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By: Joshua Arnold, originally published October 28, 2024, The Washington Stand<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presidential candidate Kamala Harris continued her efforts to woo churchgoers on Sunday, with an\u00a0appearance<\/a>\u00a0at the Church of Christian Compassion in Philadelphia. Her last-minute, \u201csouls-to-the-polls\u201d campaign in historically black churches comes as up to 40 million self-identified Christians plan not to vote in the upcoming election,\u00a0according<\/a>\u00a0to a recent George Barna survey. Harris\u2019s church-focused push\u00a0began<\/a>\u00a0three days after she\u00a0ejected<\/a>\u00a0two rallygoers who exclaimed, \u201cJesus is Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Harris campaign has struggled to sell churchgoing voters on their candidate, in large part due to the fact that they lack a product this audience wants. \u201cThe sole issue that Kamala Harris has been running on\u201d is abortion,\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0David Closson, director of Family Research Council\u2019s Center for Biblical Worldview, on \u201cWashington Watch\u201d Friday. \u201cThis really is the only issue [on which] she has been consistent and clear and energetic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a characteristic rally in Texas on Friday, Harris took the stage with pop megastar Beyonce \u201cwhere pretty much \u2026 the main issue that they campaigned on is abortion,\u201d Closson described. \u201cIn 2016, Hillary Clinton became the first nominee to come out publicly and say she would be in favor of getting rid of the Hyde Amendment,\u201d he added. But \u201cHillary Clinton\u2019s position on abortion looks tame in comparison to the Harris-Walz ticket. They are the most ardent, energetic [abortion] supporters \u2026 to ever run for president and vice president of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris underscored her commitment to absolute abortion in a recent\u00a0sit-down interview<\/a>\u00a0with NBC\u2019s Hallie Jackson. When Jackson asked what concessions Harris would consider as president to win codified abortion protections from a hypothetical Republican-controlled Congress, Harris first avoided the question so obviously that Jackson asked the question again, \u201cSo [it\u2019s] a question of pragmatism then: What concessions would be on the table? Religious exemptions, for example, is that something that you would consider?\u201d Harris finally replied, \u201cI don\u2019t think we should be making concessions when we\u2019re talking about a fundamental freedom to make decisions about your own body.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The question was designed as an easy lay-up. Harris was given an opportunity to position herself as a pragmatic, bipartisan negotiator, while at the same time planting a flag for hypothetical negotiations next year. On the second pass, Jackson lowered the difficulty further, signaling that this was a \u201cquestion of pragmatism\u201d and proposing an example of a relatively painless concession that Harris could latch onto. Yet Harris refused to budge even an inch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn one sense, she\u2019s been consistent,\u201d responded Closson. \u201cWhen she was a senator, she voted against the Pain-Capable Act that would have provided protections for babies when they can feel pain. She voted against a piece of legislation that would provide legal protections for babies who survive botched abortions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf Harris is in the Oval Office on January 20th, the abortion lobby will have the most energetic supporter that they have ever had,\u201d he added. \u201cClearly, according to Kamala Harris, even our first freedom is not as important as the sacrament of abortion. \u2026 Abortion has been elevated to this almost quasi-religious position in the modern-day Democratic Party.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abortion is the lead role in a cast encompassing the entire Sexual Revolution. Closson noted how Harris and other progressives in Congress support the poorly named Equality Act, a bill \u201cthat would prioritize these contested claims of sexual orientation and gender identity\u201d so that they would take precedence \u201cwhenever they come into conflict with a religious liberty claim.\u201d When Harris first ran for president in 2019, she\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0on a candidate questionnaire that gender \u201ctransition treatment\u201d was \u201ca medical necessity,\u201d which taxpayers should fund for prisoners and illegal immigrants in federal custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This issue is less popular than abortion, so it isn\u2019t one Harris likes to talk about. Yet Jackson gave Harris an opportunity to stake out a more moderate position in this election, asking, \u201cDo you believe that transgender Americans should have access to gender-affirming care in this country?\u201d Harris responded, \u201cI believe we should follow the law.\u201d Again, Jackson gently pressed and Harris again deflected, \u201cI\u2019m not going to put myself in the position of a doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sexual libertinism of the Harris campaign\u2019s closing pitch is underscored by a pro-pornography advertisement that Democrat-aligned super-PACs\u00a0intend<\/a>\u00a0to run in the seven key swing states in the final week before Election Day. In a desperate attempt to scoop up disinclined male voters, the ad suggests that Republican politicians will ban pornography. (This is untrue; some GOP-controlled state legislators have merely required age verification to prevent minors \u2014 that is, non-voters \u2014 from accessing pornographic sites.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you imagine if Harris brought this pitch to the pulpit? \u201cVote a blue ticket. We\u2019ll keep porn legal.\u201d The parents training their 10-year-olds to pay attention during \u201cBig Church\u201d would be outraged. Miss Tamara, the semi-retired potluck hostess in the stylish hat, might faint right there in the pews. But the recently divorced young women \u2014 perhaps some with children \u2014 whose ex-husbands refused to kill their sinful addiction might be the most grieved of all. These are, admittedly, stereotypes; in reality, a\u00a0shift in trends<\/a>\u00a0means that young men are more likely to be in church than young women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really frightening how many of these issues directly oppose biblical teaching,\u201d responded Family Research Council Action President Jody Hice. \u201cAnd they\u2019re entrenched and embracing those things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe just need to be really clear as Christians,\u201d declared Closson. \u201cThere are issues of clear biblical morality on the ballot: abortion, sexuality, marriage, a host of other issues.\u201d The Bible addresses these fundamental moral issues in multiple places, but Paul\u2019s letter to the church in Corinth may be the most succinct: \u201cDo you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God\u201d (1 Corinthians 6:9-10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhy do we care about politics? Why do we need to be out there voting?\u201d Closson continued. \u201cOne, a love of neighbor. \u2026 Can you say that you comprehensively love your neighbor if you\u2019re not engaging in the process that affects our basic rights and liberties and our freedoms?\u201d A second reason, he added, is stewardship. \u201cGod calls us to be faithful stewards of everything he\u2019s entrusted us with. And I think for those of us \u2026 who live in the United States \u2026 we need to be good stewards of our vote.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s clear that Vice President Harris is making a pitch for churchgoing voters. It\u2019s less clear whether it will succeed. It may come down to whether churchgoers want to buy the vision of America that Harris is selling. After Harris\u2019s second deflection on the question of abortion concessions, NBC interviewer Jackson gave a response that may prove ominously fitting, \u201cI will move on. But I don\u2019t know that I heard a clear answer from you on the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joshua Arnold is a senior writer at The Washington Stand.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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