Posted on 10/20/2006 5:31:13 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
Hillary enemies find her cross just unbearable
Hillary Clinton has appeared a handful of times this summer and fall with a cross around her neck, and it's an image that touches a nerve with the people who hate her. But Clinton is among the most religious Protestants seeking the presidency in 2008. If she gets the Democratic nod, she could well be matched against a less openly devout Republican.
"She's actually the real deal, although a lot of people don't think of her as religious," said John Green, a senior fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life in Washingon.
Clinton, a Methodist like President Bush, though from a more liberal wing of that church, has appeared publicly wearing a cross intermittently during her time in the Senate. Her aides didn't respond to questions about whether she is wearing the symbol more now than in the past.
But her faith has been part of her public character since she taught Sunday school as the First Lady of Arkansas and was an active member of a Washington church as First Lady.
The Atlantic Monthly reported recently that she's a member of an elite prayer group of about a dozen senators, including conservative Republicans like Rick Santorum and Sam Brownback whose Christianity is central to their politics.
Clinton's public displays of faith anger her critics, who see her as an opportunist - more than 800 people wrote comments, most of them attacking her, below her photograph on the Daily News political blog.
But her public devotion is in striking contrast with many of the front-runners vying for President, and particularly the Republicans, most of whom are quite distant from the born-again Christian faiths of their most energetic partisans.
Rudy Giuliani is a Catholic on his third marriage. Massachussetts Gov. Mitt Romney is a Mormon, not a mainstream Protestant. Sen. John McCain is an Episcopalian who has kept his faith out of his public life to the degree that longtime adviser Marshall Wittman said he wasn't sure whether the senator attends church.
"Sen. McCain goes to church every Sunday that he can. He is devout, but very private about it," said McCain spokeswoman Elaine McMenamin, who offered to put a reporter in touch with McCain's pastor.
I understand this is a multi-purpose piece. Cross on one side, Star of David on the other, and if you pull open a hidden compartment, a complete burka pops out so she can appeal to her real supporters.
You got that right...........I used to belong to the Methodist Church, but that was back in the days when it was still a Christian religion.
POSEUR ALERT!
"Elite" prayer group? What the heck?!?!?
There is no way on God's green earth I can believe that this woman is a practicing christian. Not with her publically avowed beliefs and reported private practices. Unbefreaking-lievable!
Is her cross as large as her husband's bible?
At the same time, Hillary is angering her Democratic comrades for wearing the cross. Devoutness (even faked) is Not tolerated in the Rat party, unless it is to Marxism.
LOL!
She taught Sunday school? The quote about the devil being able to quote scripture comes to mind.
Does a devout Methodist allow her husband to rape women and then help him destroy the women in public to save their power?
Okay, folks, if you will do some research and get me some photos, Hillary deserves a YouTube on this.
Does the liberal wing of the Methodist Church use f'ing Jew b*st*rd as a descriptive term for Jews?
When someone in the liberal wing of the Methodist Church swears an oath to tell the truth, are they allowed to pretend not to recall and outright lie?
Does that mean their prayers count more than other people's? Why do I have trouble reconciling this concept with Christian faith?
Swell. They went to Foundry United Methodist Church in Georgetown, which was presided over by the Rev. Phillip Wogaman.
Belonging to that church is like having a Communist Party Card with a single digit membership number.
Kind of like... The last will be first and the first will be last?
No, Hillary should be sporing the religious symbol that best describes her: an inverted pentagram.
And her campaign song, at least for her "true believers"?
Six six six
The number of the Beast!
Six six six
The one for you and me!
I'm coming back
I shall return.....
Remember the media's scorn when reporting that Bush wore a WWJD bracelet?
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