While the Seventh-day Adventist Church is generally seen as being moderately conservative, it is also progressive, learning from its historical contexts, respecting the views of others pertaining to attitudes regarding public, political, and civic affairs.
The General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, as early as 1865 resolved, that “the act of voting, when exercised in behalf of justice, humanity and right, is in itself blameless”. Subsequently, based on the foregoing principle and its social outreach ministry to people, the Church, admonishes its members to exercise their franchise and vote for the candidates and party of their choice.
The church believes that the God of creation, through the method of His choice, not excluding the ballot, sets up and removes political leaders and rules in the affairs of humanity (Daniel 2: 21).
Because the church is comprises all types and classes of people and has a mission to all citizens, whatever their political persuasions, in the interest of such mission, especially where partisan politics is divisive, the members, especially as a group, are not encouraged to take a partisan political line.
