What role do you think people of faith should play in politics and government?God may choose our rulers (although where he was in 2000 is an open question), but if he truly is a kind and benevolent supreme being, he'll move Heaven and earth to keep this lunatic out of office. She's blown off the Jewish vote -- or anyone else who isn't a "Christian" under her definition. She's trashed any chance of getting the gay vote, and there are a substantial number of queers in this state...and some of them consider themselves to be Republicans (although I have no idea why -- it's like Jews for Hitler -- but hey, live and let live, I always say.) She's completely demolished any chance of getting the vote of people who have any hopes of curing diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, or diabetes; illnesses that strike a large number of the elderly, of which there are a substantial number of here in Florida. It would be interesting to see if she would sign the stem-cell pledge. But she's not really worried, apparently, because when she shuffles off this mortal coil she's going to be seated at the right hand of God:
The Bible says we are to be salt and light. And salt and light means not just in the church and not just as a teacher or as a pastor or a banker or a lawyer, but in government and we have to have elected officials in government and we have to have the faithful in government and over time, that lie we have been told, the separation of church and state, people have internalized, thinking that they needed to avoid politics and that is so wrong because God is the one who chooses our rulers.
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Do you support civil rights protections on the basis of sexual preference?
Civil rights have to do with individual rights and I don’t think they apply to the gay issues. I have not supported gay marriage and I do not support any civil rights actions with regard to homosexuality.
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What is your view on state funding of embryonic stem cell research?
I am adamantly opposed to embryonic stem cell research and voted as such. I’m the only candidate in the primary or general who’s voted against embryonic stem cell research and has voted for cord blood research and adult stem cell research. We’ve had enormous successes with nasal cells, other things in terms of adult stem cell research as well as cord blood. There are no successes for embryonic. That is why the private sector is not involved and there is no justification for taking a live embryo and destroying it.
Why should Florida Baptists care about this primary election?
They should care about this election period. I will tell you that everywhere I go throughout the state and even the nation, people say the pollsters, the politicians and spiritually—that Florida is the forerunner state. That what happens in Florida sets the trend for what happens nationally. And with this election, if Bill Nelson wins, it’s going to be a very frightening proposition in 2008 in the presidential elections because whoever wins Florida will win the presidency. And he’ll be in a position to largely influence. No other candidate can beat Bill Nelson except for me. No one even has a chance because of name identification and fund raising abilities and things like that. But the real issue is why should Baptists care, why should people care? If you are not electing Christians, tried and true, under public scrutiny and pressure, if you’re not electing Christians then in essence you are going to legislate sin. They can legislate sin. They can say that abortion is alright. They can vote to sustain gay marriage. And that will take western civilization, indeed other nations because people look to our country as one nation as under God and whenever we legislate sin and we say abortion is permissible and we say gay unions are permissible, then average citizens who are not Christians, because they don’t know better, we are leading them astray and it’s wrong. ... [Emphasis added.]
Some day all of us have to give an account before God for what we have done. Are you certain in your own heart that when you come to that point of accounting that you’ll spend eternity with God in Heaven?Typical Republican: letting someone else take the rap for her sins.
No question.
One day when you stand before God, if He says to you, “Why should I let you into my Heaven?” What you would say in response?
That’s an interesting question. Because I loved Your Son and because I know He died for my sins. I know He was resurrected at Your right hand and I served Him. You know we’re covered with, our sins are covered with His blood and so we are blameless before Him. We are as white as snow.
Well, it's good to know that she thinks she's going to be in Heaven because she sure as Hell isn't going to be in the United States Senate.
