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Here's Why Allowing Churches To Endorse Candidates Is A Terrible Idea
The Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins celebrated conservative turnout in Tuesday’s primary elections in an email to members yesterday, taking special note of the upset win of Mike Harris, a member of FRC’s “Watchmen on the Wall” network of right-wing pastors, who defeated incumbent Republican Rep. Robert Pittenger in North Carolina’s 9th congressional district.
“There is no realm that God has made an exception for that He doesn’t intend for believers to be salt and light,” Harris told the Christian Broadcasting Network after his primary win. “Every arena God expects us to be engaged.”
Not surprisingly, Harris has a track record of opposing LGBTQ equality and abortion rights. Harris was an ally of the anti-LGBTQ Benham brothers in opposition to a Charlotte nondiscrimination law, and he was a driving force behind the campaign that put a ban on same-sex couples getting married into the state constitution; his First Baptist Church contributed more than $50,000 to the campaign. Harris, who says being gay is “a choice,” has said the anti-equality amendment was not about discrimination but about “standing up for the values and principles that have been a part of the fabric of American society.”
Both candidates had embraced Trump, but Harris had described Pittenger as a creature of the Washington swamp and called the primary a battle for “the heart and soul of the Republican Party.” He has praised new state-level restrictions on abortion and called for conservative Supreme Court justices who will revisit Roe v Wade so that the law can recognize that “life begins with conception” and extend legal protections to the “unborn.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/frc-watchmen-pastor-knocks-off-incumbent-congressman-in-north-carolina-gop-primary/
“There is no realm that God has made an exception for that He doesn’t intend for believers to be salt and light,” Harris told the Christian Broadcasting Network after his primary win. “Every arena God expects us to be engaged.”
Not surprisingly, Harris has a track record of opposing LGBTQ equality and abortion rights. Harris was an ally of the anti-LGBTQ Benham brothers in opposition to a Charlotte nondiscrimination law, and he was a driving force behind the campaign that put a ban on same-sex couples getting married into the state constitution; his First Baptist Church contributed more than $50,000 to the campaign. Harris, who says being gay is “a choice,” has said the anti-equality amendment was not about discrimination but about “standing up for the values and principles that have been a part of the fabric of American society.”
Both candidates had embraced Trump, but Harris had described Pittenger as a creature of the Washington swamp and called the primary a battle for “the heart and soul of the Republican Party.” He has praised new state-level restrictions on abortion and called for conservative Supreme Court justices who will revisit Roe v Wade so that the law can recognize that “life begins with conception” and extend legal protections to the “unborn.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/frc-watchmen-pastor-knocks-off-incumbent-congressman-in-north-carolina-gop-primary/
Fuck the Family Research Council.
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