Florida’s Harris under fresh fire
Harris, who as Florida’s secretary of state gained national attention during the disputed Florida presidential vote count in 2000, said her religious beliefs “animate” everything she does, including her votes in Congress.
She then warned voters that if they do not send Christians to office, they risk creating a government that is doomed to fail.
“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,” she told interviewers, pointing to abortion and gay marriage as examples of that sin.
“Whenever we legislate sin,” she said, “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.”
Harris also said the separation of church and state is a “lie we have been told” to keep religious people out of politics.
In reality, she said, “we have to have the faithful in government” because that is God’s will. Separating religion and politics is “so wrong because God is the one who chooses our rulers,” she said.
“And if we are the ones not actively involved in electing those godly men and women,” then “we’re going to have a nation of secular laws. That’s not what our founding fathers intended and that’s [sic] certainly isn’t what God intended.”
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From the original interview/survey (linked):
“Why should Florida Baptists care about this primary election?
They should care about this election period. I will tell you that everywhere I go throughout the state and even the nation, people say the pollsters, the politicians and spiritually—that Florida is the forerunner state. That what happens in Florida sets the trend for what happens nationally. And with this election, if Bill Nelson wins, it’s going to be a very frightening proposition in 2008 in the presidential elections because whoever wins Florida will win the presidency. And he’ll be in a position to largely influence. No other candidate can beat Bill Nelson except for me. No one even has a chance because of name identification and fund raising abilities and things like that. 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 alright. 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. …”
http://www.floridabaptistwitness.com/6298.article
It’s our Christian duty to vote on Sept. 5
By JAMES A. SMITH SR.
Executive Editor, Editorial
“the bottom line is—by whatever means it is done, I believe Christians who fail to vote are, in fact, sinning.
Have you ever considered the idea that it is a sin to fail to vote when you are qualified to do so? I believe it’s clear from Scripture that Christians should be the best citizens a nation has to offer. And in a nation such as ours, where the citizens direct the course of our government, the failure to participate in the most fundamental way we have to provide direction to our government cannot be seen to be anything less than a sin.
The witness of Scripture is that Christians are citizens simultaneously of two realms—the earthly nation of our birth (or naturalization) and the heavenly realm of the Kingdom of God. ”
http://www.floridabaptistwitness.com/6304.article
The most nauseating part of this whole disgusting assault on the nation is the patronizing notion that Christians have to rule those who “don’t know any better” (me).
Can there be any doubt that if Katherine Harris believed god chose Duhbya as our “ruler” that she would cheat in the 2000 election?
One hundred years from now, people will look back at evangelism as proof of our mental health crisis or too much lead in our water. mjh