A Lie?
August 28th, 2006 - 5:01 pm
U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris told a religious journal that separation of church and state is “a lie” and God and the nation’s founding fathers did not intend the country be “a nation of secular laws.”
The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate also said that if Christians are not elected, politicians will “legislate sin,” including abortion and gay marriage.
Harris made the comments — which she clarified Saturday — in the Florida Baptist Witness, the weekly journal of the Florida Baptist State Convention, which interviewed political candidates and asked them about religion and their positions on issues.
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 hear a loud booming noise, that would be my head exploding. I am speechless.
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5 Responses to “A Lie?”
Holy rollers and Halloween witches. Ain’t we got culture!
So much for the “free will” part of the equation.
Can I get sick now? This woman is scarier than Bush and I didn’t think that was possible! “God is the one who chooses our rulers”?!?!@!? WTF!?!
Next we will be hearing “WE are your gods, bow down to us” a la ancient Egypt or Stargate, take your pick. I really am feeling sick over this!
If that woman gets elected to Senate (or anyone else like her), I’m going to look into being a Canadian/Mexican snowbird who only visits the “United States” while flying over it! This country is becoming a mad house run by the patients!
Well, I’m off to dreamland now. Maybe if we all fill the world with positive Tachyon energy, crazies like Kate Harris will quietly go away! ;-)
I am just as upset about her use of the word “rulers” as I am all the God talk. I wasn’t under the impression we were RULED by our elected officials. Ruling is something that kings and overlords do, not democratically elected leaders who are SERVING the public as REPRESENTATIVES.
Pretty crazy all around, and I am certain she’s not the only one that holds these views. She’s just the only one insane enough to voice them publicly in front of reporters.
I noticed something today at work. Everyone can have a personal radio at his work station, and nearly everyone does, often played loud. One of the women listens to the Jesus ‘rock’ station. I realized today that I seem to hear the same songs every time I’m over there. Then I remembered the years I was subjected to loud country and the playlist was so short they played the same thing every hour. Then a few years later the hiphoppers took over and the music was repeated every half hour. Well, if ‘nothing to say’ is indicated by paucity of material, Christian pop is on a par with cable ‘news.’
The second part of the epiphany was revealed in the good cop/bad cop style of the dj’s patter. It’s an unspoken assumption that the only people who fall for that crap are people tired of falling off the wagon and who have accepted personal fascism as the antidote to boozing or whatever had their lives offtrack. All the born-againers at work are obviously struggling mightily to contain a lot of rage. I see fundamentalism as merely the flip side of chronic alcoholism. Wanna bet the congresswoman was halfway through the first bottle during that interview?