Lt. Col. Allen West – National Spokesperson, My Faith Votes Joins Houston Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Six twenty three is at a time here in Houston's
Morning News. Yeah, when it comes to deciding who and
what you're going to vote for this upcoming election, it's
it's complicated, let's put it that way. Joining us to
talk about it is Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, national spokesperson
for my Faith Votes. You know, I was using as
an example Catholics for choice, Colonel. It's even within certain

(00:23):
faiths there's a lot of division over where people stand
on policy issues.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, you're right and great to be with you, good morning.
But you know, if you are, you know, part of
the Body of Christ and one of the things that
we say and by faith votes. So the organization's been
around for about ten years. Five on one c. Three
is that you have to vote your values and if
you are taking your values from the Bible and on
the issue of life, very simple. Deuteronomy in thirty and

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nineteen says the war says that I said before you
today two choices, life or death. Choose life, so that
you and your descendant shall live. In Psal seven, verses
three through five, David talks about how children are blessing
from God. They're the fruit of the womb and blessed
be the man that has many of them like arrows
in his quiver. So I think it's pretty unequivocal what

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the Bible says about life and Jeremiah, I think is
one in five It says, I knew you before I
formed you in the womb. So, you know, we have
to work through these conflicts of interest where we see
the Church trying to take a more you know, societal
or cultural stance, because it says in Romans twelve and
two that you know, you're not supposed to be conformed,

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you're supposed to be transformed the world about the doing
of your mind.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Okay, colonel, let's interrupt here a little bit. Sorry, But
it seems to be that we've got Christian factions being
pitted against each other right now, Yes, that this whole
And is this really coming from the Christians or is
it coming from the left, Is it coming from the
non Christians? Is it coming from non believers in general

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who are trying to cast another group of Christians as
being pariased.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
No, I think that's a big point. And you hear
this term Christian nationalism, this being paired around you even
have a book out there called Woke Jesus right now.
So I think that again you have people that are
within the Church, within the Body of Christ, that are
trying to say that, you know, you're not supposed to
talk about these things. You know, so many people have
misinterpreted the whole separation of church and state, which is

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just you know, a principle and an idea and a
letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Dan Barry Baptist Convention,
and it really was about the church being protected from
the state because of the example of King Henry the
Eighth when he created his own church, the Church of England,
and he demanded that people will not just worship him
as the head of state, but also they head the church.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
All right, sir, I wish we had more time, but
I want to thank you for joining us this morning.
We appreciate it. Lieutenant Colonel Allen West, national spokesperson at
My Faith Votes