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Religion and Politics: GOP Hopefuls Open Up about Their Faith

posted on June 22, 2015

The Associated Press’s Steve Peoples reports on the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority 2015” convention in Washington D.C., where many Republican presidential candidates discussed their faith in order to win over religious conservatives. “My faith has guided me for my entire life, and I don’t suspect that’s going to change,” former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, an evangelical, said. Peoples writes that other candidates held similar sentiments, “promising that Christian values would guide their personal decisions and public policies should they win the presidency.”

Read at The Associated Press