During a recent campaign stop in North Carolina, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) sparked controversy by calling Vice President Kamala Harris “the biggest threat to religious liberty we’ve had in at least a generation.” His remarks, made at a "Believers and Ballots" event in Charlotte, further emphasized his view that the Biden-Harris administration is a key opponent of individual freedoms, particularly in regard to freedom of speech and religious expression.

 

Vance passionately addressed the audience, laying out his case against the vice president. “Now let’s just run through a number of ways in which the Kamala Harris administration has been a chief opponent of freedom of conscience, of free speech, and of religious liberty in this country,” he began. He went on to specifically cite the administration's handling of COVID-19 vaccine mandates, criticizing the measures as an infringement on personal freedoms.

 

“Number one, Kamala Harris — despite the fact that she says that she stands for working people, despite the fact that you know her running mate has this slogan, we believe in America that people ought to mind their own damn business — both of them pursued policies that would have people fired for refusing to take the COVID vaccine shot,” Vance argued.

 

The vaccine mandates introduced during the pandemic were a central point of contention in Vance’s criticism. The Biden administration had implemented a requirement for federal workers to get vaccinated, aiming to reduce the death toll from the virus. Furthermore, the administration sought to impose a "vaccine-or-test" mandate for private employers with more than 100 employees. However, the Supreme Court later blocked the broader employer mandate, while maintaining vaccine requirements for certain healthcare facilities.

 

Governors at the state level also instituted similar policies during the pandemic. For instance, Gov. Tim Walz (D) of Minnesota required state workers to either get vaccinated or undergo regular testing from 2021 to 2022. These mandates, though designed to protect public health, drew sharp criticism from many Republicans, including Vance, who viewed them as government overreach.

 

Vance’s comments came on the heels of a controversial statement from former President Donald Trump, who, while discussing Harris, suggested that “Jewish people would have a lot to do” with his potential defeat in the upcoming election if Harris were to win. This inflammatory rhetoric added to the charged political environment surrounding Harris and her potential 2024 candidacy.

 

North Carolina, where Vance was campaigning, is considered a crucial battleground for Republicans as they aim to return Trump to the White House. However, GOP prospects in the state are complicated by other political figures, including North Carolina’s GOP gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson. Robinson, who has faced scrutiny for past controversial remarks, including referring to himself as a “Black Nazi” on a pornography website forum, has drawn attention that could potentially detract from the GOP’s efforts in the state.

 

Despite these challenges, Republicans are still vying to secure North Carolina's electoral votes, with Decision Desk HQ's aggregate polling showing a tight race between Trump and Harris. The latest numbers indicate Trump holding a narrow lead, with 48.4 percent to Harris’s 47.8 percent, underscoring the state’s importance in the upcoming election.

 

Vance’s remarks highlight the deep divisions between Republicans and Democrats over issues like religious liberty, personal freedoms, and pandemic policies. As the 2024 election draws closer, these issues are likely to remain at the forefront of political debates, particularly in swing states like North Carolina.

 

Based on a report from: The Hill 2024-09-25

 

 

 

Are these religious bigots and racist doofuses projecting again?as far as the Biden administration insisting people who work amongst others be vaxed absolutely 👍 you are free to be unemployed just not free to endanger others…….

Never mind Harris being a threat to religious liberty. She would be a threat to the wellbeing of  Americans if elected. 

The vaccine mandate was insane. All the people that were forced the jab to keep their job will undoubtedly be voting for trump

15 minutes ago, mdr224 said:

The vaccine mandate was insane. All the people that were forced the jab to keep their job will undoubtedly be voting for trump

So the freedom to spread pestilence supersedes the common good to protect public health?

While in Vance's state of Ohio:

"The state of Ohio is giving taxpayer money to private, religious schools to help them build new buildings and expand their campuses, which is nearly unprecedented in modern U.S. history.

While many states have recently enacted sweeping school voucher programs that give parents taxpayer money to spend on private school tuition for their kids, Ohio has cut out the middleman. Under a bill passed by its Legislature this summer, the state is now providing millions of dollars in grants directly to religious schools, most of them Catholic, to renovate buildings, build classrooms, improve playgrounds and more."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ohio-funding-construction-private-religious-150100613.html

Here’s what an idiot Vance is.

 

Trump and Vance already have the Christo-Fascist vote.

 

Christians who understand why the Church and the State are separate aren’t going to come on board for this ‘scaremongering’ and the rest of the electorate aren’t listening to him.

 

He’s speaking to voters already on board and driving everyone else away.

 

I’m looking forward to the ‘VP Debate’.

1 hour ago, Tug said:

So the freedom to spread pestilence supersedes the common good to protect public health?

Are you claiming that COVID vaccines work?

2 hours ago, mdr224 said:

The vaccine mandate was insane. All the people that were forced the jab to keep their job will undoubtedly be voting for trump

They should be thankful they are alive to vote.

3 hours ago, stoner said:

 

did he really say that ? or is this just a trolling meme. which are becoming quite popular on here.

The Democrats hold up gayness and perversion and trannies as the highest form of life and philosophy, yet use such concepts as insulting cudgels.

 

The hypocrisy is so blatant as to be a caricature. Its like Nero getting up after being deflowered by his freedman and then calling him a filthy fag. Or the anti gay Congressman tapping his foot in the stall.

2 hours ago, Tug said:

So the freedom to spread pestilence supersedes the common good to protect public health?

NEWS FLASH ... the experimental drugs did nothing to prevent getting or spreading any pestilence.

Well said Mr Vance. The left hate individual freedoms.

 

That's why they try to censor/control speech so much. They think if you can't say it, you can't think it.

 

They'll learn differently in November.  

Frothing much?

 

9 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Are you claiming that COVID vaccines work?

Republicans' excess death rate spiked after COVID-19 vaccines arrived, a study says

The pandemic inflicted higher rates of excess deaths on both Republicans and Democrats. But after COVID-19 vaccines arrived, Republican voters in Florida and Ohio died at a higher rate than their counterparts, according to a new study.

Researchers from Yale University who studied the pandemic's effects on those two states say that from the pandemic's start in March 2020 through December 2021, "excess mortality was significantly higher for Republican voters than Democratic voters after COVID-19 vaccines were available to all adults, but not before."

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/25/1189939229/covid-deaths-democrats-republicans-gap-study

8 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

Well said Mr Vance. The left hate individual freedoms.

 

That's why they try to censor/control speech so much. They think if you can't say it, you can't think it.

 

They'll learn differently in November.  

Yet more grossly ill-informed nonsense.

 

The rightwing accusation confession thing is thick in the air today.

 

The Republicans are busy stripping women of dominion over their own bodies and handing it to State Governments and banning books.

 

 

13 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

NEWS FLASH ... the experimental drugs did nothing to prevent getting or spreading any pestilence.

Got any credible science based links to back that claim up?

20 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

NEWS FLASH ... the experimental drugs did nothing to prevent getting or spreading any pestilence.

NEWS FLASH - unvaccinated people who caught COVID were 6-7 times more likely to require ICU admission than someone who was vaccinated.

 

When they did occupy a ICU bed, they were making less beds available for non-COVID patients.

 

They don't want to be vaccinated. They don't want to wear masks. Yet they clamor for an ICU when they get really sick.

 

IMO all anti-vaxxers should be refused ICU admission if they contract COVID. Let them work it out for themselves, with BS remedies like bleach, hydroquinone, and ivermectin.

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1 minute ago, Lacessit said:

NEWS FLASH - unvaccinated people who caught COVID were 6-7 times likely to require ICU admission than someone who was vaccinated.

 

When they did occupy a ICU bed, they were making less beds available for non-COVID patients.

 

They don't want to be vaccinated. They don't want to wear masks. Yet they clamor for an ICU when they get really sick.

 

IMO all anti-vaxxers should be refused ICU admission if they contract COVID. Let them work it out for themselves, with BS remedies like bleach, hydroquinone, and ivermectin.

I think we’ve already established there is no cure for the anti-Vaxers.

 

Just ask for credible science based links to back their claims, they never have any.

3 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I think we’ve already established there is no cure for the anti-Vaxers.

 

Just ask for credible science based links to back their claims, they never have any.

Tell us about the science that says men can become women on a whim? And vice versa?

3 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Tell us about the science that says men can become women on a whim? And vice versa?

Oh, the whataboutary response.

2 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Oh, the whataboutary response.

Dont mean to go off script, sorry, carry on.  Anti Vaxers are a menace to public health, lock them up till they get the shots, right?

2 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Dont mean to go off script, sorry, carry on.  Anti Vaxers are a menace to public health, lock them up till they get the shots, right?

Moving from whataboutary to pure fiction isn’t an improvement.

4 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Moving from whataboutary to pure fiction isn’t an improvement.

Got it. Carry on with your forum hate spewing against folks you dont like. Makes it easier to convince folks to engage in Aktions in the future.

Just now, Yagoda said:

Got it. Carry on with your forum hate spewing against folks you dont like. Makes it easier to convince folks to engage in Aktions in the future.

Hate?

 

 

50 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

NEWS FLASH ... the experimental drugs did nothing to prevent getting or spreading any pestilence.

Even if your claim is true, what does that have to do with the disproportionate number of deaths among those who didn't get vaccinated?

7 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Even if your claim is true, what does that have to do with the disproportionate number of deaths among those who didn't get vaccinated?

Disproportionately Trump supporters, which in itself begs a number of questions all starting with ‘wtf’.

5 hours ago, Social Media said:

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) sparked controversy by calling Vice President Kamala Harris “the biggest threat to religious liberty we’ve had in at least a generation.”

But Catholic Vance is okay with Trump.

"Trump tweets quote calling him the "second coming of God" to Jews in Israel," August 2019  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/

• 'Mr. Trump shared the message that he is "the greatest President for Jews and for Israel in the history of the world," that "the Jewish people in Israel love him like he's the King of Israel" and even that "They love him like he is the second coming of God." 

Exodus 22:20 reads "Whoever sacrifices to any god other than the Lord must be destroyed."

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4 hours ago, Tug said:

Are these religious bigots and racist doofuses projecting again?as far as the Biden administration insisting people who work amongst others be vaxed absolutely 👍 you are free to be unemployed just not free to endanger others…….

Vaxed or mandatory testing to protect others, I could not agree more. We have concrete evidence of the result of the Trump/Vance approach to Covid ... I remember the refrigerated trucks overflowing with too many corpses' to bury,

Was Robinson present at the campaign event?

3 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Here’s what an idiot Vance is.

 

Trump and Vance already have the Christo-Fascist vote.

 

Christians who understand why the Church and the State are separate aren’t going to come on board for this ‘scaremongering’ and the rest of the electorate aren’t listening to him.

 

He’s speaking to voters already on board and driving everyone else away.

 

 

You mean like Kamala is talking to women about abortion, even though she already has women voters who want abortion voting for her?

 

Lol.

2 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Well said Mr Vance. The left hate individual freedoms.

 

That's why they try to censor/control speech so much. They think if you can't say it, you can't think it.

 

They'll learn differently in November.  

 

Very true.

 

If there were another pandemic Kamala Harris would make everyone wear masks and lock them up at home like they did the last time. Out of fear. 

 

The left has no courage for liberty. Cowards to a man, though few men among them.