Oh boy. After months and months of insisting that she really doesn’t oppose Social Security — despite her past statements about wanting to phase it out — now a tape has surfaced of Nevada Republican Senate nominee Sharron Angle decrying the program as an example of society’s “wicked ways.” And this was just two and a half weeks ago.
As Politico reports, an audio recording was uploaded to the Democratic National Committee’s Accountability Project site, of Angle speaking at a church on October 10. During her speech, Angle offered a confession for America’s sins — going beyond just the standard religious conservative issues of abortion, but also the legislation of divorce, and various social welfare programs.
“And yet we’re saying, ‘Well, the government, we have all these programs now. Aid for Families with Dependent Children and Medicare and Social Security,’” said Angle. “That’s fine, but isn’t it we that should be thinking about this, isn’t it us that should be caring in our community for those that the Lord has called us to? Didn’t he say you honor him, you love him if you’ve cared for these the least among you? So we do have a lot of wicked ways that we can confess as a church, and I think that’s what he’s calling us to now.”
Angle spokesman Jarrod Agen responded to the tape, Politico reports:
“There’s nothing in that [statement] calling entitlement programs ‘wicked,’” Agen said. Rather, the remarks convey “that the programs are fine, but we should be caring for our community,” Agen said. “Go to any church in America and you’ll hear a sentiment like that.”
Agen dismissed the tape as an attempt by Democrats to change the subject. “Any leaked ‘secret recordings’ at this point in the campaign are highly suspect and very desperate,” he said.
I confess that we are a nation who has killed our children. I confess that we are a nation who has walked away from the family and allowed divorce, even among our ranks. We have walked away from the biblical definition of marriage: one man, one woman, the two become one flesh.
We as a nation have been walking away from our constitutional freedom and relying on government instead to take care of the widow and the orphan. Isn’t that what he says, true religion and undefiled before God is that you care for the widow and the orphan? Isn’t that the poor and needy among us? And yet we’re saying, ‘Well, the government, we have all these programs now. Aid for Families with Dependent Children and Medicare and Social Security.’ That’s fine, but isn’t it we that should be thinking about this, isn’t it us that should be caring in our community for those that the Lord has called us to? Didn’t he say you honor him, you love him if you’ve cared for these the least among you? So we do have a lot of wicked ways that we can confess as a church, and I think that’s what he’s calling us to now.
The TPM Poll Average gives Angle a lead of 49.3%-46.9%.
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