by Robert Spencer, New American Prophet, ©2024
(Sep. 3, 2024) — And she’s just what you’d expect her to be.
The Harris campaign is working hard to attract the Christian vote. This has gone so far as to portray the candidate, who hasn’t exactly been known for her piety, as a woman of profound faith: “Kamala’s life of public service is a reflection of her faith in Christ,” says Evangelicals For Harris, and the leftist intelligentsia, whose contempt for Christianity is abundantly documented, nods sagely.
Apparently aware that its Saint Kamala act might not fly with the American people, the Harris camp has hired a cleric to convince Christians to vote for Harris and Walz. She is about what you’d expect.
Fox News reported Thursday that Harris hired the Rev. Jennifer Butler, who founded a group called Faith in Public Life, which says that it is working to advance a “moral imperative for a just, inclusive, and equitable country.” “Just” isn’t so bad in itself, but those who are used to the left’s rhetorical tricks will spot “inclusive” and “equitable” as red flags.
For the Harris-Walz camp, “inclusive” means that special preference is given to the left’s protected victim groups, and “equitable” means that you’d better have your checkbook ready to fork over your hard-earned money to the assortment of far-left leeches, con artists, hacks and faddists that President Joy thinks deserve the fruits of your labor more than you do.
Nonetheless, in a Wednesday interview with Religion News Service, Butler insists that she can be a “bridge-builder” between patriotic and leftist Christians. For her, this seems to mean bringing Christians together around a shared hatred of the Bad Orange Man: “I also recognize that we’re at a pivotal moment in American democracy where faith voices for justice are needed now more than ever,” she says. “The Harris-Walz campaign is a really unique opportunity to shift the debate, to engage all of those who are concerned about what a Trump presidency would mean, the work of this campaign, and what it can do to transform America.” It’s a Harris transformation of America in a Marxist direction, not a Trump transformation of the nation into a more stable and secure republic, that worries patriots, but that fact eludes the Rev. Butler.
Butler is much more concerned about the health of “our democracy,” a phrase that leftists use to refer to their hegemony if Trump wins. In 2022, she declared that “more Christians must step up. We must do more than just watch the January 6th hearings aghast. We cannot allow our faith to continue to be hijacked by white supremacists covered in religious language. For the sake of our faith and our democracy, we must denounce Christian nationalism and reclaim a faith that values and affirms the human dignity of all people. Including our own.” Yeah, smearing Trump and his supporters as “insurrectionists” and “white supremacists,” that’s sure to build bridges between patriots and leftists.
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