Posted on 04/30/2015 9:37:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hillary Clinton wants to be president of the United States, but what actually guides her? The only currently declared candidate for the Democratic ticket was raised in the Methodist tradition and continues to practice that faith today. Here are six interesting facts about Clinton's faith as it relates to her candidacy and personal life.
1) Clinton was raised in the First United Methodist Church in Park Ridge, Illinois, and wrote in her book It Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us that "religion figures in my earliest memories of my family. Our spiritual life as a family was spirited and constant. We talked with God, walked with God, ate, studied and argued with God. Each night, we knelt by our beds to pray before we went to sleep."
After winning the presidential election in 1996, the Clintons attended Washington's Foundry United Methodist Church, and Hillary participated in a bipartisan prayer group for women.
2) Social justice is a major part of Clinton's religious practice.
"We need a new politics of meaning," she said at a Texas convention in 1993. "We have to summon up what we believe is morally and ethically and spiritually correct and do the best we can with God's guidance."
"The Church was a critical part of my growing up, and in preparing for this event, I almost couldn't even list all the ways it influenced me, and helped me develop as a person, not only on my own faith journey, but with a sense of obligations to others," she said at the 1996 United Methodist Convention.
3) Clinton wants to change the perception that the Democratic Party is hostile to religion.
"[It] has been viewed as a part that didn't understand the values and way of life of so many Americans," she said in 2008 at the CNN Compassion Forum. "It's important that we make clear that we believe people are people of faith because it is part of their whole being. It is what gives them meaning in life."
4) She believes the religious views of others must change to support legal abortion.
"Far too many women are denied access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth, and laws don't count for much if they're not enforced. Rights have to exist in practice — not just on paper," Clinton said on April 23 at the Women in the World Summit. "Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs, and structural biases have to be changed."
5) Clinton referred to religion both when she opposed and supported same-sex marriage.
"Marriage has historic, religious, and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time, and I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman," she said in 1996, according to God and Hillary Clinton by Paul Kengor.
"One of my big problems right now is that too many people believe they have a direct line to the divine and they never want to change their mind about anything," Clinton told NPR's Terry Gross during an interview in 2014 in which she said she now supports gay marriage. "We are living at a time when this extraordinary change is occurring and I'm proud of our country. I think that we have all evolved, and it's been one of the fastest, most sweeping transformations that I'm aware of."
6) Clinton once attended prayer meetings with Republican Senators Sam Brownback and Rick Santorum.
While a U.S. senator, Clinton attended a bipartisan prayer meeting, which included some of the Senate's most conservative Republicans, like Sam Brownback, Kan., and Rick Santorum, Penn.
At one of those meetings, Brownback stopped short of telling his testimony to ask Clinton's forgiveness for the sins of feeling hatred toward her and saying derogatory things about her, according to The Atlantic.
"I came here today prepared to share about this experience in my life that has caused great suffering, the result of which has deepened my faith. But I'm overcome now with only one thought," Brownback said upon seeing Clinton in the meeting.
After asking for her forgiveness, Clinton said she appreciated the apology and forgave him.
Ever since then, Clinton found it easier to work with both sides of the political divide, and even co-sponsored a bill with Brownback. She has worked with conservatives and liberals alike, showing that she is able to use her faith in the political realm to foster good for her causes and agenda.
That says more about Sam Brownback’s faith than Hillary. I hope she is true but I can’t imagine flip flopping on gay marriage and using her faith to push abortion to show a Biblical faith. Maybe a Methodist version......On the other hand, liberals who claim Christianity view the Bible as living like they do the constitution of the United States. Living means open to new interpretation and understanding.
Whatever the stupid sheeple will buy she’ll say. The Clintons have always been focus group followers, always!
It is good that she does not allow her religion get in the way of her life style. /s
Having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.
Yeah, right/s.
#4 proves she has no Christian faith, only Christian words. She has not a clue regarding the righteousness of God Who condemns the slaughtering of alive unborn fellow humans and the condoning acceptance of sexual deviancy. The woman is of her father, the father of lies a murderer from the start. She is the spirit of anti-Christ rising in our midst as the prophesied falling away happens in our age.
A curious title for a piece about Hillary.
My, what a lovely, bi-partisan woman! She is oh, so enlightened! Much holier than you or me!
I believe Hillary is a cunning liar and ruthless deceiver. I say these things not in anger but in emotionless observation. I simply do not see any truth in her.
Oftentimes, people make disparaging remarks about others in the spotlight based on biases that are established in their own cultural and political milieu.
But I can say honestly without any bias at all, that Hillary Clinton is not a follower of Jesus Christ. My view is not based on her words but rather her responses, actions and results.
“A tree is known by its fruit.”
I will never forget that Hillary Clinton and her husband, even now, have lied relentlessly through a media that has scripted a narrative for them that is absurd for people to believe is true. For example, after her husband disgraced the Office of the Presidency by his predatory abominable behavior before a young woman under his authority, Hillary was seen with him dancing on a beach in the West Indies as if nothing had ever happened. There was no apology, no remorse, no urgency for forgiveness, no repentant behavior.
I, a sinner, am humbled before Christ My Lord, but still hold myself responsible for my vote which is collected with millions of others to determine who will produce the best fruit that is harvested in our United States of America, as the governing protector of liberty. I pray for wisdom and strength in a candidate that will overcome the lies that own Hillary Clinton.
I see truth and Christ’s guiding hand in Ted Cruz. I pray everyday that Americans see the same in him and elect him as our leader.
Another bastardization of the English language.
She actually believes that for her to acquire the appropriate power (as US president) she will be crowned the Great Mother Earth Goddess.
So, she has to fool us into thinking that she is a Christian and always has been, although her actions denote that she is allergic to Jesus Christ.
She desires death, innocent death. What should become of her?
“to foster good for her causes and agenda” = An almost uniformly twisted evil, anti-Christian thing....
Satan.
So Christian faith supports banning gay marriage and also celebrating it? I guess it also supports both killing babies and being nice to them. Or maybe not the second “choice.”
RE: Hillary Clinton wants to be president of the United States, but what actually guides her?
Satan.
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LOL.
The only thing that guides Hillary Clinton is the hand of Satan. If she ever put her hand on the Bible she would self destruct.
Hillary started out bad. At age 24-26 she was fired from her position as a staffer/attorney/researcher on the Watergate scandal for lying, fraud and lack of integrity. You can’t blame Billy Jeff for that.
Just sayin'.
FMCDH(BITS)
After hanging with huma for so long, I thinks she’s probably an enemy islamist.
She sure acts like one.
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