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Barry McCarty: What your vote does and does not do

September 6, 2016

By Barry McCarty, Christian Examiner

FORT WORTH, Texas (Christian Examiner) — A lot of you are confusing the “consent of the governed,” which is what happens in a political election, with some sort of absolute moral affirmation of everything the candidate you vote for has ever said or done.

Your vote does nothing of the sort.

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