He has NOT distanced himself. He said he doesn’t want his religious life being used as fodder in the campaign. He has every right to say that. Fred says he’s a Christian, and has never shown any hostility toward Christianity or traditional morals.
My VERY conservative Christian parents and I are behind Fred. We are convincing our large family one by one.
Fred does not have to tell me how he worships GOD no more than Roosevelt or Eisenhower did. I want them to have the counsel when needed. That’s all.
I never witnessed his private devotions. I never inquired about them. I should have thought it the greatest heresy to doubt his firm belief in Christianity. His life, his writings, prove that he was a Christian. He was not one of those who act or pray, “that they may be seen of men” [Matthew 6:5]. He communed with his God in secret [Matthew 6:6].
Nelly Custis-Lewis, 1833, Granddaughter of Martha Washington
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-wall/wal-g011.html
I am very interested where he said this? A public proclaimation of Christianity is first most in my book on a canidate to vote for. Yes, I have a large family too, and they vote with me 99% of the time.