Katherine Harris says failure to elect Christians will `legislate sin'

KRT Wire ^ | 8/25/2006 | Jim Stratton

[tkathy]

Religious supremicism doesn't belong in politics.

[BritExPatInFla]

How are those comments taken "out of context?". Her remarks would have been a master stroke had Florida only had Chritian voters on the rolls, but that's not the case. She just dug the hole a bit deepr to reach that 6 feet under where her campaign truly belongs.

[Hardastarboard]

"We do not live in a theocracy."

Probably the only absolutely true statement in the whole article. And we never will, despite what the DU'er / MoveOn idiots think the "Christian Right" wants.

[NittanyLion]

Katherine Harris is clearly not well. Let's hope she'll take the honorable route and step aside before the primary.

[RoadTest]

""What is going through this woman's mind?" said Slosberg. "We do not live in a theocracy.""

She hasn't read the writings of the founding fathers. This was founded a Christian nation. Every state in the Union mentions God in its preamble.

[Junior]

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.

This is the United States of America. We do not have "rulers." That this woman thinks those elected to represent us in the government are our "rulers" automatically disqualifies her from ever holding office in my view.

[Mojave]

naturally part of the Spanish civil law stayed in the code.

Code? Common law practice.

[Mojave]

Seeing as how you never responded to the post of mine immediately prior to my question (182), wherein I laid out a much larger portion of Jefferson's letter to Cartwright

False. I posted Story's reply.

[GSlob]

"Maybe God is telling Harris he wants her to lose the primary, and is putting words in her mouth to make that come real. "
Then He'd use some old trick from the book, like smiting her down with leprosy, killing the firstborns, setting up against her an adversary of the royal Idumean stock, or sending down a multi-year drought. But is smiting people with idiocy on the list?

[Senator Bedfellow]

False. I posted Story's reply.

LOL. If only you could insure that nobody goes back and checks the record, you might pull that off.

Fact: you never responded to 182. So I gave you something else to work with.

You're welcome.

[Wormwood]

This was founded a Christian nation. Every state in the Union mentions God in its preamble.

Do they mention Christ? Because that would be evidence of a "Christian nation", wouldn't it?

[highball]

(Slosberg) hasn't read the writings of the founding fathers. This was founded a Christian nation. Every state in the Union mentions God in its preamble.

Nonsense.

This was founded as a nation of secular laws.

Preambles are nice rhetorical flourishes, but even if we give them weight a reference to "God" isn't necessarily a reference to Christianity.

And when it came to actually setting out the system of government, in the Constitution, the Founders gave us - horrors! - a system of secular laws.

In fact, the Founders specifically prohibited the religious test that Harris insists they meant. Perhaps she has an "improved" version of the Constitution that she's like to show us? She claims to know more about the subject than the Founding Fathers do, after all.

She's eiether a nutbar, unfit for the office she seeks, or she's woefully ignorant of our system of government, and unfit for the office she seeks.

[Mojave]

Fact: you never responded to 182

Post 182 quoted an a portion of a letter which Story addressed. I had already quoted Story's response at length in Post 174.

Let me know when you catch your tail.

[Wormwood]

From the Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson:

Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed, by inserting the word "Jesus Christ," so that it should read, "a departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by a great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and Infidel of every denomination.

Emphasis mine.

[GSlob]

In the list of the Founding Fathers John Adams was among the dimmer bulbs. I'd take Jefferson over him 24/7/365.

[highball]

Thank you, Wormwood.

Now maybe someone will please tell Harris that, before she embarrasses herself again.

[GSlob]

"I doubt that anyone else you are calling a pagan, is one either."
Well, I appreciate Bacchus worship and willingly take part in it. Time for the morning prayer/libation.

[highball]

Amen, brother.

[Senator Bedfellow]

So, feeling that you'd already addressed it, you declined to respond to 182. And yet you complain incessantly when I provide a question you are willing to address, despite the fact that said question provides you with an excuse to continue the world-famous patent-pending Roscoe's Hand-tooled Argument-by-Soundbite® style you're so fond of?

Boy, that's gratitude for ya.

[MikefromOhio]

L 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.

Well at least she didn't hit us with the divine right of Congresscritters........

And now I think I understand why my conservative relatives down in Florida think this lady is a complete embarrassment. too bad it took a easily winnable Senate seat to bring this freak out.