ORLANDO, Fla. – Rep. Katherine Harris sought Saturday to smother a campaign brushfire stoked by an earlier claim that failure to elect Christians to public office would allow lawmakers to "legislate sin."Harris, appearing at a gun show in Orlando, said she did not mean to offend non-Christians in her comments to the Florida Baptist Witness last week. She explained that she referred exclusively – and repeatedly – to Christians because she was being interviewed by the weekly journal of the Florida Baptist State Convention.
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Harris ignited a furor with her Witness interview. She sounded a fervent evangelical tone, saying that God "chooses our rulers," that voters needed to send Christians to political office and that God did not intend for the United States to be a "nation of secular laws."
Speaking to Witness editors, Harris said:
"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."
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Saturday, Harris did not apologize but said, "it breaks my heart" if people were upset with her interview. She said "it wasn't my intent" to "section out Christians."
Though Harris directly addressed her remarks about church and state, she was less clear explaining her comments about God not intending for the United States to be "a nation of secular laws."
Asked if the U.S. should be a secular country, Harris said: "I think that our laws, I mean, I look at how the law originated, even from Moses, the 10 Commandments. And I don't believe, that uh . . . That's how all of our laws originated in the United States, period. I think that's the basis of our rule of law."
Whatta nutter. Attending gun shows to both campaign and "clear up" the confusion over her statements about the need for Christian only elected officials? Then, instead of providing an appropriate explanation, she's proves she has absolutely no grasp on the belief systems of the founding fathers, the rule of law or the judiciary. It's no wonder her respect for the elections in Miami couldn't raise a blip on an electroencephlagram, she was waiting for guidance from her maker and in the absence of that... the Bush family.
Her campaign has become truly faith based... nothing short of a miracle is going to get her a Senate seat.