Council Grove Christian Church

7/29/26

Servants of God,
 
“Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’
Or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’”
-Isaiah 45:10
Should Kansas amend the state constitution to allow citizens to vote on who serves on the state’s highest court? Do you love God? Do you love your neighbor? Are you willing to think for yourself being guided by the Word of God and the leadership of the Holy Spirit? Then think about how a Christian should vote on the issue of abortion. No matter what misleading words are spoken from either side on the issue of how Kansas should select Supreme Court Justices, this vote is about abortion.
Hear this! It is about abortion! The great battle for human life and dignity continues to rage. The August 4 primary question is actually whether the political left will continue uncontested control of the makeup of the state’s highest court. Look at who is funding the “No” vote campaign. If your political views accord with Planned Parenthood, then the “No” vote should be your choice. If you think that the citizens of Kansas should have the possibility to place a pro-life justice on the Kansas Supreme Court, then “Yes” should be your choice. Everything else is noise and deception. Sorry, but it is not a complicated issue.
Christians cannot be on the side of the murder of helpless, unborn human beings. Please do not be fooled by all the high sounding talk about how the current process is dominated by legal experts and disinterested persons. No one who knows anything about politics should fall for that nonsense. The group in power is afraid the people of Kansas might choose conservative Supreme Court justices. It is that simple.
Sadly the pro-“Yes” forces and the pro-“No” forces both want to shade the truth. Since the disastrous “Value them Both” vote that occurred a few months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Kansas conservatives have decided to play the long game. It might take several years they reason, but eventually getting conservative judges on the Supreme Court will change the decisions of the court regarding such issues as abortion, the death penalty and excessive spending on the failing government schools.
The “No” vote is being funded by outfits like Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, trial lawyers, George Soros, the National Education Association (NEA) and other deep-pocket left-leaning groups. I cannot help but laugh at the commercials that feign horror that “big-money” could become involved in Kansas politics. The “No” vote side reports spending many times more than the “Yes” vote then whines about big money influencing the issue.  What bald-faced hypocrisy. Thinking Christians will understand that plenty of money will be spent on both sides of this question. Do a little investigation. The “No” vote is spending by far the greater amount.
Politics must not be the Christian’s primary tool for changing culture, but Christian voters must be discerning and responsible about how we cast our vote. Ask yourself which system will most likely honor God and be of most benefit to your neighbor. Neither vote will yield a perfect result, but one holds more promise to give regular citizens input into how the judges will be selected. One vote will give elected representatives input on how the selection process will eventually occur. One vote will more likely let you, the voter, examine the background of the nominees—the “Yes” vote.
If you are fine with lawyers selecting the judges they may have to argue before in court, and if you are fine with the current system that has never resulted in any judge up for retention to be removed, then you have the option to vote to keep that left-leaning insider system in place. I simply do not think that “experts” on the political left should have a stranglehold on who sits on the Kansas Supreme Court.  
I know that it takes a moral people—men and women whose consciences have been shaped by the gospel of Jesus Christ—to give proper moral input into any political system. Weak churches with poorly taught members will easily fall for emotional manipulation by the forces of evil. Christians whose minds are set on things above (Colossians 3:1-4) also know that we are responsible to do everything we can to honor God here and now. We care about how the least and last and lost are treated by human government. We rightly hate the shedding of innocent blood, but we also hate taxes that strangle the life out of families and that school systems steal the dignity of children by failing to teach them truth. We hate systems, political and otherwise that steal, kill and destroy because those things are the work of the devil.
There is no such thing as moral neutrality. Of course, there are many complicated issues, but Christians are called to live to the glory of God in every way possible—even to the point of choosing wisely about such mundane things as eating and drinking (1 Corinthians 10:31). So please, think clearly (biblically) about all of life. Learn to discern truth from error, and work hard to keep your mind clear about the simplest of things. Things like human reproduction and the plain fact that human males begat human beings and human females give birth to human beings (Isaiah 45:10). A Kansas Supreme Court that claims to protect the “choice” of a pregnant woman by blessing the cold-blooded execution of the helpless human in her womb needs to be changed. Sooner is better. I say let it begin on August 4 with a majority “Yes” vote.
Blessings,
Pastor John
Coram Deo