Angle Jersey Controversy about Far More than Football

Sharron Angle is once again making news because she’s opposed to the separation of church and state. It’s a belief Angle's consistently held for more than two decades, and that her new DC handlers are trying to brush off with glib jokes, but which media has acknowledged is a legitimate campaign issue.

Today Las Vegas political reporter Steve Sebelius points out that Angle’s radical philosophy on the marriage of religion and government dates back decades. He also takes Team Angle to task for its handling of a controversy over Angle’s objection to a high school football team wearing black jerseys because black is the color of evil and invokes the devil, originally revealed in a Pahrump Valley Times column.

Sebelius writes:

Angle’s Communications Director Jarrod Agen… should get points for humor, but not for the attempted sleight of hand.

See, this isn’t about a high-school football game from 20 years ago. This is about whether Angle is willing to impose her religious beliefs on public policy in a secular democracy… It’s about whether a relatively minor decision by a coach at a secular high school should be overridden by the religious concerns of those seeking public office. And it raises the perfectly legitimate question: If Angle is willing to crusade against the color black because she thinks it’s evil, what would she do to confront other things she thinks are evil?

·         She’s already said she favors a ban on abortion with no exceptions, not even for rape or incest.

·         She’s already said social programs promote a dependency on government that leads to idolatry.

·         She’s already said she thinks alcohol should be treated like marijuana, i.e. made illegal.

·         She was once chairwoman of a PAC in Nevada that had as one of its goals to ban pornography and that said the “radical homosexual movement” was out to destroy the traditional family structure.

·         And she’s already said the doctrine of separation of church and state is “unconstitutional.”

So these are not petty questions about a two-decade-old football game, but important and contemporary questions about the kind of leader Angle would be, should she get elected in November.