Kamala Harris's running mate Tim Walz is a member of the liberal Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA)
Tim Walz, the Governor of Minnesota and running mate of the presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Kamala Harris, is a member of Pilgrim Lutheran Church in St. Paul, Minn., which is a part of the liberal denomination, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA).
Walz is known for supporting the 2020 riots in Minneapolis and signed legislation making Minnesota a sanctuary state for transgendering children. He also supported giving driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. Walz signed a bill mandating public schools place tampons in boys’ bathrooms.
As reported earlier, Harris is a member of Third Baptist Church, San Francisco’s oldest African-American church. Her parents raised her in Hinduism and Christianity, and she has a Jewish husband.
After serving as California’s Attorney General, Harris was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016 and later was called its most liberal member. As Senator, she co-sponsored bills aligned with several liberal causes including expanding gun control measures and passing “Medicare for All.” Harris also voted against many of former President Donald Trump’s nominees for federal judgeships and positions in his administration.
Her opponent, former President Donald Trump, said in a statement to the Religion News Service in 2020 that he identifies as a non-denominational Christian. Earlier in life he was confirmed as a Presbyterian. Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance, who comes from a long line of culturally Protestant Scots-Irish Americans from Appalachia, was baptized Catholic in August 2019.