Republican congressional candidate Mark Harris, a former Baptist pastor, once delivered a sermon questioning whether a career was the "healthiest pursuit" for women.
The 2013 sermon was discovered by a Democratic-linked Super PAC, American Bridge, and first reported Thursday by ABC News.
In the sermon, Harris, then pastor of Charlotte's First Baptist Church, spoke about "God's plan for biblical womanhood" and barriers to it.
"The first one . . . is that we’ve had in our own culture a new supreme pursuit," he said. "There is a new supreme pursuit from the traditional pursuit of being a wife or a mother . . . . [snip]
Harris is running in the 9th District, which stretches from Charlotte to Bladen County. He defeated incumbent Robert Pittenger in May's Republican primary and now faces Democrat Dan McCready.Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt has the right idea:
So the choice in this one is pretty clear. A USMC Captain, combat veteran, a man of genuine faith and job creating businessman vs. a theocratic looney tunes. McCready is clearly the better choice. His opponent is nuts. Helping @McCreadyForNC is good for America. Thanks Fred https://t.co/NnS2Ne96Mu— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) July 7, 2018
This is an open seat, since the Biblical jackass defeated the somewhat less looney incumbent in the Republican primary. You can check out McCready's web site at the link in Schmidt's tweet.
