Party Platform Comparison
Below is a side by side comparison of where each party stands on the following issues. This is to help individuals understand how these two parties align Biblically. If you would like to download a party platform comparison PDF you can by clicking here:
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rEPUBLICAN
DEMOCRATIC
Sanctity of Human Life
“Protects human life and offers real solutions for women.” “Strongly opposes infanticide.” Supports the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act; a human life
“‘all’ are ‘endowed by their Creator’ with the inalienable right to life…we assert the sanctity of human life and… that the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the
Constitution…”
Constitutional amendment; a ban on abortion at 20 weeks; a ban on abortion based on sex or disability; a ban on dismemberment abortion; abortion clinic safety regulations; a ban on human cloning, and on creating and experimenting upon human embryos; a ban on any sale of fetal body parts; and a ban on the “use of public funds to perform or promote abortion or to fund organizations, like Planned Parenthood.”
Redefining Marriage
“The American family… is the foundation of civil society, and the cornerstone of the family is natural marriage, the union of one man and one woman.” “Condemns the Supreme Court’s ruling in … Obergefell v. Hodges” and “urges its reversal.”
International Abortion and LGBT Agenda
Oppose the federal government funding abortion overseas and calls for restoring the Mexico City Policy. (Bar federal money from going to foreign organizations which “provide or promote abortion”.) Condemns “impos[ing] on foreign recipients, especially the peoples of Africa, a radical social agenda while excluding faith-based groups.”
Opposes "government funding to be used for transgender surgeries and hormone blockers."
Religious Liberty vs. LGBT Agenda
“Supports the freedom of Americans to act in accordance with their religious beliefs, in their houses of worship and in their everyday lives.” “Values the right of America’s religious leaders to preach, and Americans to speak freely, according to their faith. Believes the federal government, specifically the IRS, is constitutionally prohibited from policing or censoring speech based on religious convictions or beliefs. Urges the repeal of the Johnson Amendment.”
Supreme Court
“Supports the appointment of judges who respect traditional family values and the sanctity of innocent human life.” Seek to “enable courts to begin to reverse the past activist decisions—including Obergefell, and Obamacare.”
Conscience Rights in Healthcare
Supports the rights of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and health care plans to not participate in morally objectionable services.
Supports “the right of parents to determine the proper medical treatment and therapy for their minor children.”
Believes “any honest agenda for improving healthcare must
start with repeal of the dishonestly named Affordable
Care Act of 2010: Obamacare.”
Social Experiments In the Military
“Rejects the use of the military as a platform for social experimentation. Will not accept attempts to undermine military priorities and mission readiness.”
“Support religious freedom of all military members, especially chaplains. Will not tolerate attempts to ban Bibles or religious symbols from military facilities.”
Oppose the “Selective Service registration of women for a possible future draft.”
Opposes any "COVID vaccine mandates for the military personnel."
Transgender Bathrooms in Schools
Opposes Title IX transgender bathroom edict, since it is “at once illegal, dangerous, and ignores privacy issues,” and “impose[s] a social and cultural revolution upon the American people by wrongly redefining sex discrimination.”
First Responders
Opposes defunding the Polices.
Sex Education
Supports “sexual risk avoidance education that sets abstinence until marriage as the responsible and respected standard of behavior.”
Education
“School choice” and “local school control.”
“Parents,” not the government, “are a child’s first and foremost educators. Opposes Common Core.”
Support home-schooling, private or parochial schools, vouchers, and tuition tax credits, etc. Encourage teaching the Bible as an elective in public schools.
Against CRT, LGBT, and sex being taught in schools.
God in Government
“If God-given, natural, inalienable rights come in conflict with the government, court, or human-granted rights, God-given, natural, inalienable rights prevail.” “Supports the public display of the Ten Commandments as a reflection of our history and our country’s Judeo-Christian heritage.” “Fights for school choice” and “local school control.”
On Terrorism
“Radical Islamic terrorism poses an existential threat to personal freedom and peace around the world. We oppose its brutal assault on all human beings, all of whom have inherent dignity.”
Israel and Foreign Policy
They "reaffirm America’s commitment to Israel’s
security and will ensure that Israel maintains a
qualitative military edge over any and all adversaries.”
Immigration and Borders
The US "is the natural home for those who come in search of freedom and justice. The greatest asset of the American economy is the American worker. Our immigration system must protect American working families and their wages, for citizens and legal immigrants alike, in a way that will improve the economy. Our highest priority must be…to secure our borders and ports of entry and to enforce our immigration laws."
Against open borders.
Environment
Believed "as the pioneer of environmentalism a century ago,
[we affirm] the moral obligation to be good stewards
of the God-given natural beauty and resources...
[P]rivate ownership has been the best guarantee
of conscientious stewardship.. some of the worst
instances of degradation have occurred under
government control.”
Believes marxist, communist, and atheist governments are America's biggest threat
Sanctity of Human Life
Calls for government-funded abortion on demand through all nine months of pregnancy.
“…every woman should have access to…safe and legal abortion. We will repeal the Title X domestic gag rule and restore federal funding for Planned Parenthood. We will repeal the Hyde Amendment, and protect and codify the right to reproductive freedom.”
“Repeal the Hyde Amendment”, which bars federal money for elective abortion.
“Overturn federal and state laws and policies that impede a woman’s access to abortion.”
Redefining Marriage
Supports the redefinition of marriage through the Obergefell ruling “that recognized LGBT people … have the right to marry the person they love.”
International Abortion and LGBT Agenda
Calls for funding abortion on demand overseas by repealing the Helms Amendment, which bars U.S. foreign money for an abortion.
Will “ensure America’s foreign policy is inclusive of LGBT people around the world … including combating efforts by any nation to infringe on LGBT rights or ignore abuse.”
Will "ensure that all transgender and non-binary people can procure official government identification documents that accurately reflect their gender identity.”
Religious Liberty vs. LGBT Agenda
LGBT rights supersede religious freedom. “Reject[s] the misuse of religion to discriminate.”
Punish faith-based organizations that contract with the government. Pull the tax-exempt status of religious universities without transgender bathrooms and showers through imposing “federal non-discrimination protections for all LGBT Americans” on the basis of “gender, sexual orientation, gender identity.”
Celebrates "America’s history of religious pluralism and tolerance, and recognize the countless acts of service of our faith communities, as well as the paramount importance of maintaining the separation between church and state enshrined in our Constitution.”
Supreme Court
“Appoint judges who will protect a woman’s right to choose” and agenda of “equality for all” in which LGBT rights supersede religious liberty.
Conscience Rights in Healthcare
Supports the HHS contraception mandate against faith-based groups (Little Sisters of the Poor).
Supports redefinition of “sex discrimination” to include abortion and sex-change operations.
Guarantees "health care not as a privilege for some, but as a right for every single American. For a century, Democrats have fought to secure universal health care.”
Social Experiments In the Military
Supports the “repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
“Our military is strongest” when it includes “people of all … sexual orientations and gender identities,” such as paying for transgender sex-change operations and allowing people with gender dysphoria to use any shower, barrack, or bathrooms.
Include elective abortion coverage in military and veterans benefits.
Transgender Bathrooms in Schools
Supports the Obama administration’s redefinition of “sex discrimination” in Title IX to mandate transgender bathrooms and showers in public schools and universities through “the continued development of sex discrimination law to cover LGBT people.”
First Responders
Supports defunding the Polices.
Sex Education
Promotes condom-based sex education.
Education
Nothing stated on school choice.
“Believes a strong public education system is an anchor of our democracy” for “all children.”
Promotes CRT, LGBT, and sex being taught in schools.
God in Government
Nothing stated on the place or role of including God in government.
On Terrorism
Believes in “defeating terrorism and combatting climate change.”
Israel and Foreign Policy
They "recognize the worth of every Israeli and
every Palestinian. We support a negotiated two-state
solution that ensures Israel’s future as a Jewish and
democratic state with recognized borders and upholds
the right of Palestinians.”
Immigration and Borders
Supports "policies and programs to make
it easier for qualified immigrants and their families to
become full and equal citizens, including increasing
funding for culturally appropriate immigrant inclusion
and citizenship services, legal support, English classes
and bilingual education, workforce development,
and adult education. …it is long past time to
provide a roadmap to citizenship for the millions of
undocumented…”
Promotes open borders.
Environment
Believes “climate change is a global emergency. We have no time to waste in taking action to protect Americans’
lives and futures. Democrats believe we must embed
environmental justice, economic justice, and climate
justice at the heart of our policy and governing agenda.”
Believes climate change is the biggest threat America faces.
SCRIPTURE
SANCTITY OF LIFE AND FAMILY
Isaiah 42:5 God the Lord…gives breath to everyone who walks the earth.
Job 12:10 For the life of every living thing is in his hand, and the breath of every human being… 33:4 For the Spirit of God has made me, and the Breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Psalm 139:13-16 13For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed you in the womb I knew you before you were born I set you apart…
Deuteronomy 27:25 Cursed is anyone who accepts payment to kill an innocent person. And all the people will reply, ‘Amen.’
Genesis 1:27-28 27So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. 28 Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it…2:24 This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.
Mark 10:6-9 6“But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ 7 ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, 8 and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
1 Corinthians 7:2 …But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.
Leviticus 20:13 If a man practices homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman, both men have committed a detestable act. They must both be put to death, for they are guilty of a capital offense.
Romans 1:25-28 25They traded the truth about God for a lie….26 That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. 27 And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved. 28 Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done.
EDUCATION AND GOVERNMENT
Deuteronomy 6:1a,7 1aThese are the commands, decrees, and regulations that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you…7 Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up.
Psalm 78:4, 6-7 4We will not hide these truths from our children; we will tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the LORD… 6 so the next generation might know them— even the children not yet born— and they, in turn, will teach their own children. 7 So each generation should set its hope anew on God…
Proverbs 9:10 Fear of the LORD is the foundation of wisdom. Knowledge of the Holy One results in good judgment…22:6 Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it.
Isaiah 54:13-14 13I will teach all your children, and they will enjoy great peace. 14 You will be secure under a government that is just and fair. Your enemies will stay far away. You will live in peace, and terror will not come near.
2 Timothy 3:15-16 15You have been taught the Holy Scriptures from childhood, and they have given you the wisdom to receive the salvation that comes by trusting in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right.
Psalm 22:28 For royal power belongs to the LORD. He rules all the nations.
Proverbs 8:15-16 15Because of me, kings reign, and rulers make just decrees. 16 Rulers lead with my help, and nobles make righteous judgments.
Acts 17:26 From one man he created all the nations throughout the earth. He decided beforehand when they should rise and fall, and he determined their boundaries.
Romans 13:1 Everyone must submit to governing authorities. For all authority comes from God, and those in positions of authority have been placed there by God.