I'm a pastor who hates abortion, opposes gay marriage -- and is voting for Harris

The GOP I loved would have never chosen as its nominee the adulterous, childish, habitually lying and criminally convicted Donald Trump.

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So why, then, am I, the senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in Arlington, Texas, for 41 years, voting for the Democrat, Vice President Kamala Harris, for president? As I wrote Wednesday on X, I’m voting for character and competence and for the candidate who “has the capacity and bandwidth to demonstrate respect and high regard” for everybody made in the image of God. Republican Donald Trump doesn’t have Harris’ character, her competence or her capacity.

To be clear, my opinions on the issues mentioned above haven’t wavered. I still believe in the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman and feel just as passionately about protecting life in the womb as I ever have. Democrats haven’t changed their stance on those two issues, either. But Republicans have changed. I don’t even recognize the Republican Party anymore. This year, for example, the GOP’s platform abandoned its long-standing call for a national abortion ban and removed the language that says marriage is “between one man and one woman, and is the foundation for a free society.”

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As we look to elect a leader for the next four years, I think it’s vitally important that we choose someone worth following. A May 2020 investigation conducted by ABC News found “at least 54 criminal cases in which Trump was invoked in direct connection with violent acts, threats of violence or allegations of assault.” The individuals responsible for these acts were predominantly white men, and their victims came from multiple minority groups. In that May 2020 report, ABC News said it “could not find a single criminal case filed in federal or state court where an act of violence or threat was made in the name of President Barack Obama or President George W. Bush.”

But those 54 cases are nothing compared to what came a few months later. On Jan. 6, 2021, when Trump spoke at the Ellipse and kicked off what he insultingly calls a “day of love” at the U.S. Capitol. But we all saw Jan. 6 for what it was: a day of chaos, violence and upheaval. Nobody can reasonably believe that a President Harris would (explicitly or implicitly) incite her supporters to commit violence.

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https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/evangelical-abortion-same-sex-marriage-harris-rcna178294