Sharron Angle: God planned your rape, don't abort!

The Nevada Senate candidate says abortion is always wrong because there is a divine purpose to all pregnancies

Published June 29, 2010 9:30PM (EDT)

Sharron Angle, the Tea Party's Nevada Senate candidate
Sharron Angle, the Tea Party's Nevada Senate candidate

Sharron Angle may be giving the press the silent treatment now, but she hasn't always been so tight-lipped. Think Progress (via Alternet) has dug up some eyebrow-raising audio of a radio interview the Nevada Senate candidate did with Bill Manders back in January. The subject: abortion. Her stance: disgusting.

Manders asks her whether there is "any reason at all for an abortion," and she answers: "Not in my book." For clarity, he says: "So, in other words, rape and incest would not be something?" And Angle replies with this reasoning: "You know, I'm a Christian, and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things." You see, God planned your rape and pregnancy. Isn't that reassuring?

You'll have to listen to the clip below to believe it. Take comfort in the fact that God fully intended for you to watch this clip and become so thoroughly incensed that you take off work early and get a drink at the nearest watering hole. Tell the bartender first round is on Him.


By Tracy Clark-Flory

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