Christian Conservatives Should Have More Children to Counter Democratic Demographic Advantage
Source: Kylee Griswold. "Christians Can’t Import A New Electorate, But We Can Have Babies." November 6, 2026. thefederalist.com
The Gist
The author says Democrats are gaining lasting political power through immigration, and Republican policies like deportation and election integrity can only do so much. She argues that Christian conservatives should respond by having many more children and avoiding contraception, which she says fits biblical teaching and would eventually make them a bigger voting bloc.
Conclusion
Conservative Christians should have significantly more children (and stop contracepting) as a long-term strategy to renew American culture and win at the ballot box, since they cannot import voters as Democrats allegedly do.
Premises
- Democrats are building a permanent electorate through mass immigration, amnesty, and rapid citizenship, and demographic change is shifting even red states like Texas and Mississippi toward them.
- Conservative tools such as deportation and election integrity are worthwhile but insufficient, because Democrats reopen the border whenever they gain power and Republican lawmakers lack the will to require proof of citizenship to vote.
- Democrats are playing the long game, while Christians are undermining their own cultural renewal by using contraception, sterilization, and delaying or limiting children for the sake of comfort, careers, and control.
- Christians who oppose abortion are inconsistent when they do everything in their power to prevent new lives from forming in their marriages.
- The Bible teaches that children are a good gift, reward, heritage, and blessing from God, so a Christian life that truly honored this teaching would involve many more children.
- If Christians had many more children, they would form a much larger voting bloc and could shape elections in the future.
Assumptions
- Children raised by Christian conservative parents will overwhelmingly adopt their parents' religious and political views and vote accordingly.
- Immigrants and their descendants will reliably vote Democratic, so demographic change is a durable partisan advantage for the left.
- The strategy's payoff (a generation or more away) will arrive in time and will not be outweighed by other demographic or cultural shifts.
- Using contraception or limiting family size is morally comparable to, or inconsistent with, opposing abortion, or at least contrary to Christian teaching.
- Christian couples' family-size decisions are mainly driven by comfort, careers, and control rather than economic constraints, health, or other legitimate considerations.
- Procreation is an appropriate means for pursuing political and electoral goals.
- Biblical passages praising children imply an obligation to maximize the number of children.