But they would be wrong.

And if Robertson or Dobson are encouraging such (and I'm not making the case that they are), then they should be rejected outright.

For a Bible-believing Christian to abstain from participation in the 2008 general election is to behave in a biblically disobedient nature. Oh sure there may not be as much to be excited about in this year's contest, but large issues do loom in the near future. If we as evangelicals remain silent as justices are seated on the Supreme Court, as our nation responds to jihadists who wish to injure. maim, and kill innocent people, or while our school curriculums begin to add homosexuality, bestiality, and every kind of sexual combination imaginable and refer to it as a family to the textbooks of our nation's school children we must understand that we play a part in allowing these things to happen.

In the Gospels Jesus compels his disciples to render to Caesar what is Caesar's. Meaning that Christians are obligated to participate in the function of civil government and life under the law as long as it does not violate the terms, principles, or instruction of scripture. To be sure, rendering to Caesar in our nation includes paying our taxes, but it means a good deal more as well.

Since Caesar in modern day America is you and me, then we are to play our part in the role of government faithfully. The very minimum of what that includes is the requirement to vote. To not exercise this simple obligation is to, by act and deed, NOT render to Caesar as Christ instructed.

Who you vote for, the rationale for why you support certain candidates, and the degree to which you show rabid enthusiasm for them or more passively hold your nose and vote for the lesser of evils, is up to you. But the act of voting in and of itself, is not. If you are a Bible believing Christian, if you are someone who uses the biblical text to govern the behavior, ethic, and integrity of your life, then you are someone--as an American--whose minimum requirement as it relates to government is to cast a vote.

There are many like me who are thoroughly disillusioned with the choices put before us in this election cycle. In one camp, you have an avowed leftist who will tax beyond anything resembling fairness, who will stand by while the slaughter of children continues unabated, who will seek to ratify the most radical of sexual agendas so as to redefine the very nature of family, and who will pretend to take action against jihadists by sitting at a table with them--all while they seek to plot his ultimate demise. In the other camp, you have a man who has assaulted the freedom of speech unlike any elected official preceding him, a man who does not see the threat to the American family in the radical sexual agenda that is being enacted, and a man who is unsure if a man's wages really do belong to the man who earned them. And for that matter, is even unsure as to whether our borders, in fact, belong to us.

The moral abyss that these two choices provide one with is striking and scary. Nonetheless, it is the evangelical Christian's obligation to make a choice and cast a vote.

Regardless of what "Christian Leader's" voice, newsletter, or television show it may come from, any word to the opposite is unbiblical, and must be rejected.