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Texas Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate is Two-Faced Pro-Choice PCA Church Elder

Texas Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate is Two-Faced Pro-Choice PCA Church Elder

Last updated on: February 22, 2020 at 2:43 pm by Bethany Blankley

Texas Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate is Two-Faced Pro-Choice PCA Church Elder 2020-02-22T14:43:20-05:00 Bethany Blankley

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On March 6 Texas Democrats primarily voted for Dallas Sheriff Lupe Valdez and PCA Church elder, Andrew White.

Valdez is an open borders and sanctuary cities advocate and publicly advocates not complying with the federal law on illegal immigration. Because she did not receive 50 percent of the vote, Texas Democrats will have to vote in a run-off election in six weeks.

Meet the two faces of her opponent, Andrew White. White is an elder at Christ the King Church in Spring Branch, Texas. Although White belongs to a “conservative” Presbyterian denomination (Presbyterian Church of America) his campaign website initially stated that he “didn’t know when life begins” and that he respects the law.

About a month ago I unknowingly met with a longtime friend of White’s from Christ the King Church. We were primarily discussing issues related to the PCA denomination and I asked this friend how a PCA church elder could support killing children when the Bible prohibits it? I followed up to our meeting in an email on February 12 in which I wrote:

I wanted to follow up with you re Andrew White; here’s his page where he appears to affirm abortion and explicitly does not oppose it.

His position is interesting, although affordable healthcare is not accessible to both men and women, especially those living outside of Harris County. It might have been prior to Obamacare, but after Obamacare it definitely isn’t.I don’t understand how any PCA elder could claim the following: “I can’t understand when a human life actually begins. It’s a mystery known only to God, and, as such my faith tells me to protect the beginning of life.”

The bible is clear when life begins.

This friend or someone he knew relayed the message to White, since after my email of February 12 White’s campaign clarified its position on abortion. It now states:

I support Roe v Wade. I believe women have the right to make their own medical decisions without interference from the government. As governor, I’ll veto legislation that places an undue burden on women.

In my personal life, I accept that life begins at conception. However, I will not impose my personal belief on other Texans because I’m proud to live in a country that both separates church and state, and respects a woman’s right to control her own body.

However, White doesn’t clarify how a woman’s body is different from a baby’s body inside of her, and that women’s health and human rights are not mutually exclusive from a baby’s right to life.

Furthermore, women, and actually everyone, already has government interference when it comes to making medical decisions. The government regulates what doctors patients can go to, how much they should or shouldn’t pay, how much doctors should be paid or not paid for providing services, what services they can perform or cannot, what medicines people can have access to, and a range of regulations related to getting birth and death certificates. The list of government interference in medical decisions is endless. The government already outlaws murder, which Democrats selectively choose to support.

A member of a PCA church who maintains his position on abortion, about which the Bible clearly opposes, is hypocritical at best. Certainly no one who submits to the authority of the Bible can honestly argue that killing a child is permissible under any circumstance. The Israelites in Egypt, and later in pre-Islamic Arabia, were known as one of the only people who did not kill their children before they were born, or after they were born if the baby was a girl. Mosaic Law required the death penalty for murder of a pregnant woman, for murdering two people, not one. (Muslims don’t support abortion either, it’s important to note.)

Here’s a question for Andrew White, and anyone else claiming to be a Christian: if you are personally pro-life would you allow your wife to kill your child as a matter of public policy?

The law regulates morality. The governor oversees laws. One’s public and private life and beliefs are not separate. In fact, the outworking of public life is a reflection of personal beliefs. To suggest that White can be personally pro-life and publicly support abortion is a fallacy. Either he’s lying to himself or he’s lying to everyone else. And, there’s nothing Christian about this position.

Unfortunately the choices Democrats have for a gubernatorial candidate are equally bad. Both support and oppose laws that reject the intended purpose of the law: to protect U.S. citizens and create human flourishing.

Fortunately, Republicans will come out to vote in November as they did on Tuesday, and whoever wins the Democratic run-off will be defeated by Greg Abbott. Regardless of one’s opinions about Abbott, he’s a lot better than these two farces.

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