Katherine Harris, the Florida Republican who said electing non-Christians amounts to “legislating sin,” won her party’s U.S. Senate primary. Harris, currently in the U.S. House of Representatives, has said her comment to a Baptist publication was “taken out of context,” although it was published as a full transcript.
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