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John Mark Reynolds has a three-part discussion on what evangelicals want in regard to the coming election. In Part 1, he lays out some major issues of concern to most evangelicals. In Part 2, he presents a letter, in its entirety, from an Obama supporter who is also evangelical. In Part 3, he responds to that letter.

Here is Reynold’s interaction with one portion of the Obama supporter’s letter:

You say:

But I will make my case, briefly. Whenever I’m asked how I can be pro-life and be a Democrat, my answer always seems to surprise people. It’s because neither party is pro-life enough for me. I hate abortion, and I hate the death penalty. I hate the situations that make people think abortion is the only option they have. I hate that poverty, which is mentioned far more in the Bible than most issues that Christian march to the polls for, is ignored in the Church. Neither party is fully committed to the cause of life, so I have to pick and choose, as we all do, come election day.

I say:

I don’t think this quite true. The nominee for the Democrat Party doesn’t like poverty, but Senator McCain doesn’t either.

They disagree about means to ends, but agree on the goal.

When it comes to abortion this is not true as the Democrat nominee wants to see abortion, even in terrible and hard cases, fully legal. That is out of bounds to me.

It is true that both parties contain hypocrites who do not care. There are Republicans who support free markets because they don’t care about the poor. There are Democrats who support government solutions just to get some taxpayer money. Both parties have bad citizens.

Nobody has a monopoly in good intentions. Sadly one party has nominated a pro-life candidate and the other did not, so all things are not equal in this case. It is sad that because of this situation abortion is a partisan issue. If Democrats had nominated one of their pro-life leaders, it would not be. I support your bold choice to work for Democrats for Life to bring on that good day.