Important Note on the Governor’s Race
Cornerstone’s official recommendation is to boycott the GOP governor’s race.
We call on New Hampshire pro-lifers to leave the line for governor blank. Skip over the governor’s race and simply fill out the rest of the primary ballot instead.
This is a carefully-considered decision and is not simply a gesture of protest. We hope that you will consider our reasoning before you vote.
Media outlets and the Republican establishment will claim that Cornerstone is taking an uncompromising, “all-or-nothing” stance over abortion. But this is not true. Cornerstone often endorses candidates who are middle-of-the-road on abortion. We have always promoted compromise to move the ball forward in the fight for life.
This gubernatorial primary is different. If pro-lifers participate in this race – even to vote for the “less wrong” candidate – the ball will likely be permanently taken off the field, never to return again in your lifetime.
Both Kelly Ayotte and Chuck Morse have said that they will categorically oppose any restriction on abortion, whatsoever, before a child has reached 6 months of gestation – a time when the child is already able to survive outside the womb.
With the sole exception of Chris Sununu’s fourth run in 2022, no major GOP candidate for governor in America has ever committed to a position this pro-abortion. Before 2019, not even a Democrat gubernatorial candidate would’ve expressly run on this position. Even two years ago, a “moderate Republican” candidate would’ve drawn the line around 15 weeks of gestation, when the child clearly “looks like a baby”: not on the very day a child is ready to survive.
Had either candidate espoused even a moderately pro-life position, we would have endorsed that candidate.
We are not calling for a boycott because Ayotte and Morse are imperfect. Instead, we call on pro-lifers to sit this one out because both candidates are unacceptably pushing the envelope of what is acceptable in a Republican primary in a pro-abortion direction.
Pro-lifers who feel tempted to vote in this gubernatorial primary should remember that neither of these candidates has made any attempt at all to court the pro-life vote. If you are still willing to vote in this primary, why should any Republican gubernatorial candidate ever seek your vote again
Endorsements you can trust for Family First Candidates throughout New Hampshire
Cornerstone Action sets a high bar for endorsements. Not every candidate can clear it. We consider several factors, including voting records and responses to Cornerstone’s candidate survey, before we issue endorsements. As a reminder, Cornerstone Action is registered in New Hampshire and cannot make endorsements in federal (Congressional) races.
All about Voting in NH
NH Primary Election is Tuesday, September 10th NH General Election is Tuesday, November 5th
Sample ballot
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How to register to vote
Register to vote by visiting your town or city clerk's office and completing a voter registration form. You may also register on the day of the election, in some circumstances. NOTE: You may register and vote by absentee (by mail) if You are concerned that registering or voting in person will expose you or others to COVID-19.
Find your polling location
If you are voting in person on election day, you must vote in a particular place during particular times on November 3 (general). Polling locations are assigned based on your address.
5 REASONS
Christians Should Care about Government and Voting
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Government was instituted by God.
Romans 13 and 1 Peter 2 show us that government was instituted by God, created with a purpose and responsibility: to punish evil and praise those who do good. Government is God’s social institution of justice, a value so important to God that His Son was killed on the Cross to satisfy its requirements.
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Government officials are ministers of God.
Romans 13 calls government officials ministers of God, meaning they are, in effect, servants of the Lord. Just as pastors are ministers of the Church, elected officials are ministers of God in government, and they have a job to do for Him. This should change the way we view our elected officials. This is why the Bible calls us to pray, submit, and honor those in authority. (1 Tim 2, Rom 13, 1 Pet 2)
3
Government cannot properly do its job without the church.
How do governments of the world determine good and evil? Left on their own, governments often get it wrong. Government needs the Church to provide a standard and to give sound counsel on what the Lord has called good and evil.
4
Law matters.
The law has never been able to save, and we are free from the penalty of sin. But the moral law comes from the character and nature of God, standing as a teacher and shaper of culture. Godly leaders pass laws that help guide society to see what is right and to protect people by making it more difficult to sin.
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You get to choose.
As Americans, we get to choose our ministers of government. As Christians, we also know what God expects of government. He also expects us to be good stewards of this opportunity and select righteous, qualified individuals to serve as ministers in government. Our right to vote is a gift God has given us to use to honor Him. (Matt 25:14-30)
Cornerstone Action sets a high bar for endorsements. Not every candidate can clear it. We consider several factors, including voting records and responses to Cornerstone’s candidate survey, before we issue endorsements. As a reminder, Cornerstone Action is registered in New Hampshire and cannot make endorsements in federal (Congressional) races.
Cornerstone Action sets a high bar for endorsements. Not every candidate can clear it. We consider several factors, including voting records and responses to Cornerstone’s candidate survey, before we issue endorsements. As a reminder, Cornerstone Action is registered in New Hampshire and cannot make endorsements in federal (Congressional) races.
