Kamala Harris on matters of life, religion
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At the mid-week point of the Democratic National Convention reporters said Americans probably know little about Kamala Harris, but would learn a lot more in her much anticipated speech that evening. Both points are true, to some extent. However, pro-life and religious freedom advocates already knew plenty from her words and actions before presidential candidate Joe Biden announced her as his running mate. And a political campaign speech will deliver typically scripted messages about standing up for the little guy and fighting for basic human rights and defending freedoms, all especially for the marginalized and those who have suffered from discrimination against them because of their identity.
The ironies and inconsistencies in all this should be noted. As California Attorney General, Harris prosecuted citizen journalist David Daleiden for his investigative video revelations of Planned Parenthood’s involvement in marketing aborted baby body parts. His legal firm, Thomas More Society, asked a Superior Court judge “to dismiss the ten criminal counts levied against Daleiden by Xavier Becerra, California’s current attorney general, who took over the prosecution of Daleiden that was initiated by his predecessor, Kamala Harris. The political careers of both Becerra and Harris have been supported and financed by Planned Parenthood.”
Daleiden has now sued both.
Her words and actions in the Senate, especially on the Judiciary Committee, reveal anti-Catholic bias when considering nominees to the federal judiciary with (in one case) “questions about the suitability of a candidate based on his membership of the Knights of Columbus”, which she described as “an all-male society” that “opposed a woman’s right to choose”, among other things Harris has said about nominees to higher judicial appointments (like Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court).
Since then, the Senate “voted unanimously to reaffirm the constitutional clause forbidding religious tests for public officeholders,” as Alexandra DeSanctis noted in this National Review piece. “But the fact remains that Harris was guilty of reprehensible anti-Catholic bigotry, and there’s no reason to believe her views have changed.”
They have changed – or have been expressed differently – on other issues, as Judicial Crisis Network points out. Experts at JCN are watching and listening carefully, as all voters should, regarding all candidates.
