Ballot measures may look short on the ballot, but their effects can be long-lasting. Some are technical. Some are controversial. Some sound simple but include details that matter deeply for our neighbors, schools, communities, and public life.
That is why Lutheran Engagement and Advocacy in Nevada prepares a voter guide.
LEAN’s 2026 Voter Guide is designed to help voters look beyond campaign slogans and consider ballot measures through the lens of Lutheran public witness. We do not tell people how to vote simply because an issue is politically charged. LEAN takes a position only when a measure connects clearly to our policy priorities and to ELCA social teaching.
For 2026, LEAN’s priorities include food insecurity; civic engagement, including racial, gender, and economic justice; caring for creation; health care; and housing and homelessness. In reviewing these measures, LEAN also looks to ELCA guideposts:
- The equal, God-given dignity of every person
- Special concern for people living in poverty or excluded from power
- Fair and accessible civic participation
- Dignified work and collective voice
- Equitable, sufficient, and effective funding for public education
The ELCA describes social teaching as official teaching and policy that helps guide “moral discernment and action.” We take that seriously. Our positions are not based on party labels. They are grounded in a Lutheran understanding that faith is active in love, and that love seeks justice in public relationships and social structures.
The ELCA social statement, Faith and Civic Life: Seeking the Well-being of All, reminds us that Christians are called “to take responsibility for the good of all through civic participation.” It also draws from Luther’s explanation of daily bread, which includes not only food and drink, but also “upright and faithful rulers” and “good government.”
Voting is not separate from faith. It is one way we care for our neighbors and seek the common good.
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