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AP Exclusive: No gay adoptions, says GOP’s Angle

By Associated Press
Friday, August 6, 2010 4:29 EST
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AP Exclusive: Nevada’s Angle outlines views on gays, school prayer in questionnaire.

Republican Sharron Angle believes the clergy should be allowed to endorse candidates from the pulpit and opposes laws allowing gays to adopt children, according to a questionnaire by the Nevada Senate hopeful that was obtained by The Associated Press.

Angle, who is trying to unseat Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, completed the four-page questionnaire for a conservative political action committee that has endorsed her candidacy.

The document provides a window into Angle’s social and moral views, which would place her among Congress’ most conservative members at a time of ongoing culture wars over gay rights, abortion and the boundaries between religion and government.

Among her positions, outlined in answers to 36 yes-or-no questions, Angle would oppose making sexual orientation a protected minority in civil rights laws. In a section on school prayer, she affirms that students and teachers should be able to talk openly about religion in schools, including the right to “publicly acknowledge the Creator.”

The federal government bans churches from participating in political campaigns on behalf of candidates, but Angle said clergy should be able to express views on candidates from the pulpit.

Angle, a Southern Baptist, has talked openly about her faith and how it informs her politics. She describes her campaign as a spiritual calling, and accused Reid and Democrats in Washington of trying to “make government our God” by expanding entitlement programs.

Reid’s campaign has called those comments “radical” and “frightening.”

In the questionnaire, submitted to the Washington-based Government is not God political committee, Angle said she would vote in Congress to prohibit abortion “in all cases,” and considers a fetus a person under the Constitution.

The Washington-based group’s website says it supports candidates who oppose abortion rights and “stand firmly against the unbiblical welfare state that is destroying the spiritual and economic greatness of our nation.”

Other Republican Senate candidates endorsed by the committee include California’s Carly Fiorina, Marco Rubio in Florida, J.D. Hayworth in Arizona and Jane Norton of Colorado, according to its website.

Angle favors laws to restrict the production and sale of pornography, and believes that federal involvement in public schools should end. Also, she would oppose federal efforts to regulate private schools.

Angle’s campaign has attracted support from conservative groups, including the Tea Party Express and the low-tax Club for Growth. She has been blaming Reid for Nevada’s dismal economic condition – it leads the nation in joblessness and foreclosures – while Reid has sought to depict her as an extremist who would dismantle Social Security and Medicare.

Angle’s views on church-state separation have been an issue in the race.

In a June interview on Nevada’s KVBC’s news interview program “Face to Face with Jon Ralston,” Angle was asked about minutes from a 1995 legislative hearing in which she reportedly said the doctrine of church-state separation is unconstitutional. Asked on the program if the separation of church and state arises out of the Constitution, Angle answered “no.” She said Thomas Jefferson is often misquoted and that he wanted to protect churches from being taken over by a state religion. The drafters of the Constitution “didn’t mean that we couldn’t bring our values to the political forum,” she said.

Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a Washington-based advocacy group, said allowing clergy to make endorsements from the pulpit would turn houses of worship into “electoral machinery.”

“When candidates are trying to get the endorsement of religious leaders, it tends to corrupt the political process and the integrity of the church,” Lynn said. “I don’t think churches should be cogs in a political machine, but that’s what happens when you have to decide yes or no to a candidate’s particular election.”

Angle spokesman Jarrod Agen said the nation has a long history of clergy speaking out on matters of conscience and Angle “believes it is improper for the federal government to use the threat of revoking tax exempt status against churches and pastors.”

Under the federal tax code, churches and other religious organizations could lose tax-exempt status if leaders make partisan comments about candidates at functions or in publications.

On adoptions, Angle believes children should have a relationship with a mother and a father, and she believes education should be managed at the local level “not by bureaucrats in Washington,” Agen added.

In a statement Thursday, Reid spokesman Kelly Steele said the senator “is a man of faith and respects the faith of others, but he also believes it is a personal matter.”

“Sharron Angle, however, has clearly stated that there is no separation between church and state, even though it is spelled out in the Constitution,” Steele said.

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  • indi_progressive

    Well, fanatical radical evangelical right wing nut jobs, let me get this straight:

    We cant use birth control

    We cant get an abortion (even if raped or the mothers life is in danger)

    Any sex that doesnt make babies is sinful

    Yet when the baby is born it should get no healthcare, no food, single mothers should get no help, single people shouldnt be able to adopt babies or gay people because its much better for these unwanted children to go from foster home to foster home and rot in an orphanage somewhere with no one?

    These people are just plain evil to force women to have babies and then throw the babies and the mothers to the wolves! What would you have us do, throw the unwanted babies or babies that parents simply cant afford in a ditch and cover them up with bulldozers?

  • gr0o

    Oh geezuz. She's as bad as Bachmann and Palin.
    If conservatives are such sticklers for the Constitution then how come they:
    *Want medical privacy for everyone except for women of child-bearing age
    *Refuse equality to tax-paying, consenting adults
    *Plan on reversing the 14th Amendment
    *Confer rights and privileges on large corporations that supersede the rights of individuals and property owners.
    *Refuse to acknowledge the separation of church and state.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=526903019 Timothy Clark

    Can I use this on my facebook?

  • http://twitter.com/OMGWhatDidWeDo Trevinla

    Since Ms Angle is so religious I pose hhis question:
    Luke 4:8 says you shall only serve the lord, so by being a public servant are you breaking your vows to the people or the lord?

  • indi_progressive

    Jesus also said to pray in a closet, he said his dad knows what the deal is with the people yelling in the street.

  • indi_progressive

    Please…

  • http://twitter.com/OMGWhatDidWeDo Trevinla

    all of Mattew 6 speaks of the hypocrisy of public worship and presenting your righteousness among men

  • moldy

    Jesus Christ!

  • doggiedaddy

    I understand we have to keep people of this ilk aware that they are being watched and
    monitored for their behavior, just as they wish to monitor everyone else, but it's time to
    fully 'out' this piece of garbage for what it is. But why give this…women, more free press or air time than she's already had or deserves?

    This has gone beyond farce and folly into macabre and ludicrous.

    She is no longer street theater.
    She has morphed into her true self.
    A hatred filled gas bag of shallow, evil talking points that even her own party, repulsive in their own
    right, disavows.

  • TJoad

    In Nevada language: I'll call your Gay adoption bluff and raise you a religious nut job ban on adoption. And isn't it time we dropped tax payer funding for all faith based groups and got back to proving real government services?

  • jamminjohn

    Yo, Sharron, how do you feel about things like, oh, say, Leviticus and Exodus, where you can kill anyone working on the Sabbath, and keep slaves, as long as they're from a neighboring country? Or people that run barber shops? You do know the bible basically forbids anyone from getting their hair cut, don't you? Oh ya, don't be eating no bacon with them eggs: unclean pork, you know.

    Bible spouting morons have no idea what they're attempting to do, and Sharron Angle is at the pinnacle of the religious rights bastardization of Christianity.

  • billfromny

    This woman has issues.

  • WJM51

    Does this woman even know the basics of fourth grade civics? She is proof that the American education system only works if the mind is open enough to LEARN something. My God, what a loon!

    Good luck, Nevada. You have a real choice, here. A guy I don't personally think has the balls to get the job done, or a woman who wants to take you back to the 14th century. You guys haven't left yourselves with much of a choice at all.

    But hey, if you want someone in office who thinks that rather than have universal health care, we should all just “rely on God” for our operations and medical care, if you want someone who thinks that we need to just leave ourselves to the mercies of big business, if you want someone who thinks that we should go back to dog eat dog as our general approach to life, if you want someone who just can't stand COOPERATION among the people, then you know who to vote for. If you want to divide and destroy this nation to where we NEVER get back up on our feet, then Angle is your candidate.

    This country is in the process of splintering itself apart, and THIS is the best the right can come up with? They couldn't even FIND a right winger who knows the first thing about how our system is SUPPOSED to work, you have to find someone who is completely CLUELESS about it? We are coming apart at the seams, and the best you can find is a fool who wants to throw gas on the fire destroying us?

    My God, you people are not only insane, but you are nationally suicidal as well. If you can't run it into the ground on your own, you will make sure it's impossible for anyone to stop the slide into the pit. What the hell is it that you idiots are trying to CONSERVE? Isn't that what CONSERVATIVES are supposed to be for, CONSERVING THINGS? You conserve NOTHING. All you do is destroy everything that already exists. NOTHING conservative about that. God, you people are MORONS. Enjoy your candidate. The rest of us are laughing our faces off at you.

  • mindboggeling

    Just because a child has two heterosexuals parents is not a guarantee they will be good parents. Angle seems to have a very narrow simplistic view of the world. Not one based in reality. Good parents come in all varieties just like bad ones do. Most of angle's opinions are so cruel it is hard to imagine anyone can like her let alone would vote for her. I can't get past her views on rape victims. Just one of the many problems I have with this idiot. She thinks Reid is responsible for the economical problems in the country? Where was she during the bush years? It appears she just started thinking when a black man became President. She calls Reids campaign radical and Frightening? Oh Lady, I am so glad you weren't my mother. Because you truly are RADICAL AND FRIGHTENING!

  • xgremlin

    Establishment bohemith who steam rolls Americana < Average woman who has lived in the real world up till just recently

    Give me the broad.

  • winski

    Rest of humanity to Ms. Angle – YOU'RE NOT WELCOME HERE….

  • Tyroanee

    Okay Sharon it's time to share the good sh*t with the rest of the world… what are on?

  • rustyhoundog

    I agree, religions should be free to endorse political ideas and people, but only under the condition they are treated like everyone by the IRS; no more tax exemptions whatever.

    If they start paying their taxes they can be treated the same as any other corporation.

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  • JOR6221

    winski: news for you – certainly there are a large number of folks that would agree with you and there a large number of folks that don't appreciate you speaking up as if you represent the “rest of humanity”.

    practice tolerance.

  • JOR6221

    you're close but not quite there. You progressives are interesting. You are so confident that you are correct in your beliefs that you are blind. Practice tolerance and open-mindedness like conservatives!

    Sex is pleasureful, enjoy it. man/woman for life. you can use biology to enjoy it without conceiving a child. Just don't use man-made conception.

    conservatives want everyone taken care of too, our disagreement is not in a lack of compassion – it is in what is the best approach to get it done.

    we know that government should have a limited role in that. business creates wealth and must be nurtured. too much government kills the goose that lays the golden egg – capitalism. Keep it limited and efficient,

    Right now the goose that lays the golden eggs is being strangled. Very scary…our way of life, our freedoms – for everyone are at risk..

    A note about abortion: How do you justify the babies killed who would have turned out to be gay or progressives? The person conceived by rape might be our next great progressive president like Pres. Obama! Who are you to decide who lives/dies?

    The issue is the rights/freedoms that are so dear to you progressives and to us conservatives.

    Try this:
    1) baby just born – have rights?
    2) 10 minutes earlier located 12 inches away in the womb, have rights?
    3) 1 month earlier – can survive with a little bit of help, same as baby just born, have rights?
    4) 2 months earlier, can survive with a little bit of help (perhaps a bit more), same as baby just born, have rights?

    Some day Republicans might be the ones heralded as protectors of the downtrodden like during the Civil War when we were the abolitionists.

    Now look at your own mother or father..

    1)80 years old, needs help bathing, has right to live?
    2)85, needs diapers, and a walker, has right to live?
    3)90, losing memory, bedridden most of time, has right to live?

    You get the idea… we are becoming a society where you must be between 2 and 50, good-looking and athletic, or you can be elliminated… A society is only good if it takes care of its most vulnerable. They must be a deep regard for human life.

  • http://www.dumboDuewall6384.com Brady Yanchik

    You have been told that you should determine this about every.