Friday, August 25, 2006

And Then There Is This Woman


I have avoided Florida's Katherine Harris' comical Senate campaign for any number of reasons -not the least of which being that she is down by, like, 30 points (actually, it's 35) in a state I choose to imagine being 'cut loose' from our union when I take over. And the every two weeks turnover of all major staff positions. And...oh, well, the list goes on.

But, this tidbit works into my continuing effort to keep my readers informed on just how wacked out these authoritarian (mostly) southern Christians are. she gave an interview to The Florida Baptist Witness and this is a highlight:
"But the real issue is why should Baptists care, why should people care? If you are not electing Christians, tried and true, under public scrutiny and pressure, if you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin. They can legislate sin. They can say that abortion is all right. They can vote to sustain gay marriage. And that will take Western civilization, indeed other nations because people look to our country as one nation as under God, and whenever we legislate sin and we say abortion is permissible and we say gay unions are permissible, then average citizens who are not Christians, because they don't know better, we are leading them astray and it's wrong."

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I found one of her interview comments refreshingly telling. "God chooses our rulers." Rulers. Authoritarianism. Dominionism. At least she admits it! Then again, she obviously believes that God has ordained her to be the next US Senator from Florida so she can be as impolitic as she wants, and perfectly forthright about her allegiance to the Rapture Wing of the Republican party.

And kudos to The Florida Baptist Witness for asking her only about the crucial issues facing our nation: abortion, gay marriage, Terri Schiavo. Besides why waste time asking how she'd vote on issues like an Iraq pullout, Social Security reform or oversight of the Executive branch anyway? It would just be whatever the God-ordained leadership told her.

Jeff said...

Alex, why do you hate America?

Anonymous said...

Jeff,

I hate america (lower-case 'a') for a variety of reasons delineated here. It looks like Wikipedia so it must be right.