God's Own Party seems to forget that God established a legal code, but they seem to only want to legislate the fun parts:"
The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate also said that if Christians are not elected to political office politicians will "legislate sin," citing abortion and gay marriage as two examples in an interview published Thursday.
Harris made the comments - which she clarified Saturday - in the Florida Baptist Witness, the weekly journal of the Florida Baptist State Convention. The publication interviewed political candidates, asking them questions about religion and their positions on issues.
Separation of church and state is "a lie we have been told," Harris said in the interview, adding that separating religion and politics is "wrong because God is the one who chooses our rulers."
If you attempt to legislate on God's behalf, then refuse to legislate according to the standards that God put down, does that not make you a blasphemer? You are crediting your action to following God's standards, then deliberately refuse to follow some of them. Last I checked, that's a textbook example of blasphemy right there.
I wonder if she'd be happy about reestablishing the death penalty for adultery or having consistently unruly, disrespectful children? Damn, wouldn't that end up killing off half of the kids in this country today? I think she just wants to be able to exercise the "Yates Option" with her kids the next time they talk back to her.
But that's just me...
...It just comes from a lack of knowledge, or understanding, Mike.
(Hosea 4:6 -- My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.)
I saw the piece, and wanted to cut her some slack. She's still got a long ways to go, but at least seems to be TRYING to do a little study, which is more than I can say for 99.9% of the rest of the District of Criminals. Maybe she'll even pull out a copy of the Constitution someday...
The very fact that she wants to legislate such things from the Congress indicates that she'll probably only read bits and pieces of it by accident as she wipes her ass with it. Marriage has no business being defined at the federal level.
"Marriage has no business being defined at the federal level."
And on THAT score, Mike, you know we are in 100% agreement!