Kamala’s Recent Comments Rejecting Religious Exemptions for Abortion Should Alarm All Christians—And Especially Baptists
There’s no question that Kamala Harris is the most radical candidate ever to seek the office of President of the United States. However, with less than two weeks to go until election day, she has been racing to downplay or reverse nearly every progressive policy position she has held in a cynical play for moderates, independents, and even religiously minded voters. But the mask slipped in a recently televised interview with NBC News.
And from behind it, a Molech-worshipping totalitarian peered out.
Kamala Makes It Clear: Abortion Matters More to Her Than the First Amendment
The bluff failed when Kamala was asked about her position on the issue she seems to get most fired up about, namely abortion. After all, there’s nothing quite like an undying passion for killing babies. Kamala is already on record supporting abortion through all nine months, with no restrictions, and codifying this position nationally through legislation. She also believes, in line with the Democratic party since Obama, that taxpayers should pay for abortions.
Extreme, right? In fact, the only way she could get more radical on abortion would be to come out in favor of post-birth infanticide or choose a running mate who legalized such infanticide when he was governor of Minnesota. Oh, wait. She did that with Tim Walz.
Maybe to get even more extreme, she could pick up where Obama left off in his persecution of the Catholic nuns known as the “Little Sisters of the Poor” and try to coerce religious conservatives who rightly despise abortion into participating in it.
Buckle up.
To her credit, NBC News’s Hallie Jackson asked Kamala point-blank about how she would treat those who disagreed with her about abortion if she succeeded in legalizing abortion nationwide. But I don’t think she expected what Kamala revealed in her reply:
JACKSON: “What concessions would be on the table? Religious exemptions, for example? Is that something you would consider?
HARRIS: “I don’t think we should be making concessions when we’re talking about a fundamental freedom to make decisions about your own body.”
Anytime a progressive speaks on the topic of abortion, the doublespeak and euphemisms must be translated to understand the position. When Harris says “decisions about your body,” what she means is “decisions about destroying the body of the unborn baby growing in your womb.” Here’s the bottom line: When asked about abortion and whether those who disagree with abortion would be afforded a religious exemption to abstain from being complicit in abortion, she categorically answered “No.”
Don’t miss Kamala’s reasoning. She considers abortion a “fundamental freedom.” In other words, she thinks abortion is more “fundamental” than the first inalienable right enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life. And she thinks abortion is more “fundamental” than the first right enumerated in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the free exercise of religion.
Baptists Beware
Kamala’s remarks were met with swift and widespread denunciations from Catholics and Christians of all denominations. But for Baptists, her rejection of religious liberty in favor of expanding “abortion access” and her admitted willingness to shred the First Amendment and force those who understand abortion for what it is (murder) to participate in it should be particularly chilling.
Baptists have historically been champions of religious liberty, the rights of conscience, and the lives of the unborn. The Southern Baptist Convention’s statement of faith, the Baptist Faith & Message 2000 (BF&M), clearly articulates these three commitments.
In Article XV of the BF&M, “The Christian and the Social Order,” Baptists unapologetically affirm that “We should speak on behalf of the unborn and contend for the sanctity of all human life from conception to natural death.” In the very next line of Article XV, Baptists go even further and boldly proclaim that “Every Christian should seek to bring industry, government, and society as a whole under the sway of the principles of righteousness, truth, and brotherly love.”
Abortion is one of our nation’s most egregious (even satanic) inversions of the “principles of righteousness, truth, and brotherly love.” And how can Christians “bring industry, government, and society” under these Christian principles if they aren’t even allowed to build hospitals or work as doctors without being coerced by the government to participate, against their conscience, in abortions?
Finally, in Article XVII, “Religious Liberty,” Southern Baptists declare, “A free church in a free state is the Christian ideal.” First, it must be noted that a truly free state would never tolerate such a barbaric practice as abortion. As long as abortion is permitted, the most vulnerable among us, the unborn, are not truly free. Still, even though the blight of abortion is still present in the United States, the First Amendment guarantees that Christians are free to live according to the sacred principles of their religious commitments, not just inside their churches on Sunday morning but in the public square as well.
On all three of these historic Baptist commitments, 1) defending the unborn, 2) upholding religious liberty, and 3) seeking to “bring all of industry, government, and society under the sway of principles of righteousness,” Kamala doesn’t just fall short—she actively opposes them.
It’s impossible, then, to reconcile any Southern Baptist support for Kamala’s extreme support for abortion and opposition to religious liberty.
Conclusion
There are no two ways about it. Kamala Harris utterly fails to understand the American project. She is not only anti-Constitution and anti-American. She is anti-human. She has revealed her religion for all to see, and it isn’t in keeping with the spirit of the American founding.
She worships at the altar of Molech and wants to force you to do the same. Every person of goodwill and good faith should oppose such radical, deadly totalitarianism — for the sake of our neighbors, for the sake of the unborn, and for the sake of the dignity of this country. God help us.
