It’s funny when they just come out and say it.
For traditional Americans, the left’s vitriolic hatred of Christianity has been known for some time. Whether it’s taking prayer out of school or shaming public displays of faith, liberals try to vanquish Christian teaching from the public square.
This was apparent recently when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Christian baker who refused to design and bake a wedding cake for a gay marriage ceremony. Rather than allow a faithful baker to live out his faith in his profession, the left insisted that he hide his Christianity, only bringing it out in private moments. (RELATED: Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Religious Liberty Case).
Now we have yet another example of the anti-Christian bias so frequent on the left. Attorney General Jeff Sessions invoked the biblical passage of Romans 13 to justify his enforcement of federal law. In the verse, the apostle Paul urges Christian adherents to obey the law of whichever country they happen to be living in. The left, of course, wasn’t having it. (RELATED: WaPo Compares Sessions to ‘Slaveholders’ After He Quotes Bible Passage Related To Immigration Policy).
Andrea Mitchell, one of MSNBC’s top reporters, chastised Sessions, saying she didn’t think Christianity had a place in our public policy:
.@RuthMarcus: I think the notion of using biblical verses to justify this are morally wrong. Biblical verses don’t have a place in public policy. #AMR
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) June 15, 2018
Conservative writer Erick Erickson shot back at Michell for her remark, reminding her that plenty of American thinkers have invoked Scripture to help shape laws:
This is wrong. Every American President has quoted scripture. Martin Luther King used the moral authority of scripture to advance the civil rights movement. Everyone has a morality and that morality shapes people’s views and preferred policies. https://t.co/6c5cPSPNrh
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) June 15, 2018
Mitchell replied, saying that strict immigration laws violate the ethics of the New Testament:
Not misquoting Scripture to justify a policy diametrically opposed to the New Testament’s teachings cc: @JamesMartinSJ https://t.co/BHstSGnHVL
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) June 15, 2018
Just a reminder: Andrea Mitchell is greatly admired by Hillary Clinton, and if one wants to speculate, probably her favorite reporter.
Hillary Clinton to @mitchellreports: “I love you Andrea, you’re indefatigable. You’re my kind of woman.”
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) September 8, 2016
Mitchell couldn’t be more wrong, of course. The American system of government was designed by our founding fathers who were faithful. John Adams famously wrote, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Denying the role religious texts play in our government is to deny the very foundation of America itself, which was founded upon enlightenment principles mixed with a reverence towards “nature’s God.”
That doesn’t make America a theocracy, as so many liberals contend. Rather, it acknowledges the truth of our founding and the beneficial role religion can play in the public square.
Mitchell’s comment is insulting because it implies that someone of religious conviction can’t help craft public policy as an elected official. Would she say the same thing about a Muslim or Jewish lawmaker who cites the Quran or the Torah?
It’s doubtful. For Mitchell and her non-believing ilk, Christianity is easy to pick on.
