Remember Katherine Harris, the creepy-looking Republican secretary of state for Florida, who– as much as any other person– made possible George W. Bush’s 2000 victory in Florida and thus, his election as President?
Harris went on to be elected to Congress from Sarasota, and this year is seeking the Republican nomination for US Senator.
Now The Orlando Sentinel reports:
[H]arris… said this week that God did not intend for the United States to be a “nation of secular laws” and that the separation of church and state is a “lie we have been told” to keep religious people out of politics.
“If you’re not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin,” Harris told interviewers from the Florida Baptist Witness, the weekly journal of the Florida Baptist State Convention. She cited abortion and same-sex marriage as examples of that sin.
Harris, a candidate in the Sept. 5 Republican primary for U.S. Senate, said her religious beliefs “animate” everything she does, including her votes in Congress.
Witness editors interviewed candidates for office, asking them to describe their faith and their positions on certain issues.
Harris has always professed a deep Christian faith. But she has rarely expressed such a fervent evangelical perspective publicly.
Political and religious officials responded to her published remarks with outrage and dismay.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said she was “disgusted” by the comments “and deeply disappointed in Representative Harris personally.”
Harris, Wasserman Schultz said, “clearly shows that she does not deserve to be a representative.”
Ruby Brooks, a veteran Tampa Bay Republican activist, said Harris’s remarks “were offensive to me as a Christian and a Republican.”
May her future in politics be a short one.
