The real tragedy is not that there is an ignorant and hateful person in office, since there is some hope that she can be removed democratically. The tragedy is her legacy, that this is the person who was Florida’s Secretary of State in 2000 and oversaw the presidential ballot recount:
Separation of church and state is “a lie we have been told,” Harris said in the interview, published Thursday, saying separating religion and politics is “wrong because God is the one who chooses our rulers.”
“If you’re not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin,” Harris said.
This nut is about as un-American as they come, taking illegal campaign contributions and obfuscating a suspicious ballot fiasco, yet thumping a bible and saying her kind should be in control of “average citizens who are not Christians, because they don’t know better”.
I see absolute evidence that ballot-boxes will not be safe from radicals like Harris without true transparency and fail-safe audit trails.
Incidentally, take a look at her answer to a question about whether she is “involved in a local place of worship? If so in what way?”
Calvary Chapel in Sarasota is my base. I grew up as a Presbyterian, in the PCA (the USA is more liberal), and here I attend the Calvary Chapel. My heritage, my grandfather was a missionary in Africa and my aunt and uncle were missionaries in India and now they head up Arab World Missions. My brother-in-law is a Christian singer who has won number one song of the year, every year, his name is Wes King. So, I had a godly family.
Seems like a simple enough question, but she appears unwilling or unable to answer. Apparently she would rather talk about coverting foreigners to Christianity than admit how/whether she involves herself at a local level. What does her relationship to Christian missionaries in India and Africa and a singer have to do with what she herself does for a place of worship in Florida? Am I missing something here, like the code phrase for personal activism is “my aunt and uncle…head up Arab World Missions”? No wonder her campaign workers are leaving in droves.
Who can trust someone that avoids questions like this and throws out loaded buzzwords here and there? Her comments about Christianity seem more about trying to trick real Christians to vote for her so she can keep her power over them — a classic case of Machiavellianism more than an expression of real values.
This interview is really over the top in terms of a candidate expressing her distance from basic core American values (e.g. Truth, Popular Sovereignty, Diversity, Liberty, Common Good) and so one can only hope that she has done herself in this time.