Harris Has a Problem With Christians
Vice President Kamala Harris occasionally attends a Baptist church, but she still has a problem with Christians. So does her boss. Biden attends Mass regularly, but his rejection of Catholic moral teachings — on abortion, marriage, the family, and sexuality — makes practicing Catholics wonder about his bona fides.
When Harris was California’s attorney general, she persecuted pro-life activist David Daleiden. He used undercover videos to expose how abortion operatives harvest and sell aborted fetal organs. She authorized her office to raid his home — they seized his camera equipment and copies of revealing videos that implicated many of those who work in the abortion industry.
In her role as California attorney general, she sought to cripple crisis pregnancy centers through draconian regulations. Specifically, she supported a bill that would force these centers to inform clients where they could obtain an abortion. She was ultimately sued and lost before the Supreme Court three years later.
In February 2020, then-Sen. Harris voted against the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, a bill that would “prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion.” That’s called infanticide.
Also while in the Senate, Harris co-sponsored the Do No Harm Act and the Equality Act. Both bills would have weakened, or nullified, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, thus mandating that Catholic doctors and hospitals perform abortions and “sex-reassignment” surgeries.
Harris’ passion for abortion rights — she has never found a type she couldn’t justify — impels her to attack Catholic candidates for the federal bench. She did so most famously in late 2018 when she questioned Brian C. Buescher about his suitability to be a federal district judge. His membership in the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organization, raised a red flag for her.
Her question revealed her real target — the Catholic Church.
She asked: “Were you aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed a woman’s right to choose when you joined the organization?” Essentially, she was asking if someone who accepts the Catholic Church’s teaching on abortion — that child abuse begins in the womb — should be allowed to sit on the federal bench. She knows the Constitution bars a religious test to hold public office. This was her end run around it.
Harris was also upset that the Knights prohibit female membership. But several female religious groups ban men — the Jewish women’s group Hadassah and the Catholic Daughters of the Americas restrict membership to women. For that matter, so does the secular League of Women Voters. None of those organizations are a problem for Harris. Just Catholic fraternal ones.
Harris refused to attend the Al Smith Dinner, letting Catholics know what she thinks about them. However, she never misses a Hollywood dinner. Those are her ideological next of kin — not Catholics.
When a couple of Christian young people shouted “Christ is King” at a recent Wisconsin rally, Harris could have ignored them. After all, whenever left-wing pro-Hamas protesters shout her down, she simply says that she has the right to speak. But she couldn’t help scolding the Christians by saying, “You guys are at the wrong rally.” She was right about that — Christians are not welcome at her events.
Harris is losing to Trump 52–47 among Catholics. This was before she snubbed New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan by blowing off the Al Smith Dinner and before she mocked Christian students.
No one truly believes that Trump is a deeply religious man. He admits as much. But his policies are clearly religion-friendly. The same is not true for Harris. She is wedded to the Biden–Harris record. A record that pales in significance to what Trump accomplished for religious freedom during his administration. In fact, the gulf between the two is so broad that there really isn’t a comparison.
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