{"id":2282915,"date":"2024-06-24T19:51:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T23:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/our-allegiance-is-not-to-them-trump-encourages-christians-to-vote\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T19:55:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T23:55:47","slug":"our-allegiance-is-not-to-them-trump-encourages-christians-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/our-allegiance-is-not-to-them-trump-encourages-christians-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Our Allegiance Is Not to Them\u2019: Trump Encourages Christians to Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Four-allegiance-is-not-to-them-trump-encourages-christians-to-vote%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2282915&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President Donald Trump, addressing a conference in Washington D.C., urged Christian voters\u200d to participate in the\u200c upcoming elections, highlighting\u200d that the Biden administration is a threat \u200dto Christian values. At the Faith &#038; Freedom Coalition&#8217;s &#8220;Road to Majority&#8221; conference, Trump emphasized\u2063 the importance of an honest electoral process and criticized Biden&#8217;s handling of religious issues, pointing out the alleged targeting of Catholics and\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-remember-the-48th-annual-march-for-life\/\" title=\"Americans remember the 48th annual March for Life\">pro-life advocates<\/a>\u200b by federal agencies. Trump also condemned Biden&#8217;s support for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-three-quarters-of-catholics-believe-pro-abortion-authorities-should-not-receive-communion\/\" title=\"POLL: Three-Quarters Of Catholics Believe Pro-Abortion Authorities Should Not Receive Communion\">policies contrary<\/a> to Catholic teachings, despite Biden identifying\u200c as Catholic. Trump \u200cpromised\u2062 to defend Judeo-Christian values \u2063and reverse what he considers harmful\u200d policies enacted by Democrats, \u2064while also committing to create a task force to \u2062fight\u200c anti-Christian biases if \u2064re-elected.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/news\/\">  News <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/washingtonstand\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/washingtonstand\/%20\"><span>S.A. McCarthy, The Washington Stand<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   June 24, 2024 at 3:19pm <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump is calling on Christians to vote in November, warning that incumbent Joe Biden\u2019s administration poses a serious threat to Christian values.<\/p>\n<p>At the Faith &#038; Freedom Coalition\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/kOotP_Ys92k?si=9lNCZvA4da29RGBU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Road to Majority<\/a>\u201d conference in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, Trump\u00a0told\u00a0conservative Christians in attendance, \u201cWe have to get out there, we have to vote, we have to make sure everything\u2019s honest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Referring to voter fraud, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-decided-running-mate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a> reminded his audience that Americans can \u201cpolice\u201d their votes.\u201d He said, \u201cIf I knew there was not going to be corruption, if I knew that everything would be honorable and honest as it should be, I\u2019d stop campaigning right now, we\u2019d have this thing won.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The presumptive Republican nominee for president continued to tout the work done by the Faith &#038; Freedom Coalition, saying, \u201cYou are truly, and I mean, indispensable. This is a great group of people and you\u2019re warriors, in the truest sense.\u201d However, Trump said, \u201cThe evangelicals and the Christians, they don\u2019t vote as much as they should. \u2026 They go to church every Sunday, but they don\u2019t vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He proceeded to urge American Christians to vote \u201cjust this time,\u201d asking, \u201cDo you know the power you have if you would vote?\u201d Trump promised to \u201cstraighten things out\u201d if reelected and told Christian voters, \u201cWorking side by side, we\u2019re going to defeat crooked Joe Biden, we\u2019re going to defend our values, and we\u2019re going to make America great again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Borrowing a famous line from his former reality show \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/another-legal-battle-trump-calls-apprentice-biopic-garbage-threatens-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Apprentice<\/a>,\u201d he added, \u201cWe need Christian voters to turn out in the largest numbers ever to tell crooked Joe Biden \u2026 \u2018Joe, you\u2019re fired. You\u2019re fired, Joe! Get out of here, Joe. You\u2019re no good, you\u2019ve been the worst president ever, you\u2019re fired, Joe. Get out.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe radical left is trying to shame Christians, silence you, demoralize you, and they want to keep you out of politics. They don\u2019t want you to vote, that\u2019s why you have to vote,\u201d Trump said, continuing, \u201cIf you vote, we cannot lose. They don\u2019t want you to vote. But Christians cannot afford to sit on the sidelines. If Joe Biden gets in, Christianity will not be safe in a nation with no borders, no laws, no freedom, no future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou see what they\u2019re doing?\u201d he asked. Comparing the Biden administration\u2019s actions to those of a \u201cthird-world dictator,\u201d Trump went on to note that the incumbent president has violated and undermined the rule of law to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-cruz-obama-biden-doj-was-politicized-and-weaponized-against-opponents\/\" title=\"Sen. Cruz: Obama-Biden DOJ was \u2018politicized and weaponized\u2019 against opponents\">target\u00a0political opponents<\/a>, has aggressively\u00a0prosecuted\u00a0pro-life Americans, and has\u00a0promoted\u00a0\u201cradical gender ideology\u201d in schools, concluding, \u201cIt\u2019s a disgrace what\u2019s happened to our country in such a short period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He pointed to the Biden administration\u2019s targeting of American Catholics and asked, \u201cWhat\u2019s going on with Catholics? They are being persecuted. Catholics. What is that all about?\u201d Under Biden, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-fbi-focus-radical-left-morons-right-not-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI<\/a> has been accused of illegally\u00a0spying\u00a0on American Catholics, relying on left-wing think tanks to declare Catholics \u201cracially or ethnically motivated violent extremists\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/purported-fbi-document-suggests-agency-targeting-catholics-attend-latin-mass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">memo leaked<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Should pastors encourage church members to vote?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Biden\u2019s Justice Department has also\u00a0targeted\u00a0pro-life Catholics like <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonstand.com\/news\/unnecessary-and-unlawful-prolife-group-sues-doj-for-targeting-prolife-advocate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Houck<\/a>, who was accused of a Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act violation. Houck had previously agreed to cooperate with prosecutors if charges were filed and he was quickly acquitted in court, but not before approximately two dozen FBI agents armed with automatic weapons and riot gear raided his home and arrested him in front of his wife and children.<\/p>\n<p>Although Biden claims to be Catholic, numerous leaders in the Catholic Church have <a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/cardinal-castigates-cafeteria-catholic-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">condemned\u00a0his open opposition<\/a> to Catholic moral teaching, including on such subjects as abortion, same-sex marriage, and transgenderism. Trump said that Biden may have \u201cno idea\u201d what\u2019s going on, adding, \u201cI don\u2019t think he knows he\u2019s alive, if you want to know the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason the radical left will always come after religious believers is simple,\u201d Trump said, \u201cbecause they know that our allegiance is not to them, our allegiance is not to them. Our allegiance is to our country and our allegiance is to our Creator. And we do not answer to the bureaucrats in Washington, we answer to God in Heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former president said, \u201cYou\u2019re not even allowed to say that anymore. Today, if you say that, they want to arrest you.\u201d Referring to a recent Louisiana law requiring the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ten-commandments-must-displayed-public-school-classrooms-according-new-state-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ten Commandments<\/a> to be displayed in public schools, Trump laughed and said, \u201cThey think it\u2019s such a bad thing. I said, \u2018Has anyone read these? Though shalt not steal, thou shalt not\u2019 \u2014 I mean, has anybody read this incredible stuff? It\u2019s just incredible. They don\u2019t want it to go up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump also touted his presidential record and said, \u201cIn my first term, I defended Judeo-Christian heritage like no president in the history of our country. And with your help, I will continue to fight for our values and our civilization for four more years in the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cWe\u2019re going to straighten it out, we\u2019re going to straighten it out fast,\u201d highlighting his defense of religious liberty and freedom of speech, as well as his support for conscience protections in the medical field and his role in appointing U.S. Supreme Court justices who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/2-months-scotus-overturned-roe-v-wade-abortion-numbers-show-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overturned Roe v. Wade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to these justices,\u201d he said, \u201cwe have also achieved what the pro-life movement fought to get for 49 years and we\u2019ve gotten abortion out of the federal government and back to the states.\u201d He added, \u201cIf the radical Democrat extremes get their way, they will have a federal law for abortion to rip the baby out of the womb in the seventh, eighth, and ninth month and even execute the baby after birth.\u201d Trump also noted that Democrats \u201care the radical ones on this issue, far and away the radical ones, not us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cAbove all, in the Republican Party, we will always support family, babies, life \u2014 very, very important to the Republican Party. By contrast, Joe Biden is weaponizing the Justice Department to viciously persecute pro-life activists and Americans of faith.\u201d Referring to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/judge-sentences-75-year-old-woman-praying-abortion-clinic-taunts-horrified-husband-christian-faith-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pro-life Americans imprisoned<\/a> by the Biden administration, Trump said, \u201cThis is just crazy. We\u2019re going to get that taken care of immediately, first day. But let\u2019s call these brave Americans what they really are: it\u2019s persecuted Christians, that\u2019s what they are, they\u2019re persecuted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always say we\u2019re a nation in decline, we\u2019re a nation in really serious, serious decline,\u201d Trump lamented. He pledged, \u201cBut we will rapidly review the cases of every political prisoner who\u2019s been unjustly victimized by the Biden regime \u2026 so we can get them out of the gulags and back to their families where they belong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former president also repeated his promise to form a \u201cfederal task force on fighting anti-Christian biases.\u201d He explained, \u201cIt\u2019s mission will be to investigate all forms of illegal discrimination, harassment, persecution against Christians in America. \u2026 Never again will the federal government be used to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/betsy-mccaughey-court-and-congress-hammer-out-truce-on-gay-rights\/\" title=\"Betsy McCaughey: Court and Congress Hammer Out Truce on Gay Rights\">target religious believers<\/a>, Americans of faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Matt Carpenter, director of FRC Action, told The Washington Stand, \u201cThe former president is right to remind Christians they ultimately answer to God. As much as the current administration might want us to think we answer to their judges and prosecutors, Christians know who ultimately is in charge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carpenter went on to note, \u201cI don\u2019t think in 2020, when these two candidates first met in the presidential election, Christian voters thought for one minute the DOJ would be arresting pro-lifers for praying in abortion clinics or trying to erase Resurrection Sunday with \u2018Transgender Day of Visibility,\u2019\u201d he pointed out. \u201cLike the sons of Issachar, I think many of them understand the times we are living in and are ready to send a message to Washington, D.C. in a few months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This article appeared originally on <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonstand.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Stand<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"author-info-45743\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/washingtonstand\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label for=\"more-info-tab-radio-45743\">More<span> Biographical Information<\/span><\/label><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-45743\">Recent<span> Posts<\/span><\/label><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-45743\" onclick=\"if( typeof grecaptcha=='undefined' ) { let cap_s=document.createElement( 'script' ); cap_s.src='https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js?render=6LeJFcsUAAAAAPsIEqvB1EebWbZfqRUe6ebMpGy7'; document.body.appendChild( cap_s ); }\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>  The Washington Stand is Family Research Council\u2019s outlet for news and commentary from a biblical worldview. The Washington Stand is based in Washington, D.C. and is published by FRC, whose mission is to advance faith, family, and freedom in public policy and the culture from a biblical worldview. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump urged Christians at the Faith &amp; Freedom Coalition&#8217;s &#8220;Road to Majority&#8221; conference in Washington, D.C., to vote in November. 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