Religion and Politics

The Public and Private Faith of Hillary Clinton

CNN’s Daniel Burke reports on Hilary Clinton’s Methodist faith. Burke writes, “During her three decades in politics, Clinton has been quite willing to talk about how her work has been inspired by her Methodist faith. She traces some of her political positions, particularly concerning children and the poor, directly to Christ’s commandment to care for ‘the least of these.’” Despite Clinton’s lifelong Methodism, many evangelicals refuse to support her politically: “Clinton’s decades-long embrace of feminism and abortion rights clash with many conservative Christians’ core beliefs,” Burke writes.

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