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August 25, 2006

Kathryn Harris Wants a Theocracy

A new interview with Kathryn Harris confirms the fears of many who fear a coming theocracy. Harris, a member of Calvary Chapel in Sarasota, believes that Christians must impose their faith on the country through the passage of biblical-based laws. She says it herself:

What role do you think people of faith should play in politics and government?

The Bible says we are to be salt and light. And salt and light means not just in the church and not just as a teacher or as a pastor or a banker or a lawyer, but in government and we have to have elected officials in government and we have to have the faithful in government and over time, that lie we have been told, the separation of church and state, people have internalized, thinking that they needed to avoid politics and that is so wrong because God is the one who chooses our rulers. And if we are the ones not actively involved in electing those godly men and women and if people aren’t involved in helping godly men in getting elected than we’re going to have a nation of secular laws. That’s not what our founding fathers intended and that’s certainly isn’t what God intended. So it’s really important that members of the church know people’s stands. It’s really important that they get involved in campaigns. … [W]e need the faithful and we need to take back this country. It’s time that the churches get involved. Pastors, from the pulpit, can invite people to speak, not on politics, but of their faith. But they can discern, they can ask those people running for election, in the pulpit, what is your position on gay marriage? What is your position on abortion? That is totally permissible in 5013C organizations. They simply cannot endorse from the pulpit. And that’s why I’ve gone to churches and I’ve spoken in four churches, five churches a day on Sunday and people line up afterwards because it’s so important that they know. And if we don’t get involved as Christians then how could we possibly take this back?

In response to a later question as to why Baptists and other people should care who is elected in Florida, she states that Florida sets the tone for the rest of the country, and continues:

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. ...

I think someone needs to sit this poor dear down and set her straight on what the Founding Fathers actually intended for this country. She's taking her beliefs about what applies to the family and the church and applying them to the entire country, which was never what was intended. Thankfully, she's a marginalized candidate who is highly unlikely to win; however, she is clearly spreading her views to a willing audience and the danger in the future that Christendom will endorse and accept theocratic rule in the United States should cause grave concern.

Posted by Becky at August 25, 2006 10:13 AM