Opinion by Jennifer Rubin: Eric Adams wades into church-state quicksand
shocked many in the audience when he suggested guns came into schools when “we took prayers out of schools.” It got dicier from there. Adams declared:Don’t tell me about no separation of church and state. State is the body. Church is the heart. You take the heart out of the body, the body dies. I can’t separate my belief because I’m an elected official. When I walk, I walk with God. When I talk, I talk with God. When I put policies in place, I put them in with a God-like approach to them.
Mind you, this was not a Republican presidential candidate straining to win the approval of evangelical Christians. This was the mayor of New York, one of the most religiously diversesecular spots on the planet, echoing a viewpoint held by Christian nationalists who seek to make politics the agent of Christianity and Christianity the handmaiden of politics.
Adams was not going off-script. His remarks seem to represent his deeply held views. “The mayor’s closest aide, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, took the stage to declare that the Adams administration ‘doesn’t believe’ in the separation of church and state, characterizing the mayor of New York City as ‘definitely one of the chosen’ as she introduced him,”
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