The morality of voting Yes or No

Dear friends

Australia will soon be voting in a referendum to change our constitution. 

(Background for inattentive Aussies or overseas readers: the proposed change involves recognizing the place of Indigenous Australians in our nation’s history, as the original inhabitants of the land, and creating a new mechanism for the participation of Indigenous Australian in our nation’s government—a constitutionally guaranteed Voice to the federal parliament and executive government.)

As might be expected, the proposed constitutional change has generated lively debate, and Yes and No camps have quickly formed. 

One of the fascinating features of the debate is how the moral dimension of the question has come to the fore. A prominent Jewish leader recently said that he’d be voting Yes because “I know it’s the right thing to do. The moral thing to do.” 

If he’s right, then the argument is over. And Christians, like everyone else, should vote Yes. 

But is he right? What place does morality have in deciding questions like this? And how should Christians engage with the debate as citizens? 

That’s our topic in this edition of Two Ways News. 

Your brother

Tony 

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