Can you be evangelical and vote Green?

David Robertson  |  Comment
Date posted:  20 Mar 2026
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Can you be evangelical and vote Green?

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en does not support any one particular party. However, we are interested in evangelicals within each of our political parties. Following the recent Green Party by-election win, en invited Andrew Mellen to set out why, as an evangelical, he chose the party as his political home. His article can be read here. Now, Scottish Presbyterian minister and religious commentator David Robertson responds.

I am not a fan of clergy telling Christians who to vote for – that is not our job. In my previous congregation of St Peters Dundee, we had Tories, Labour and SNP supporters, Liberal Democrats and doubtless people of other persuasions – and that is the way it should be. However, there are exceptions to every rule.

I would happily advise people against voting for either the Communist or Fascist (as in genuinely Fascist – not in the modern sense of "anyone who disagrees with me") parties – given that they are ideologies which are specifically anti-Christian.

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