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Partial transcript from KVIE-TV (PBS channel 6) program Express which was broadcast on 15 March 1996. This is an exchange between program host Van Gordan Sauter and the Reverend Rick Cole, Senior Pastor of the 15,000 member Capital Christian Center, Sacramento.
Other panel members were Will Harris, Northern CA Coordinator for the Christian Coalition, Rev. Patricia Whitney-Wise, Executive Director of the CA Council of Churches, and Jerry Sloan.
Sloan brought out how Pat Robertson had said that only Christians were qualified to hold public office and the following exchange took place:
RC: As a Christian we are sensitive and open to other people's beliefs. We don't believe that they have truth if they don't believe in Jesus Christ as the savior of man's sins, then we don't believe that they have truth.
VGS: But wait a second, couldn't an agnostic become president of this country? Would that automatically preclude somebody from becoming a candidate that you would find acceptable?
RC: I personally wouldn't find them acceptable, no, because the only foundation for making law and governing people - there has to be a guide book - it can't be democracy where majority rules, we're a republic, we're not a democracy.
VGS: Would you support a Jew to become President of the United States? Would you preclude a Jewish candidate?
RC: I think that would only depend on who else was running. It would depend on what I had to choose from. If they were the best candidate on moral issues and on Christian principles on biblical foundations for government ...
VGS: What if they were very strong on Jewish principles?
RC: As long as they don't try to establish a state religion of Judaism, then I'm not going to have a problem if their foundation is a moral standard of biblical principle. And, if there's not a Christian person who has those same standards then I would not have a problem voting for that person because their foundation is going to be biblical absolutes.
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