You mean throwing in with the party that is pro-life and pro-religious liberty, versus throwing with the party that is pro-abortion, and anti-religious liberty. What damages are you anticipating by voting with the GOP? What personal losses are you concerned about? Or what national losses are you concerned about?
Is it an identity thing? Would you be ostracized?
Ostracized? The only one doing that is you. I was willing to turn the other check when you started flaming me over creationism, I just assumed you didn't understand Genesis 1 never describes creation after verse 1 except with regards to the creation of life. Now this, the prolife movement is at an historical moment where their decades of effort can yield changes in long standing precedence, and you are oblivious. I finally remember why I shunned these discussions for so long, it's because the prolife crowd was an embarrassment. Screaming don't murder your baby, bombings, shootings at abortion clinics, seeing pictures of aborted fetuses at the cafeteria of my school being distributed. I know now why we lost the culture war in such dramatic fashion, it's because we deserved to.
What am I afraid of the GOP doing, deregulation, unfunded tax cuts and the economy driving off a cliff as it did with Reagan and George W. Bush or the disastrous policies of the largely Republican politics leading to the Great Depression. Protectionism doesn't work nor does isolationism, that's what I fear, bad public policy. I am not nor will I ever be liberal, I have always been prolife and will remain so. We should be in prayer about this historic moment working to forge a moral consensus not politicizing the courts.
I'm a moderate, a Reformed Evangelical who sees the sermon of Johnathan Edwards, 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God' as the spark that turned to world upside down. I've had quite enough of this, I've bent over backwards to try to make peace with you and you will have none of it. Welcome to my ignore list, it's long over due.
Have a nice day
Mark