Lie Down with Dogs……

There is a close race for Senator battling out in the Tarheel state between Democrat Kay Hagan and Republican Libby Dole. Dole released a commercial that has the Hagan camp outraged.

“I think Elizabeth Dole has just gone to the lowest of the lows,” Hagan said of the ad during an appearance on a talk show on WPTF-AM in Raleigh, North Carolina. “This is an attack on my Christian faith.”
Hagan, who described herself as a Sunday school teacher and an elder at a Presbyterian church in Greensboro, North Carolina, urged Dole to “pull this kind of despicable ad.”

The ad practically calls Hagan “Godless”. This is a very nasty charge in a solid bible-belt North Carolina.

I don’t think there should be a religious test for political office and I think politicians on both sides of the aisle historically beef up their religious bona fides before running for office. This is particularly true in the Deep South.

Being a Sunday School teacher and church elder, it is no surprise that Hagan was outraged. Unfortunately for Hagan, the Dole camp was more than ready to defend the ad.

Lawyers representing Dole and her campaign defended the ad Thursday as “100 percent factually accurate and truthful.” The campaign for the GOP incumbent said it based its claims on Hagan’s attendance at a fundraiser in the home of a GAPAC adviser.

“Kay Hagan attended a fundraiser event in Massachusetts in September held in the home of two anti-religion activists, Wendy Kaminer and her lawyer husband, Woody Kaplan,” Dole’s attorneys said in a letter to Hagan’s lawyer.

They described Kaplan as a founder and advisory board member of the GAPAC. The letter said Kaplan and Kaminer were advisory board members of The Secular Coalition for America, which it described as “the national lobby for atheists, humanists, freethinkers and other nontheistic Americans with the unique mission of protecting their civil rights.”
The lawyers also said Kaplan gave $2,300 to Hagan’s campaign.

Do I think Kay Hagan is an atheist? No, I think she is a secular politician who will do anything to get elected.

I don’t personally have any animosity against atheists or Presbyterians but I do think that they are mutually exclusive of each other.

Kay Hagan can not be an active Presbyterian and cavorting with atheists at the same time and should not be surprised if someone points out the obvious hypocrisy and lack or moral compass.

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