Romney is obviously a better choice than any Democrat on every level and by any measure. If he is the nominee I think after a year of competing against the Democrats his genuine values will be manifest and he could win. If he were say, a Baptist, I could support him. I am aware of his flip flops on important issues but I think he has flopped into the correct positions now and the conservative wing of the party would hold him accountable to those positions.
The other candidates are either more liberal, less accomplished, less qualified, or most importantly less likely to be elected.
Dr. Grudem's observations are worth consideration as is Governor Romney.
“If as evangelicals we are going to support the principles on which our nation was founded, then we need to defend the principles of religious liberty.”
I agree. And that includes my right as an individual voter to use whatever criteria I wish to vote.
Romney is a flip-flopper, and I therefore suspect his core beliefs regarding abortion, gay marriage, etc.
Additionally, we are not just electing a Chairman of the Board, which Romney is fully qualified to do; we are electing a Commander in Chief, and Romney has zero experience or background to take on that role in the war against Islamic jihadists.
I’m getting very tired of the underlying message in these Pro-Romney articles, that Christians SHALL NOT consider a candidate’s belief system.
Leave the haranguing against Christians out of these pro-Romney articles, and I’ll leave Mormon issues out of my anti-Romney responses. I’d still have plenty of fodder against him.
Dr. Grudem is absolutely correct. I’m a staunch evangelical and would vote for an atheist if they were strict constructionists on the constitution. I voted for Jimmy Carter at age 18 in part because of his professed evangelical beliefs, and he turned out to be a total disaster.
It takes courage to judge a man not on his religion but on how he actually lives his life when his religious beliefs do not match one's own. It is easier to simply judge him a heretic and dismiss everything about him as being heretical and bad.
I thank God there are wise and gracious men like Wayne Grudem who are willing to take an unpopular public stand, who will judge the heart and not the outward appearance.