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Kamala's Record is Full of Attacks on Life and First Amendment Rights 
Yesterday presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden announced that he had chosen Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, making for the “most pro-abortion ticket in history.” Senator Harris takes her support for abortion to appalling extremes. Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser pointed out that Harris supports taxpayer-funded abortions on demand up until birth, and has even opposed legislation that would ensure lifesaving care for abortion survivors.
Harris also allowed her support for abortion giant Planned Parenthood to interfere with her work as California Attorney General prior to her election to the U.S. Senate in 2016. While she was serving as California Attorney General, Harris ordered a raid on a citizen journalist David Daleiden’s home after he exposed Planned Parenthood’s role in the trafficking of body parts from aborted babies. The handling of Daleiden’s case has raised significant concerns regarding freedom of speech and the future of undercover journalism. In May, the Center for Medical Progress filed a lawsuit against Harris and others for “brazen, unprecedented, and ongoing conspiracy,” pointing out that Harris secretly met with Planned Parenthood executives to discuss the investigation shortly before the raid.
Senator Harris’s attacks on religion are just as troubling as her attacks on free speech and due process. Last year she introduced legislation that would have gutted the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Like her running mate, Harris wants to require the Little Sisters of the Poor to pay for contraceptive and abortion coverage, and when the Supreme Court was deciding Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, Harris filed a brief against Hobby Lobby arguing that employers should be required to provide contraceptive coverage, even if it violated their religious beliefs. Harris has also suggested that a Catholic judge’s religious beliefs should disqualify him from serving on the bench.
The Biden campaign would have been hard pressed to find a vice presidential candidate who has displayed more hostility to religious freedom, free speech, and life in the womb than Senator Kamala Harris.
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Freedom from the Politics of Fear
Christians are often accused of engaging in politics because we love power and we want to control people. While these accusations are spurious, it is important that we ask ourselves why we engage in politics and what we communicate to the world around us. Our cultural engagement reflects what we believe about God. Because God is sovereign over all, we can be free from the politics of fear. So, as we engage, we should ask ourselves if our words and our actions reflect this. Do we engage in such a way that people know us by our love? Does the world around us know that we love and celebrate God’s design? Do we approach victories as well as defeats with the confidence that, whatever happens, God is in control, or do we allow ourselves to be consumed by fear and bitterness?
If we place our ultimate hope in anything that is not God, we ask that thing to be something that it is not, distorting its purpose and keeping it from what it was designed to be. As a result, something that was created to be good becomes something harmful. Political engagement is a good thing, but all good things must be used rightly in order to remain good. If we find that our politics are marked by resentment, fear, and love of power, we should carefully examine our hearts and ask ourselves if we have allowed ourselves to bow to an idol by placing our hope in the political process, instead of God.
Worldly approaches to political engagement look to policies and politicians to save us and redeem the culture. This misplaced hope leads to political engagement fueled by the fear and resentment that comes from putting our faith in people, human institutions, and worldly methods instead of in God. As Christians, we must do politics differently - politics "worthy of the gospel of Christ." (Philippians 1:27) Because God is sovereign and no politician can “hurt” him, we are able to engage with hopefulness and love, rather than fear and resentment. Instead of putting our faith in politics, we are able to see politics as a tool in the hand of God and a means that we use to seek the good of the people around us.
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