I took note of Inside Scoop’s questioning Kay Hagan’s religious beliefs in the wake of Elizabeth Dole’s most recent mailer linking Hagan with the Godless American PAC:
Scoop had occasion over the summer to ask Hagan about going to the fundraiser and whether people might think she’s a Santa-hating, church-slacking, no-goodnick.
Turns out no.
Hagan described herself as a “devout Christian” who is an elder at First Presbyterian Church and said she’s working with folks of all different religious stripes.
“I believe the people you’re talking about typically have Democratic fundraisers and (they asked) to support me from a standpoint and I agreed,” she said.
That’s that, I guess. But, no matter her personal religious beliefs, Hagan’s plan to “ensure that all Americans are treated with dignity and respect” strikes me as the typical “government as religion” belief held by modern liberals. I would venture to guess that while Godless Americans PAC doesn’t want government to interfere with their right not to believe, they certainly don’t mind government assuming other pseudo-religious roles in our lives, such as ensuring that we treat each other with dignity and respect.
Turns out I read more on the subject in Jonah Goldberg’s deeply silly book Liberal Fascism. Goldberg writes about Hillary Clinton:
Hers is a Third Way approach that promises to be neither left nor right, but a synthesis of both, under which state and big business will work hand in hand. It is a fundamentally religious vision hiding in a Trojan horse of social justice that seeks to imbue social policy with spiritual imperatives.
That sounds like where Hagan’s campaign is heading, probably with a little help from her new friends.
Update: Technically it was the N.C Republican Party that sent out the mailer.
