OPINION:
My son Levi is a budding engineer. Just last year, he participated with a middle-school team in a robotics competition in Minnesota where they spent months working to design, build, and program a robot to accomplish key tasks.
As we walked into the arena at the University of Minnesota, we were greeted by something far different from what you would expect.
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We were immediately confronted with posters encouraging children to embrace strange new sexual horizons. They were handing out literature with an agenda to teach him to doubt the link between his mind and body — his self, and his self-image. They offered Levi a rainbow button to wear, encouraging him to declare his gender preferences. Wasn’t this supposed to be a robotics competition?
We had a good conversation that night about the battle for our minds and our attention.
You see, this event was no longer just about my son programming robots to follow his commands, but strangers programming my son to follow theirs.
People wanted to sell him the lie that he could be perfected by swapping out the right parts, like the robots he works on.
This infernal programming is being downloaded into our children, and it becomes far easier when it finds no resistance in our public square — when it is allowed to fill the void left by the absence of our faith.
Nature abhors a vacuum…and unnatural things do as well.
For too long, people of faith have been fed the blasted falsehood that America’s vital institutions could be value-neutral, reflecting no particular belief except tolerance and personal freedom.
And for too long, we have swallowed it.
We thought there could be a cultural truce, where at least we would be allowed to teach our families and our congregations in accordance with timeless values. Live and let live. So, we surrendered the public square. We retreated to the church pew and the living room couch.
And something filled the vacuum. It is a religion without a god, a superstition without tradition.
And it has come for our children.
Generations of politicians and pundits laid the groundwork for our current crisis.
They invented the idea that the First Amendment prohibition of an “establishment” religion meant that religion could not inform our laws. They quoted Thomas Jefferson’s line about the “wall of separation” between Church and State, pretending it was in the Constitution.
But our Founding Fathers would have never signed the Constitution if they thought it purged faith from the government. As President John Adams once said: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.”
It is this understanding of our country that My Faith Votes seeks to restore, and you and I both have a role to play in this great restoration.
It’s time we stood united, as people of God, letting our faith fill the void in America.
It is this vacuum that we seek to fill. I hope you will join us as we work to restore Christian values to schools, to communities, and to the halls of Congress and the White House.
United we stand, as people of God.
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After spending over two decades working as an executive at Fortune 100 companies, Jason Yates discovered that 1 in 3 Christians does not vote consistently. That statistic prompted him to leave the corporate world and become the founding CEO of My Faith Votes—a national, nonprofit ministry equipping Christians to think biblically about the issues, pray for our nation, and vote consistently in every election. Under Jason’s faithful leadership, My Faith Votes has activated and equipped thousands of Christians to vote in their local, state, and federal elections. In the 2024 elections, they have a goal of activating 1.5 million Christian voters.
Jason and his wife Megan live on 14 acres in Minnesota and are proud parents to two children through the gift of adoption. Jason serves on several national mission boards, coaches his daughter’s lacrosse team, and is an elder at his church.
My Faith Votes is a nonpartisan movement that motivates, equips, and activates Christians in America to vote in every election, transforming our communities and influencing our nation with biblical truth. By partnering with national faith leaders, My Faith Votes provides resources to help Christians Pray, Think, and Act to create an America where God is honored in the public square. Website: www.myfaithvotes.org. Twitter:@MyFaithVotes. Facebook: My Faith Votes.
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