” Whitsett said. “I have compromised my relationship with Jesus for too long, and I’m grateful God did not give up on me. He gave me time to repent, turn, and be fully devoted to Him.”

The reaction from her party was swift. Michigan Democratic Party Chair Curtis Hertel offered a response that began simply: “Good riddance.”

https://harbingersdaily.com/democrat-quits-politics-says-partys-agenda-is-incompatible-with-scripture-i-have-compromised-for-too-long/

 

[Everlasting Life]

It's been my prayer that God would come alongside Democratic leaders (and Republicans...remembering God has permitted current leadership and believers are called to pray for them), to cause our leaders to repent of sin and put faith in Jesus.

Additionally to give courage, strength and guidance to those who are seeing that which is wrong and stand for that which is right. And to be mightily protected and preserved against ungodly temptations and pressures. Choosing between faith in Jesus with His future rewards can be difficult when power of this world, money and luxuries physically surround and easily present. That was what Moses had to do, and he willingly forfeited the immediate and temporary for the far better eternal future with Jesus Christ.

There is no middle ground. As the response from her party showcases (may they be impacted by this woman's example and move into everlasting life through faith in Jesus as well ).

But ultimately, it seems she's exhibiting who she really is....a child of God through faith in Jesus. Like the rest of God's House, His church, we are not of this world, but passing pilgrims and ambassadors for Christ, heading to our real home with God. May she find ample support in her family of Christ.

Praise God, He's still working!

 

[mattfivefour]

This tells you all you need to know about the Democratic party at this point in history, when an honorable, hard-working longtime Democrat politician says she's leaving the Party because it is now anti-God in its beliefs and the Michigan Democratic Party Chairperson says: “Good riddance.”

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

It's been my prayer that God would come alongside Democratic leaders (and Republicans...remembering God has permitted current leadership and believers are called to pray for them), to cause our leaders to repent of sin and put faith in Jesus.

Additionally to give courage, strength and guidance to those who are seeing that which is wrong and stand for that which is right. And to be mightily protected and preserved against ungodly temptations and pressures. Choosing between faith in Jesus with His future rewards can be difficult when power of this world, money and luxuries physically surround and easily present. That was what Moses had to do, and he willingly forfeited the immediate and temporary for the far better eternal future with Jesus Christ.

There is no middle ground. As the response from her party showcases (may they be impacted by this woman's example and move into everlasting life through faith in Jesus as well ).

But ultimately, it seems she's exhibiting who she really is....a child of God through faith in Jesus. Like the rest of God's House, His church, we are not of this world, but passing pilgrims and ambassadors for Christ, heading to our real home with God. May she find ample support in her family of Christ.

Praise God, He's still working!

2 Chronicles 7:14 came to mind while I was reading your post.

14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14, KJV


and then, as always when I think of the above, the following

1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
5 I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
Psalm 32:1-5, KJV

and

5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
1 John 1:5-10, KJV

and

16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
John 3:16-21, KJV