Sharron Angle’s take on separation of church and state

[babylonsister]

Sharron Angle’s take on separation of church and state
Candidate insists that founders intended for religion to guide policy

By Anjeanette Damon (contact)

Sunday, July 18, 2010 | 2 a.m.


Reno — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle describes her motivation for seeking elected office as a religious calling.

Politics, including her bid to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, is God’s purpose for her life — one he has long been preparing her for, she says.

“When God calls you, he also equips you and he doesn’t just say ‘Well, today you’re going to run against Harry Reid.’ There is a preparation,” she said during a recent interview on the Christian Broadcasting Network. “Moses had his preparatory time. Paul had his preparatory time. Even Jesus had his preparatory time, and so my preparation began on a school board.”

Although those remarks triggered surprise and even outrage last week, people familiar with Angle’s career in public life understood.

A Southern Baptist active in her church, Angle’s religious convictions have informed many of her positions throughout her years in politics. She believes abortion is a violation of God’s will and should be banned in all cases. She argued for the religious freedom of private and home schools. And she has said that public policy should support the “traditional” family structure as described in the Bible, in which one parent stays home with the children while the other works.

Indeed, although many Americans view the separation of church and state as one of the keys to the nation’s success as a multicultural society, Angle believes that religion has an expansive role to play in government. And, she has repeatedly said anyone who opposes that based on the claim of separation of church and state misunderstands the Constitution’s ban on “establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

In this regard, Angle’s view of religion’s role in government parallels that of a religious political movement — Christian Reconstructionism — seeking to return American civil society to biblical law.

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/jul/18/angle-tries-erase-line/

[Historic NY]

1. So she'd be in favor of Sharia too.

[davidinalameda]

2. she's comparing herself to Jesus?

she is a loon

[jaxx]

3. That puts her right up there with Huckabee and his bible state.

“I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that’s what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards.”
–Huckabee

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2008/01/15/huckabee-base-constitution-on-bible/

These people should never, never have any authority. They are nuts.

[MadMaddie]

4. Sharon Angle = The Handmaids Tale

If you haven't read it you should.....

[hobbit709]

5. Jesus, save us from your fanatical believers.

[Enthusiast]

10. Good prayer. nt

[countingbluecars]

6. Yikes

Let's hope she's toast!

[izquierdista]

7. Sharron, phone....I think it's God again

[BzaDem]

8. There's no difference between Dems and Repubs. They're one and the same.

:sarcasm:

More gems from that article:

"Under Reconstructionist thought, government should have no role in education, safety net benefits such as Social Security or welfare, or in environmental protection. Angle has similarly advocated those positions."

Disturbing.

[babylonsister]

9. It's hard to believe anyone in NV buys this, especially

the beneficiaries of the gov't programs. Can they not possibly know what she advocates?

[DirkGently]

11. The nuts are coming back out of their caves and swamps

proudly, as they did under G.W. They sense this is their moment. They're wrong.

[kestrel91316]

12. What a disgusting, monumental ego. She's comparing herself to Moses,

Paul, and Jesus.

[ljm2002]

13. She's a piece of work all right...

...but what I really want to know, is where exactly in the Bible does it describe "...the “traditional” family structure as described in the Bible, in which one parent stays home with the children while the other works."

Seriously, I would like chapter and verse on this. I've seen in the Bible where there are polygamous marriages, and various unions between one man and one woman; but I don't recall ever reading where "one parent stays home with the children while the other works".

In other words, it seems to me that Angle and her ilk just make shit up about the Bible and then use it to bonk people over the head with it.