An Urgent Call to All American Christians! By Marc Ensign

In less than a week, this nation will choose its 45th president. This will likely be either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. As a Christian, please consider the following: In the next 4-8 years, the president will likely appoint 3 or 4 Supreme Court justices, probably 5. Justice Scalia's seat is vacant. Justice Ginsberg is 82 years old. Justice Kennedy is 79. Justice Breyer, 77 and Justice Thomas, 67. Our next president will have the power to create a Supreme Court to support his or her ideology. What could a liberal Supreme Court do? Hillary Clinton has made it clear that she supports late-term abortion and will appoint justices to uphold Roe/Wade. She has also stated she will use the Supreme Court to go after the 2nd Amendment insisting that the court remove the individual right to bear arms. And then there's religious liberty: Under Barack Obama, Christian beliefs have come under attack. Through the manipulation of the Supreme Court and lower courts, same sex marriage is now legal in all 50 states. Christian businesses who choose to conduct their businesses according to their religious beliefs are being sued, fined and ultimately shut down. Obama has expanded the definition of discrimination to include any type of religious preference. The 'rights' of the GLTBQ community are prioritized over those of the mainstream. Hillary's staff was recently caught mocking Catholics and Evangelical Christians in a thinly-veiled bigotry saying "they must be attracted to the systematic thought and severely backward gender relations". Of the 11,000 Syrian refugees admitted to the United States this year, only 56 were Christian. Ten percent of the population of Syria is Christian, yet less than one half of one percent of those admitted are Christian. The majority are Muslim. Hillary Clinton has taken cash from Iran, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. The Saudi's are funding between 10 and 20% of her presidential campaign. Hillary intends to increase Syrian immigration exponentially. She has also stated she envisions a country with open borders, and wants to grant amnesty to those living here illegally now. Under Barack Obama, our national debt has soared to almost 20 trillion dollars and continues to climb. This debt is greater than that incurred under all previous 43 United States presidents combined. We are in bondage and our children and grandchildren will become even more vulnerable as we continue to give other countries leverage over our economy and ultimately the value of our currency. This gross mismanagement puts at risk the very foundations of American sovereignty. We cannot be 'owned' and independent. Clinton has outlined no plans to reduce this debt, instead stating that she would ensure her new spending programs are funded through higher taxes. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, an organization that advocates for debt reduction, estimates that Mrs. Clinton's spending and tax policies would essentially hold national debt on its current trajectory. Under Obama and Hillary's leadership, our military is weaker than at any time since World War II. Defense spending has fallen commensurately with the rise in entitlement spending. Hillary's defense spending plan is long on rhetoric but short on details. You may be happy with the way she handled the crisis in Benghazi but I am not. Could her judgment be trusted in a world conflict? Will we be able to regain the military might which has always been relied upon to keep the free world free? Now we ask, where does Donald Trump stand? He has stated he will appoint conservative Judges to keep the Supreme Court and lower federal courts balanced. He is pro-life. He believes strongly in religious liberty and vows to defend it. He believes in carefully controlled immigration and strong borders. He is concerned about the threat of Islamic terrorism and isn't afraid to call it what it is. He believes that American jobs should go to Americans first. He has the plans and experience to reduce our national debt to a responsible, manageable level. He pledges to rebuild our military and make America once again the strongest, most prosperous and safest country in the world. These are critical issues. Any one of them is bigger, much bigger, than the flaws in Donald Trump's personality. Trump is far from perfect. He is a man. Men are all God has in this world to work with, and he has called many imperfect men to do his work. Most Christians laud Christopher Columbus as the inspired discoverer of America. The Spirit moved upon him and yet there are many claims of grossly immoral behavior. George Washington had illegitimate children by his female slaves. I recently visited the Roosevelt mansion in the beautiful Hudson River Valley. Franklin Delano Roosevelt led our country for 4 terms through one of our toughest trials, the Great Depression. In his home are photographs and memorials to his many mistresses. We now know that the entrance to the John F. Kennedy White House was a revolving door for prostitutes and the like. And then there's Bill Clinton. I'm not excusing any of their behavior, they will have to answer for their own sins just like you and I will for ours. However, this shows that the Lord can and does work through imperfect men. Consider what he did with Saul of Tarsus! This is a huge theme of the whole bible--that God isn't limited by human sin, that he can work through polygamists like Jacob, prostitutes like Rahab and adulterers like David. In fact, many of His chosen leaders' sexual backgrounds weren't ideal. In this election, we don't have the perfect candidate either, but we have a man who God can work with. We know that He moves in mysterious ways and that only He knows the minds and hearts of men. Can we, in our righteous judgment, remember what the Savior said to the accusers of the woman taken in sin? Who is qualified to cast the first stone? In the 2012 Presidential Election, over 21 million registered Christian voters DID NOT VOTE! Barack Obama won the popular vote by a margin of only 5 million. Many couldn't get past Mitt Romney's Mormon religion. Let's not make the same mistake this time. As a group, Christians make up the largest voting bloc in America. We are more influential than any lobby or special interest group, more powerful than the liberal media. With so much at stake, how can any of us remain silent? It was Christians who founded this nation and it will be Christians who save it. Don't call yourself a Christian and refuse to help. We're not being asked to give our lives as our founding fathers did, all we need to do is vote. Can Donald Trump turn things around? Today that's unknown, but I think we have a better chance with him than Hillary. Catholic, Protestant, Evangelical, Mormon, Jehovah's Witness and all other Christian denominations, let's put our differenced aside on November 8th and join together to defeat those who are plotting our demise. Not only will we reclaim America for our children and grandchildren, but we will send a clear message to all the world that Christ is once again, the God of this nation. The good news today is that the election is still to come. We have not lost. We are the link between America's Christian past and its Christian future. Let's do our part in reclaiming America for Christ. Our founding fathers did theirs--now it's up to us. Please pass this urgently on to your Christian congregation, friends and leaders. A brother in Christ