Voting as complicity
A Christian who votes for a morally flawed candidate shares in his sins and is aligned with him unless he publicly denounces what he dislikes about that candidate.
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What it includes
Holds that supporting a candidate makes the voter, and especially church leaders, morally complicit in the candidate's conduct. Silence or private criticism is treated as 'bystanding' that ruins Christian witness, so public denunciation is required to escape the guilt.
Does not include
The view that voting is a prudential choice between imperfect options made by conscience, or freely chosen criticism of a candidate's conduct that is not made a test of the voter's own guilt or witness.
How it sounds
- complicity and bystanding
- unless they speak up, they are aligned
- deconstructs witness from the inside
- say publicly what they dislike