Vice President Kamala Harris called for more “faith in each other, in our nation, and in our future” while meeting with religious leaders about abortion, but she did not make any mention of God.
Harris was in Los Angeles, California, on Monday to meet with religious and faith leaders during a roundtable discussion, which she held to address “protecting reproductive rights [and] addressing the epidemic of hate that is gripping our nation.”
In her address, Harris said, “There’s so much more in common than what separates us.”
“We need faith in each other, in our nation, and in our future,” she told those in attendance. “And so, that’s why we are coming together today with a goal of instilling in folks a belief that gives them a sense of hope and optimism in themselves, in their community, and our future.”
Religious leaders in attendance reportedly included those from Christianity, Judaism, and Sikhism. Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA), Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis (D-CA), and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, a Democrat, also were in attendance.
Harris encouraged the leaders to avoid looking at support for abortion as “giving up core beliefs.”
“It is simply about agreeing that a woman should be able to make that decision with her faith leader, with her family, with her physician, and that the government should not be making that decision for her,” Harris said.
Other leaders not in attendance took to social media to react to her comments.
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America noted that the vice president also avoided saying the word “abortion.”
Andrew Brennan, the Republican National Committee’s director of faith communications, slammed the roundtable discussion as a display of how “out of touch” the Biden administration is concerning what matters to the public.
“Families can’t afford gas or groceries because of Joe Biden, and yet all this White House wants to talk about is their radical late-term abortion agenda — they couldn’t be more out of touch if they tried,” Brennan said in a statement.
The CEO and founder of Answers in Genesis also called for faith in God rather than people.
“What we all actually need is faith & trust in our Creator God & Savior, & to know and believe His Word. But then she would have to give up her support for sacrificing children in their mother’s wombs,” Answers in Genesis CEO Ken Ham tweeted.
First Baptist Dallas’s Dr. Robert Jeffress blasted the vice president’s comments.
“Biden Administration is spiritually bankrupt,” Jeffress tweeted.
The roundtable discussion comes more than a month since a draft of the majority opinion in Dobbs v. Women’s Health Organization was leaked, which seemed to indicate that the Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade and return the authority to pass laws regarding abortion to the states.
* Article from: The Washington Examiner
