(CP) Vice President Kamala Harris quoted from the Gospel of Luke when giving a message to the African Methodist Episcopal Church, saying that her campaign is “focused on the longer term.”
In a video message given to the AME Church General Conference on Tuesday, the Democrat presidential nominee commended the historically black denomination for its efforts to get people registered to vote.
“Organizing souls to the polls, ensuring your members are registered and able to vote,” she observed. “Because, after all, everyone knows that that is essentially the most consequential election of our lifetime.”
Harris said that the United States faces “a alternative between two very different visions for the longer term of our nation,” together with her campaign being “focused on the longer term” while the Republican candidate, former President Donald Trump and his campaign are “focused on the past.”
“We should not going back,” Harris stated. “We are fighting for a future where no child has to grow up in poverty, where every senior can retire with dignity, and one and all has the chance to own a house, start a business, and construct intergenerational wealth.”
“A future with reasonably priced health care, reasonably priced child care and paid leave, and a future where we protect our most fundamental freedoms and rights, including the liberty to worship.”
Harris went on to cite Luke 1:79, which describes faith as having the ability “to shine on those living in darkness and within the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the trail of peace.”
“In moments comparable to this, faith guides us forward,” she continued. “Faith within the promise of America. Freedom, opportunity, and justice. Not for some, but for all.”
Harris’ remarks got here as a part of the AME Church’s 52nd Quadrennial Session of the General Conference, held Aug. 21-28 on the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio.
General Conference Commission Chair Bishop James L. Davis greeted attendees, stating that “we’re at a defining moment within the history of our church and our world.”
“I hope that our combined energy, commitment, and dedication to God’s plan for us as agents of liberation and social justice for all humankind, will lead us to re-imagine transformations for empowering and developing clergy and lay for the subsequent phase of this journey,” said Davis.
“May God grant us wisdom and courage to steer the church He placed in our hands within the direction He wants it to go for embracing all members of the human family.”
Last month, President Joe Biden announced that he was not going to run for reelection, and endorsed Harris as his alternative because the Democratic Party’s nominee for president.
Earlier this month, Harris officially accepted the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party, having secured enough support from delegates despite the fact that she had not received a single vote in the course of the primary season.
“I might be a president who unites us around our highest aspirations. A president who leads and listens; who’s realistic, practical and has common sense,” she stated during her acceptance speech on the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
“It is now our turn to do what generations before us have done, guided by optimism and faith, to fight for this country we love, to fight for the ideals we cherish and to uphold the awesome responsibility that comes with the best privilege on Earth: the privilege and pride of being an American.”
