“Let’s be very clear – if the people in the pro-life, pro-family element of the Republican Party all bail out, we can be sure that we will not win another election. Because every time we nominate someone who is a strong pro-life, pro-family candidate -especially for president – we win. When we don’t, we lose.

“I keep hearing people say, ‘Let’s not touch these issues,’ and I keep thinking, ‘Well, if we really want to keep losing, that’s the most effective method I can think of.’ What we need to be doing is giving people who are faith voters, who are – by the way – economic conservatives and they’re also national security conservatives – they’re “full-spectrum” conservatives.

“We need to be making sure that we have candidates that inspire them and make them want to go vote.

“Here’s a fact: If Mitt Romney had had four percent more of the evangelical voters in 2012 – just evangelicals – that doesn’t even include the pro-life Catholics and other mainstream Christian denominational people – just four percent of the evangelicals – he’d be President Romney today.

“And we cannot assume that we can win national elections by moving away from issues that matter to people – fundamental issues of life and death – we need to believe that we will win elections when we’re inclusive with those issues.”

This article was originally posted at IllinoisReview.com.