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Mark Harris: Conservatives 'Need To Come Out Of The Closet'

After coming in third(link is external) in his campaign for the GOP U.S. Senate nomination(link is external) in North Carolina, Pastor Mark Harris has returned to the helm of First Baptist Charlotte, where he opened last weekend’s sermon(link is external) with remarks objecting to marriage equality and abortion rights.

Harris told his congregation that the majority of Americans oppose the legalization of same-sex marriage and abortion but the media are shutting out such conservative views, while judges, such as the one who struck down North Carolina’s ban on gay marriage(link is external), are unilaterally “changing the will of the people.”

“Ladies and gentlemen, we cannot believe the lies that will be fed,” Harris said(link is external). “Listen, everybody else is coming out of the closet, maybe we need to come out of the closet.”