FALSE PROPHET

Mark Harris is an ordained Baptist pastor and North Carolinian politician. He first ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018 and is a 2024 candidate. However, after what Politico calls “credible allegations of voter fraud,” the state Board of Elections did not certify the 2018 election results, prompting a new election. Harris has denied knowledge of wrongdoing by McCrae Dowless, who died of cancer before his 2022 trial on charges related to fraudulent absentee ballot schemes in 2016 and 2018. He also previously served as the national director of community impact for fellow False Prophet Tony Perkins’s Family Research Council.

Harris’s 2024 congressional campaign has been endorsed by fellow False Prophet Mark Robinson and has tried to draw comparisons between himself and fellow False Prophet ex-President Donald Trump, claiming “Democrats stole the election from him” like they did with Trump. He has also made what he calls traditional family values a core plank of his campaign, citing his efforts in support of the 2012 state constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman (the amendment was eventually overturned as unconstitutional by a federal court in 2014). Harris also promises to “fight against the leftist woke agenda”

In 2018, CNN reported that Harris had previously called Islam “dangerous” and the work of Satan. According to the same report, Harris “also said peace between Israel and the Palestinians could not be achieved until Muslims and Jews accepted Jesus Christ as their savior.” 

ABC News reported in 2018 that a sermon delivered by Harris in 2013 “discusses ‘God's plan for biblical womanhood’ and argues that society 'created a culture and created an environment that have made it extremely difficult for any woman… to live out and fulfill God's design.’” In the same sermon, he said that  "only one title is given to a woman in all of scripture... the title given to a woman is 'helper.'"

Harris is also reported to have been a leader in the North Carolina effort to prohibit local communities “from creating their own rules prohibiting discrimination in public places based on sexual orientation and gender identity.”