Former Super Bowl champion Benjamin Watson, as well as AND Campaign founder and president Justin Giboney, had a disagreement this week with conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey regarding whether Christians should vote for a political party that supports abortion. The exchange arose in response to a tweet from former president Barack Obama.
“It’s been a year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Since then, 14 states have banned most abortions, leaving millions of women and girls with nowhere to turn for the care they need,” Obama tweeted on June 24, the anniversary of Roe’s reversal. “And yet, there are reasons to hope. After Roe v. Wade was overturned, voters in Michigan, California, and Vermont helped enshrine abortion rights in their state constitutions. And governors in states like Nevada, Hawaii, and Pennsylvania have signed executive orders to protect abortion access.”
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Obama called on his followers to fight to protect abortion access by volunteering, voting and supporting organizations such as Planned Parenthood.
Allie Beth Stuckey: ‘Evil Man, Evil Ideology, Evil Party’
Conservative Christian commentator Allie Beth Stuckey retweeted Obama, commenting, “Evil man, evil ideology, evil party. Christians have no excuse to ever support these people. There is no ‘both sides’ argument.”
Watson responded to Obama’s tweet and to Stuckey’s retweet, criticizing both. “Mr President,” he said to Obama, “There is no ‘hope’ in denying the most basic human right. There is no ‘hope’ in categorizing ~30k children saved as detrimental. True hope offers every opportunity for flourishing while first protecting life so that it CAN flourish. Hope doesn’t discriminate.”
Justin Giboney, co-founder and president of the AND Campaign, took issue with Stuckey’s implication that Christians should never vote for Democratic candidates. “In other words,” he said, “‘We get abortion partially right so you must agree with us on everything even when our leaders show a lack of concern for the lives of immigrants, Black men killed by authorities, pregnant Black women, the uninsured poor and create laws to make it harder to vote.’”
In other words, “We get abortion partially right so you must agree with us on everything even when our leaders show a lack of concern for the lives of immigrants, Black men killed by authorities, pregnant Black women, the uninsured poor and create laws to make it harder to vote.” https://t.co/08M60HxRH1
— Justin Giboney (@JustinEGiboney) June 25, 2023
“Thou shall vote Republican is not in the Bible,” Giboney continued. “I’ve voted for both parties and have plenty of criticisms of Democrats, including abortion and immigration. But this narrative is wrong and extremely disrespectful to millions of faithful Black Christians.”
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