A video of GOP Georgia gubernatorial candidate Kandiss Taylor showing to denounce separation of church and state has been seen greater than 670,000 instances on Twitter.

Taylor made the remarks through the Georgia Republican Meeting on April 2, however a video capturing the remarks, shared by PatriotTakes, went viral on Twitter over the weekend, with many condemning her feedback.

"Do not discuss to me about separation of church and state," she mentioned. "Church and state was written as a result of the state has no enterprise in our church. However we're the church. We're the church, and we run the state."

She mentioned that Georgia is "sovereign" and "we're operating the state with Jesus Christ first" earlier than including that different religions do not get to "silence" Christians.

"The benefit of the primary modification is that in the event you're a Jew otherwise you're a Muslim otherwise you're a Buddhist, you continue to get to worship your god since you're in America. However you do not get to silence us," she mentioned.

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A video of GOP Georgia governor candidate Kandiss Taylor showing to denounce separation of church and state has been seen greater than 670,000 instances on Twitter. Above, a inventory picture of a Bible. Kevin Brine/Getty Pictures

Some viewers responded to the video with criticism, arguing her remarks went towards the U.S. Structure.

"This goes towards the Structure of the US," wrote @RockyMountainViews.

"This Jew says kiss my tuchus Kandiss. Go pray in church. Maintain it out of politics. Not everyone seems to be Christian. There's freedom of faith and I need not hear it. There's separation of church and state for a motive. What a jacka**," wrote @BrokenDestinies.

Taylor responded to criticisms in a tweet Saturday night.

"The extra I hear folks say for me to take Jesus out of my marketing campaign, the extra I double down. Hey! He's why I am operating for governor. I do not compromise," she wrote.

Later within the video, Taylor, discussing weapons, mentioned that folks have the fitting to guard themselves from a "tyrannical authorities," pointing to Australia for example. Australia has come beneath fireplace from U.S. conservatives for strict COVID restrictions. (In response to the Cato Institute's Human Freedom Index, Australia has a better rating for each private and human freedoms than the US.)

Taylor is one among a number of Republicansdifficult Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, who has confronted criticism from some conservatives for rebuking former President Donald Trump's unfounded claims of election fraud. Inside the GOP main, she usually polls within the single digits, trailing each Kemp and Trump-backed David Perdue, who beforehand served as a United States senator.

She beforehand ran for U.S. Senate in 2020, successful lower than 1 % of the vote.

Newsweek reached out to the Taylor marketing campaign for remark.