the issue of the day

Sometimes I catch Moody’s call-in program “Chris Fabry Live” while I make my husband’s lunch. Sometimes I turn it off in frustration. Sometimes it’s not a topic that interests me so it just becomes background noise. But the other day, I turned it up, and later downloaded the podcast to hear it again.

Kimberly Cash Tate articulated the difference between the two top candidates in the upcoming election so clearly–and from the perspective of an African-American woman. It’s clear she votes according to the title of the book she’s written: More Christian Than African American.

I’m specifically talking about life because to me that is the issue of the day. Are we going to stand for life or are we going to continue to shed innocent blood and let the land be polluted with that, which the Bible speaks against? I don’t think that McCain or the Republican party is equal to God or a biblical agenda, no not at all. There are a lot of things about the Republican platform that I don’t agree with, there are a lot of things about the Democrat platform that I agree with. But this issue to me biblically is the issue of our day…

We have to go with where they are, what they have done in the past, and what they have said they are going to do. When we look at Obama’s record, he has been pro partial birth abortion, he has voted against the “Born Alive Infant Protection Act”… He has had a radical stand. He takes it all the way through the ninth month and even when you’re out of the womb not wanting to provide medical care. That’s his past record. Then he said in addition to that that he’s going to see that this “Freedom of Choice” act is enacted. He said on the Saddleback forum that when a baby gets human rights is above his pay grade. He didn’t want to talk about it before that audience. He has said before Planned Parenthood he will not yield on this issue of a woman’s right to have an abortion whenever she desires to have one.

On the other hand you have McCain who said that for 25 years he’s had a pro-life record, he’s going to be a pro-life president, he’s going to appoint pro-life justices. So we have to vote based on the record, what they have said they are going to do and what they are going to stand for. There is just too much at stake. There have been forty million babies dead. In the black community twelve hundred a day, overall almost four thousand a day. This is a huge life and death issue and if Christians don’t stand in the gap for the unborn—just like we needed people to stand in the gap for slaves—who’s going to stand in the gap? There’s just too much at stake to me to look at it any other way.

-Kimberly Cash Tate (author of More Christian Than African American), guest on Chris Fabry Live, September 4, 2008 (transcribed from podcast)

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