10/31/2022
"We've got to have separation of church and state. That's a bunch of hogwash."
We don't get to pick and choose which parts of the Constitution we adhere to, Mark Pless.
My opponent believes that the government should be able to give money to churches and points the finger of blame for the Establishment Clause at our forefathers.
This campaign, for me, is about the soul of North Carolina. It's about who we are as a State- whether we're a state that has laws, whether we follow those laws, and if a representative decided that not following those laws is to their advantage, what does that say about our state if we're okay with that?
"Now poverty we can do something about," Pless said during our panel discussion at Mars Hill University. One of the things that I'm working on is trying to figure out how we can get nonprofits money to buy food boxes. Ok. We're heading into a pretty rough time. Some people are not gonna have any money to eat. We know that. The government should help these nonprofits, and that's what we're working towards. The problem is, and this comes back to something as timeless as it gets- separation of church and state. We have thrown something in there to keep from having a statement of religion like it was in England to where now we let that inhibit our ability to hand it, and I'm just going to throw a name out there to the First Baptist Church in Mars Hill. The government can't give First Baptist Church of Mars Hill $100,000 to feed people because now we've got to have separation of church and state. That's a bunch of hogwash."
I didn't fight and bleed for my country and our Constitution and my battle buddies didn't pay the ultimate price in service of the same to have an elected official cherry-pick passages of our sacred document to suit his agenda.
