Truth is no less true nor right any less right regardless of where or from whom you hear it. Mike Pence's protest against Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an ardent abortion advocate, to serve as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services, is truly a betrayal of all pro-life Trump supporters. It is, as Pence alleges, an abrupt departure from the Republican Party's past pro-life record and "should [therefore] be deeply concerning to millions of Pro-Life Americans who have supported the Republican Party and [its] nominees for decades.”

Both Donald Trump and the Republican Party have compromised their pro-life principles for political expediency's sake. Granted, neither Trump nor the Party may have ever sincerely held them, but both have lately made real concessions contrary to them. To begin with, all debate was cut off at this year's meeting of the GOP's platform committee, so that the Party's new compromised stance on abortion could be dictated to pro-life committee members. Second, Donald Trump, in spite of his vowed opposition to late term abortions, is willing to empower states to permit abortions right up to the moment of birth. This passing of the buck to the states, in order to absolve himself of any culpability in the continuing carnage of unborn children in our country, is a big reason Trump chose J. D. Vance as his Vice President, since Vance was willing, unlike other potential vice presidential picks, to compromise his stance on abortion to allow its continuance from state to state. While Trump boldly proclaimed during his presidential campaign that his election would be "great for women and their reproductive rights," his wife Melania publicly professed her belief in a woman's fundamental right to terminate her pregnancy and exterminate her unborn child.

While I agree with Mike Pence that pro-life Americans are being sold out by Trump and the Republican Party, in a number of ways, not just by Trump's nomination of Robert F. Kennedy to be his Director of Health and Human Services, Mike Pence himself is guilty of egregious compromise as well. In 2015, as the Governor of Indiana, Mike Pence backed down in his defense of religious freedom under corporate pressure, which was precipitated by the threat of protesting gay rights advocates to boycott the Hoosier State. Pence's reneging on Indiana’s version of the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which would have protected Indianians from being sued over their religious convictions by militant homosexuals, was truly a watershed moment in America. It not only marked the first time corporate America got in bed with militant homosexuals, over threatened boycotts of businesses by gay rights activists, but also revealed that Republican politicians, like Mike Pence, in Red States, like Indiana, could not be counted on to defend America’s bedrock liberty⏤religious freedom. Thanks to compromising Mike Pence, the historic, biblical, and orthodox Christian Faith was denounced as intolerance and bigotry, Indiana Christians were routed by militant gays and their corporate cohorts, and we suddenly found ourselves living in a new country, a post-Christian America.

In politics, compromise is a virtue, but in Christianity, it is a vice. In fact, compromise crowns Satan and gives him control wherever it occurs. Do you remember Christ's letter to the church of Pergamos, the church of compromise (Revelation 2:12-17). According to Christ, "Satan's seat" was in Pergamos; that is, Satan was enthroned there, because compromise was epitomized there. Compromise is a slippery slop that always results in us slipping into Satan's lap and ultimately under his lordship. It was the Apostle Paul who warned us that "a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump" (Galatians 5:9). No matter how much that which is pure is added to that which is corrupt, that which is corrupt will ever remain corrupt. On the other hand, all it takes to corrupt that which is pure is the least little smidgen of anything corrupt. Therefore, all compromise must be anathema to the people of God, lest we end up corrupted by it and crowning Satan with it.