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TexasTowelie

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Fri Jul 6, 2018, 02:52 AM Jul 2018

NC congressional candidate suggested woman's career can interfere with biblical role

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 . . .

Read more: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article214403394.html

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NC congressional candidate suggested woman's career can interfere with biblical role (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2018 OP
can you say sharia? pansypoo53219 Jul 2018 #1
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