{"id":1868424,"date":"2023-03-05T12:42:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T17:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/faith-is-who-i-am-nyc-mayor-reaffirms-that-faith-shapes-his-policies-after-separation-of-church-and-state-controversy\/"},"modified":"2023-03-05T12:42:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T17:42:56","slug":"faith-is-who-i-am-nyc-mayor-reaffirms-that-faith-shapes-his-policies-after-separation-of-church-and-state-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/faith-is-who-i-am-nyc-mayor-reaffirms-that-faith-shapes-his-policies-after-separation-of-church-and-state-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Faith Is Who I Am\u2019: NYC Mayor Reaffirms That Faith Shapes His Policies After \u2018Separation Of Church And State\u2019 Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffaith-is-who-i-am-nyc-mayor-reaffirms-that-faith-shapes-his-policies-after-separation-of-church-and-state-controversy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1868424&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> Eric Adams, New York City Democratic Mayor, doubled his belief in God and its influence on his governance style on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats were critical of Adams&#8217; comments at last week&#8217;s interfaith breakfast, where he seemed to dismiss the notion of separation between church and state. CNN interview. &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; Adams stated Sunday that he supports the idea, but reiterated that his faith is a major determinant of his decisions as mayor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[L]et&#8217;s be clear on something,&#8221; Adams said. &#8220;The last words I said after I was sworn in [were] \u2018so help me God.&#8217; On our dollar bill, we have \u2018In God We Trust.&#8217; Every president touched a religious book when they were sworn in, except for three.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Faith is who I am,&#8221; Adams continued. &#8220;And anyone who takes those words as stated that I&#8217;m going to try to compel people to follow my religion, no. I&#8217;m a child of God. I believe that wholly. I&#8217;m going to follow the law, I&#8217;m not going to compel people who believe in whatever faith it could be. If you&#8217;re in a synagogue, a Baptist church, a Buddhist temple, I&#8217;m in all of them. And that&#8217;s what was in my service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Adams clarified later that he supported the church-state seperation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to be very clear on this, so it won&#8217;t be distorted. Government should not interfere with religion. Religion should not interfere with government,&#8221; He said. &#8220;That can&#8217;t happen. And it should never happen. But my faith is how I carry out the practices that I do and the policies, such as helping people who are homeless, such as making sure that we show compassion in what we do in our city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t tell me about no separation of church and state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eric Adams, New York City mayor, discusses controversial comment he made at interfaith breakfast. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNNSotu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CNNSotu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CNNSOTU?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CNNSOTU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KtMCSb6Dm4\">pic.twitter.com\/KtMCSb6Dm4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CNN (@CNN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN\/status\/1632393177431699456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Adams was last to turn heads <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-says-prayers-replaced-by-guns-in-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tuesday<\/a> He spoke of the importance to instill faith in American children when he addressed them. He recited the words of Ingrid Lewis Martin, his chaplain who stated that the mayor&#8217;s office didn&#8217;t believe in separation of state and church during his remarks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t tell me about no separation of church and state,&#8221; Adams. &#8220;State is the body. Church is the heart. You take the heart out of the body, the body dies. I can&#8217;t separate my belief because I&#8217;m an elected official. When I walk, I walk with God. When I talk, I talk with God. When I put policies in place, I put them in with a Godlike approach to them. That&#8217;s who I am.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link c-link--focus-visible\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-191691\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Eric Adams is the NYC Mayor &#8220;Don&#8217;t tell me about no separation of church and state. State is the body. Church is the heart. You take the heart out of the body, the body dies&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nBx6mEFlBT\">pic.twitter.com\/nBx6mEFlBT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1630966490684964864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Adams&#8217; assertions sparked anger from many, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyclu.org\/en\/press-releases\/nyclu-reaction-mayor-adams-remarks-separation-church-and-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACLU&#8217;s New York state affiliate, NYCLU<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are a nation and a city of many faiths and no faith,&#8221; Donna Lieberman is the Executive Director at NYCLU. &#8220;In order for our government to truly represent us, it must not favor any belief over another, including non-belief.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CNN&#8217;s Dana Bash reported that the comments were made by one of the attending rabbis. &#8220;dangerous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Daniel Chaitin contributed this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/faith-is-who-i-am-nyc-mayor-reaffirms-that-faith-shapes-his-policies-after-separation-of-church-and-state-controversy\">\u2018Faith Is Who I Am&#8217;: NYC Mayor Reaffirms That Faith Shapes His Policies After \u2018Separation Of Church And State&#8217; Controversy<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Adams, New York City Democratic Mayor, doubled his belief in God and its influence on his governance style on Sunday. Democrats were critical of Adams&#8217; comments at last week&#8217;s interfaith breakfast, where he seemed to dismiss the notion of separation between church and state. CNN interview. &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; Adams stated Sunday that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1890928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[8848,5643,6733,5250,4602,7332,4600,11031,10587,20654,3772],"class_list":["post-1868424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-am","tag-church","tag-controversy","tag-faith","tag-mayor","tag-nyc","tag-policies","tag-reaffirms","tag-separation","tag-shapes","tag-state"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}