The New Social Gospel

There is something almost universally appealing about protecting America’s constitution: that the people who choose America’s leaders should, in fact, be Americans. It is a principle rooted in civic responsibility — the idea that self-governance is a sacred trust, and that its integrity matters. Yet Christians who think carefully about politics know that no good can come from a law that would take voting rights away from American citizens. Noncitizen voting in federal elections is already a crime under existing federal law. It happens — but at the scale of dozens of individuals, not in numbers that have shaped the outcome of national races. The strength of our nation comes from the ability of each American to make their voice heard by voting, and any laws that would harm the rights of Americans to vote in an effort to stop a few noncitizens from voting (which again, is already illegal)