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.
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.If that were really true, then I'm sure that there must have be quite a few pictures taken of her wearing one. Funny -- I've never seen a single one.
I'm confused...
Clinton's religion influences her politics = good
Republicans' religion influences their politics = bad
Clinton wears a cross = religious woman
Republicans go to church and practice what they preach = posers
Someone please explain!!!
If she's NOT abusing it, who knows? Saul used to persecute Christians. With God all things are possible.
She is an opportunist
Most folks I know who have a strong faith wear a cross acround their neck more then a couple times a year
"taught Sunday school as the First Lady of Arkansas and was an active member of a Washington church "
OK, that accounts for a week or so back in Arkanasas and perhaps 30 trips to a church in Washington.
Christianity must be polling well this week.
Only thing I'd like to see around Mrs. Clintons neck is a rope with 13 knots and her swinging from a lamp post als Musalini.
She's wearing it upside down.
What??!! Sheesh..my head is going to explode!!!!
Her FAITH has been part of her 'character'??
/end spittle spewing
Thank you Mad Dawg. Words I needed to hear.
she strikes me as a photo-op Christian. by your deeds shall you be known..........
More likely it's her friends that find it unbearable. Dems are the ones trying to erase our Christian heritage.
Then there's the smoke from the constant burning of the cross against Hillary's skin. Heeheeheehee...
I do.
In eleven days, she will, as usual, sacrifice a black goat to Satan.
What's cool is pretty soon she won't have to wear it. there will be a really cool burn tattoo where the cross lays. You won't be able to tell the difference.
I always thought it wouldn't take much effort for Mrs. Clinton to turn her head 360 degrees.
Oh, she will only have to show up for services gangbusters when the '08 campaign gears up in earnest. . until then, she can sleep in Sunday mornings, or perhaps she and Bill can renew their vows (in church, of course) in order to set the stage for more of their strutting.
My sister teaches Sunday School at a Mothodist church.
She's an open agnostic.
I read once about Hillary's church experience. She was shepherded on a regular basis by her youth pastor to political civil rights rallies. It sounded like one of those churches where God is sort of not really the important agenda.
Hey, didn't she say she was Jewish?
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