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. . .Americans know a lot about the faith background of Vice President Mike Pence. He has made his faith central to his public persona as a politician. Most of us do not know as much about the faith of Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate, Senator Kamala Harris. However, this is not because Harris lacks faith or hasn’t spoken about her faith in public.

Harris has been vocal about her faith, both about its role in her upbringing and in her approach to public policy. She has just gone about explaining it differently than Vice President Pence has. . . .

1. SENATOR KAMALA HARRIS GREW UP IN AN INTERFAITH HOUSEHOLD

Senator Harris’s father, Donald Harris, grew up in Jamaica and her mother, Shymala Gopalan, called Chennai, India home. They met when they were graduate students at the University of California. Her mother’s Hindu background is reflected in her name. “Kamala” means “lotus” in Sanskrit and is another name for the Hindu goddess Lakshmi. According to the Associated Press, she said that her mother took her and his sister Maya to a Hindu temple “to see that all faiths teach us to pursue justice.”

Her parents divorced when she was seven, which meant that she was primarily raised in churches in Oakland and Berkeley. When she was younger, two neighbors, Regina and Arthur Shelton, ran a daycare and after-school program in their home. Harris and her sister Maya went straight to their home after school in the afternoons and became close with the family. In an op-ed for Deseret News, she spoke of how her mother would dress the girls and send them off with the Sheltons to attend the 23rd Avenue Church of God in Oakland.

2. KAMALA HARRIS IS A MEMBER OF A BAPTIST CHURCH

In August 2020, a Facebook user named Terry Brown posted on Facebook that “Kamala Harris refused to be sworn in using the Bible” when she took the oath to become a Senator. The post was shared almost 10,000 times. USA Today fact-checked Brown’s post and found the photo of Harris’s swearing-in ceremony. Vice President Biden administered the oath of office and Senator Harris’s hand was on a “long-kept family Bible” held by her husband, Doug Emhoff.

Senator Harris is a member of the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco. Her pastor, Rev. Amos Brown has often voiced the sincerity of her faith. He told the Associated Press that she was “a spiritual person” and “a quintessential scholar.”  Rev. Brown also told CNN commentator and former White House advisor Joshua Dubois that she is the best of the Martin Luther King and Gandhi tradition, explaining that she is “an activist, thinker, and fighter.” He also confirmed that she attends church regularly.

3. SENATOR KAMALA HARRIS CONNECTS HER FAITH TO CARING FOR THE VULNERABLE

Harris is firmly rooted in the Black church, especially its emphasis on justice and liberation for the oppressed and care for the poor. She said of her time at the 23rd Avenue Church of God as a girl that, “my earliest memories of the Bible’s teachings were of a loving God, a God who asked us to serve and stand up for others, especially those who were not wealthy or powerful. It was where I learned that “faith” is a verb – that we must live out our faith and show faith in action.”

In speeches on the campaign trail and in her writing, Harris frequently references the parable of the Good Samaritan. She said, “For me, living and leading with my faith means heeding the lesson of the good Samaritan, a story which, at its core, is about who we choose to see as our neighbor. It teaches us that my neighbor is not just someone who lives down the block or in my same ZIP code. We are all each other’s neighbors, and we are called to look out for each other.”

4. KAMALA HARRIS REJECTS MANY CONSERVATIVE APPEALS TO RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN CASES OF CONSCIENCE

As Attorney General of California, Senator Harris wrote an amicus brief, co-authored by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, which asked the Supreme Court to overturn the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in the Hobby Lobby case. The Tenth Circuit’s ruling, which was upheld by the Supreme Court, found that the privately-owned company did not have to pay for contraceptive coverage because it violated the owner’s religious beliefs.

In 2019, Senator Harris also introduced the Do No Harm Act. This legislation was designed to “amend the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) to ensure that the law can no longer be invoked to threaten fundamental civil and legal rights. Since its inception, RFRA has been used to discriminate against and harm others, including LGBTQ individuals, women, and children.” Instead of using the First Amendment’s language of the free exercise of religion, she said, “The freedom to worship is one of our nation’s most fundamental rights.” She then went on to argue that freedom of “worship” “should never be used to undermine other Americans’ civil rights or subject them to discrimination on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity.”

(Excerpt from Christian Headlines. Article by Scott Slayton. Photo Credit: Getty Images.)

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Vilma
October 26, 2020

Father God I ask President Trump and Vice President Pence will have 4 more years in the white house. I declare and decree President Trump and Vice President Pence the victors on November 3,2020 Election. In Jesus name. Amen.

Christa
October 24, 2020

Just look at these videos on YouTube in order to know the truth about Kamala Harris.
Everything about her is a total insult to the Baptist Church. If she were a sheep in my church, I would oblige her to make a decision between two options:
1) Convert from the heart to Jesus Christ, as her Savior and also as her Lord, i.e. the One to Whom she confers the right to rule and reign in her life, and comply to His rules, which means obey God’s Word!

or:

2) Leave the church where I am the pastor.
In my congregation, I would not tolerate any person who just puts up a pious front, but in reality is an abomination to God and makes every effort to take multitudes with her to hell with her policies!
Nor would I want to run the risk of giving the impression that I as a pastor, will tolerate her in my congregation and even speak highly about her, expecting that she as a prominent person, will attract more people to my church, so my congregation will grow, with all the benefits that will bring about.
Look up what John the Baptist called the Pharisees when they pretended to desired to be baptized! I would say the same to Kamala Harris.

YouTube Videos that reveal the truth about this false Baptist:
David Daleiden on Kamala Harris and Planned Parenthood
We sit down with David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress on what he wants you to know about presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her connections to Planned Parenthood.

Giuliani rips Kamala Harris over her criminal justice record

Kamala Harris’ Prosecutors Sent This Innocent Man to Prison

Kamala Harris Hopes You’ll Forget Her Record as a Drug Warrior & Draconian Prosecutor

Tulsi Gabbard rips Kamala Harris’ record on criminal prosecutions

Tulsi Gabbard sounds off after ripping Kamala Harris at debate

Kamala Harris’ Corruption EXPOSED

There are many more. I just picked a few. Watching these, I encourage to ponder on what God might think of her, and where she would take America if put in office. God save America!

Mari
October 23, 2020

Matthew 7:15-20
You Will Know Them by Their Fruits –
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

Thou shalt not kill;
You shall not murder or You shall not kill is a moral imperative included as one of the Ten Commandments in the Torah (Exodus 20:13).
The imperative not to kill is in the context of unlawful killing resulting in blood guilt.
Killing an innocent helpless baby in their mother’s womb is beyond wicked.
If she obviously doesn’t care about the excruciating suffering of unborn babies, why would you trust her to care about you?

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Delois
October 23, 2020

WOW! I am confused. Does she read the same Bible that I read? It seems that her being spiritual means acts of social justice rather than obedience to a righteous, holy, creator of life God.
Going to church and doing good does not earn us a relationship with God. Jesus said that He is the way, the truth, and the life, and that no one comes to the Father but through him.
Lord, please, I pray for Kamala, and the others like her, to see that Jesus is the way and there is no other. How many folks attend church faithfully, but their pastors do not speak the gospel clearly and with power? Father, I grieve for these people, and I am frustrated with these pastors. Father, bring another Great Awakening to our America as You have done before!
Does she not understand that abortion is the shedding of innocent blood!? Does she not understand that LBGTQ is an abomination to the Lord? Please, Abba Father, I ask that she experience a revelation of truth that will bring her to repentance for the things that she has stood for and influenced others to do wrong.

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Phyllis Kutz
October 23, 2020

If Harris is a Baptist; then how can she stand against God and endorse everything that is an abomination to Him? This is propaganda and a lie from the pit of Hell. She is of her father the Devil; he is a liar and the father of lies and there is NO TRUTH in him [or her]. She needs big time deliverance from the evil she is blinded by.

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Sherry Mallory
October 23, 2020

In this spiritual battle, Holy Spirit, stir the seeds You planted in Kamala Harris’ spirit and cause her to have an encounter with Jesus. Minister to her soul and reveal Godly truths. Lord, bind every evil spirits that influence her, and fill her with Your light. Deliver her from the strongholds that entangle her and bring her to her knees in humble submission to her Savior. In the mighty name of Jesus. Declaring that nothing is impossible for our God

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