Great Lakes Wire

Michigan residents and Christian leaders nationwide are recognizing "National Voter Registration Sunday" as the presidential election nears.  

The goal of the event is to bring "Christians of all stripes and faith backgrounds together to think biblically—and act accordingly with their faith values." Voter Registration Sunday is a nonpartisan, grassroots movement to encourage people of faith to exercise their freedom and right to vote according to their values just as they exercise their right to worship freely according to their faith. 

The campaign will run from Sunday, September 15 to Sunday, September 22. 

Information on how to register to vote and request and absentee ballot can be found at on the National Voter Registration Sunday page.

According to data from the Catholic Vote Education Fund, one-third of Catholics are not fulfilling the "moral obligation" for Catholics to vote. The group also claims that is every Catholic in the United States voted in November "it would transform America."

In a document encouraging protestants to participate in Voter Registration Sunday, Faith Wins, a group that encourages people of faith to vote according to their values, argued that "Believers shouldn’t vote on person or party, but always on policies and principles that most closely reflect our Biblical worldview."

"It is vitally important to the future of this country that voters of faith turn out in this election," Terry Schilling, president of American Principles Project said. "But to do so, these voters need to be registered, which is why efforts like Voter Registration Sunday are so important. Hopefully, this Sunday will see many more pro-family voters signed up and prepared to impact this fall's campaign."

At the 2024 Democratic Convention, Kamala Harris and the Democratic party officially adopted a platform that included support for "gender-affirming care" for minors, and officially opposed laws restricting these practices which can include surgical procedures as well as the prescription of drugs like puberty blockers. 

In 2023, Harris's VP pick, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed a bill that turned his state into a "trans refuge." The bill gave  Minnesota's court system the power to determine custody of a minor in cases where “the presence of a child in [the] state is for the purpose of obtaining gender-affirming health care." It also grants the courts the rights to rule on custody if a child in the state has "been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care.”

During a Townhall in 2019, as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President, Harris pledged that she would target states that pass pro-life laws or attempt to put any restrictions on abortion in place. She proposed a plan to require states with "a history of passing" pro-life legislation to submit those laws to her administration's Department of Justice for "a review and approval" until her administration determind that they were "constitutional." 

Tim Walz, as Governor of Minnesota, signed HF-1 into law which did away with Minnesota's 24 week abortion limit and allows abortions to occur into late stages of pregnancy up to the 8th and 9th month. 

According to a Pew Research analysis of validated voters, of all those who voted for Democratic or Republican candidates in 2020, 46 percent were Protestants and 20 percent were Catholics. 

58 percent of those who voted for Trump in 2020 were Protestants (35 percent of Biden voters were Protestants). Broken down into subgroups, 34 percent of these Trump voters were white Evangelical Protestants, 17 percent were white mainline Protestants, two percent were black Protestants, and five percent were other race Protestants.

According to World Population Review, 73 percent of Michiganders are Christian including 18 percent that are Catholic and 25 percent that are Evangelical.

The population of Michigan is approximately 10,041,241.

President Joe Biden surpassed former President Donald Trump by 154,188 votes in Michigan during the 2020 election, according to the Michigan Secretary of State.