Harris’ push to the pews

She disrespects people who act on their faith

Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris is with her husband, Doug Emhoff, and Democrat vice presidential nominee Tim Walz is with his wife, Gwen, after Harris’ speech in Chicago on August 22. Kamala Harris/Facebook

Any follower of Jesus Christ aware of Evangelicals for Harris may find it satire, or perhaps a skit by the Babylon Bee.

You would be mistaken because just as the GOP removed the abortion plank, potentially discouraging a bloc of voters who overwhelmingly vote right of center, Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris is making a play for “evangelicals.”

Many believe if she can get 20 percent, as President Joe Biden received 24 percent in 2020, Harris could win the presidency.

That’s why the group Evangelicals for Harris needs intense scrutiny–based on Kamala Harris’ own public record, not the version being projected by her acolytes with Evangelicals for Harris.

Read Harris' faith story. Her favorite verse is 2 Corinthians 5:7. And her pastor calls her an encourager. The following is where her public record demands attention:

While a deeply committed and faithful Christian, Vice President Harris has great respect for other faith traditions. Her mother Shyamala Gopalan and relatives in India took her to Hindu temples. She joins her husband, Doug Emhoff, in Jewish traditions and celebrations.

The words ooze with fellowship and a feeling she’s a “sister of Christ.” Only God can judge her spiritual state, but wise voters must examine her “great respect for other faith traditions.” Do her public actions match the rhetoric? 

No.

But first a little “evangelical” history. Britannica.com says that the word evangelical comes from the Greek euangelion, and Latin evangelium words for “good news,” which became the word gospel,” the good news of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Evangelicals have had various nuances of this movement since it emerged in the 1500s, attached to people, such as the late Rev. Billy Graham, or colleges connected to the movement. In more recent years, however, “evangelical" is devoid of meaning as it has a political meaning as pollsters identify “self-identified evangelicals.” 

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Evangelicals for Harris are trusting low-information evangelicals get their ears tickled and react emotionally, not based on Harris’ lengthy public record that disrespects people whose faith impacts how they live.

As a U.S. Senator, Harris was anti-Catholic and created a religious litmus test for Brian Buescher, a federal District Court nominee. Harris put the following written question to him:

Since 1993, you have been a member of the Knights of Columbus, an all-male society comprised primarily of Catholic men. In 2016, Carl Anderson, leader of the Knights of Columbus, described abortion as ‘a legal regime that has resulted in more than 40 million deaths.’ Mr. Anderson went on to say that ‘abortion is the killing of the innocent on a massive scale.’ Were you aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed a woman’s right to choose when you joined the organization?

A religious litmus test is anti-American. 

Harris has a track record of doing the opposite of what Evangelicals for Harris wants people to swallow, as Kenneth Craycraft reported in First Things.

In 2016, the Center for Medical Progress exposed Planned Parenthood for harvesting the organs or aborted babies for profit. As California attorney general, Harris went after CMP’s David Daleiden. Craycraft reported “seizing video footage substantiating the evidence. Subsequently, Harris’s office conspired with Planned Parenthood, one of her generous political supporters, in drafting bill-of-attainder style legislation against CMP.”

The groundwork for this behavior took root in California by going after anyone who dared have a perspective focused on the sanctity of life on abortion. If you have a differing viewpoint, Harris will silence you, punish you, or compel you to violate your conscience.

Craycraft also reported:

Similarly, in 2015, Harris was an enthusiastic advocate of California’s so-called Reproductive FACT Act, which forced pro-life pregnancy centers to inform their clients where they could obtain free abortions and to advertise abortion clinics. Claiming to have “co-sponsored” the FACT Act, Harris praised then California governor Jerry Brown for signing it into law. . . . And in 2015, she used her power as California attorney general to put six Catholic hospitals out of business on behalf of another of her political patrons, the Service Employees International Union. 

As a U.S. senator, Harris introduced the Orwellian “Do No Harm Act,” the purpose of which is to force religious individuals and organizations to engage in activities that directly violate their firmly held religious beliefs. . . . 

Nothing says “respecting people’s faith” like attempting to compel them to violate their conscience.

The Biden-Harris Department of Justice also has gone after more than a dozen pro-lifers from various faith traditions for singing and praying at abortion clinics.

Given Harris’anti-Christian record, Evangelicals for Harris have some serious questions to answer. An exhaustive, but not complete list, includes:

• How evangelical is abortion to the point of birth?

• How evangelical is allowing babies born alive from botched abortions to not receive care as happened in Minnesota?

• How evangelical is a Planned Parenthood mobile abortion clinic at the DNC?

• How evangelical is a religious litmus test for service as a judge?

• How evangelical is it to go after a person who exposed federal crimes by Planned Parenthood?

• How evangelical is it to go after people peacefully protesting abortions?

• How evangelical is allowing biological males in women’s sports and women’s bathrooms and locker rooms? 

• How evangelical is surgery that mutilates children?

• How evangelical are crime policies that let perpetrators out of jail?

• How evangelical is it to allow unaccompanied alien children to land in human trafficking?

Evangelicals for Harris like the mile-wide-and-inch-deep piety until Harris confronts a person of faith who acts on abortion.

Harris possesses a form of godliness–according to the world–but denies its power, as 2 Tim. 3:5 states. 

The apostle Paul warns believers to avoid these people.