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Andrew Isker Says Deuteronomy Prohibits Kamala Harris From Being President

Andrew Isker

Right-wing pastor Andrew Isker recently delivered a guest sermon at church in Indiana where he declared that Vice President Kamala Harris is biblically unqualified to be a leader and that it's "insane" that she might actually become president. 

Isker is a far-right Christian nationalist who interned under Douglas Wilson and who co-wrote "Christian Nationalism: A Biblical Guide For Taking Dominion And Discipling Nations" with Andrew Torba, the virulently antisemitic founder of the social media platform Gab

Isker focused his recent remarks on a passage from Deuteronomy that declares that "no one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord" and "no one born of a forbidden union may enter the assembly of the Lord. Even to the tenth generation, none of his descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord." 

Isker insisted that this was an instruction on how to "construct a temporal order" by requiring leaders to have both a connection to the past via ancestry and to the future via offspring. 

Since Harris is the child of immigrants and a stepmother with no biological children, Isker asserted that she is unqualified to sit in the Oval Office. 

"One of the candidates for president, she has no children," Isker said while delivering what he called his "anti-endorsement."

"Mrs. Harris," he continued, "neither of her parents are from America, right? She was born in California, but they both were on on student visas. She doesn't have a connection to the history of this people."

"If you think about the principle of what this is teaching, she is not connected to the past of this country whatsoever," Isker declared. "She doesn't have ancestors that fought in the Civil War or ancestors who fought in the Revolutionary War."

"It's insane, really, that this person who is without a future and without much of a past, at least here, is attaining the highest office in the land, is being installed as the President of the United States," Isker proclaimed.

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Insisting that ancient rules for Israelites about who "may enter the assembly of the Lord" still apply thousands of years later not just to the church but to the government of the United States is a hallmark of hardline Christian nationalists who promote general equity theonomy and want to see, for instance, women publicly executed for falsely claiming to have been sexually assaulted and people put to death for adultery.