Doug Wilson Is Wrong: You Must Not Sit Out Election 2012
It's not about "the lesser of two evils", but "the better of two choices". And one choice is very bad indeed.
by Rod D. Martin
April 17, 2012
Pastor Doug Wilson, a not-insignificant leader in the Reformed community, counsels his followers to sit out Election 2012, because Mitt Romney doesn't live up to his standards.
Well, I can't think of many of my standards Mitt meets either. But Doug is wrong, and dangerously so.
The argument (this year and every other year of his ministry) goes something like this. We are presented with a choice between the lesser of two evils. Of course we're against hard-core evil, and there certainly is a plank in the Democrat's eye, but we're vastly more concerned with the speck in the Republican's eye. We didn't get our way in the primary, or in other years our third party Don Quixote ran smack-dab into his windmill, and we're perfectly happy to let the worse guy win until the world conforms to us.
Perhaps another way to understand this point of view is to rephrase it in pastor-speak. "We're against adultery, but we're not going to preach against adultery because, a…