On a “Believer’s Voice of Victory” program set to air on Wednesday, Kenneth Copeland and David Barton declared that it was immoral for any Christian not to vote for anti-abortion candidates because even refusing to vote “is that same as casting your vote for evil.”
Copeland made the argument that Christians cannot ever vote for a pro-choice candidate because when you cast your vote for a candidate, you are endorsing every position that candidate holds. As such, Christians cannot support a candidate that is “on the death side,” Copeland said, warning that anyone who does will be held accountable by God as an accomplice to murder.
“This is serious business, man,” Copeland declared and Barton was entirely in agreement, adding his own warning that those who do not vote candidates who oppose abortion rights will be held just as accountable as those who vote for pro-choice ones.
Not voting for anti-abortion candidates “keeps you from being on the life platform,” Barton said. “There is only one place of life, any place else except that is not life. There’s not a third choice. If you do nothing, you have not chosen life … If you choose not to vote, that’s the same as casting your vote for evil”:
