Because of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's staunch support for abortion service provider Planned Parenthood, many evangelical leaders have been questioning the veracity of her Christian faith.
But as far as Clinton's vide president Tim Kaine is concerned, there should be no more doubts about Clinton's faith. Speaking before the Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc.'s annual meeting last week in New Orleans, Kaine discussed how Clinton's Methodist background helped shape her life's choices.
"Some of you know this story. She was a Midwestern Methodist church kid. Now, I know a lot of those Midwestern Methodist church kids growing up. And there is a beautiful sense of duty," said Kaine, according to The Christian Post.
"I think a lot of you know Hillary very well, either from her time in Arkansas, her time as first lady, her time as senator, time as secretary of state. That Methodist connection, that beautiful sense of duty, the obligation to others, that is the root of everything she does," he added.
When she was just a young girl, Clinton's youth pastor even took her to Chicago to meet with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "who talked to her about migrant worker issues beyond what she had experienced."
Because of that encounter, Kaine said Clinton became aware that there were a lot of issues in America that she needs to help address.
"So as a law student, she went to work for Marian Wright Edelman at the Children's Defense Fund," Kaine said. "She went to Dothan, Alabama to expose and investigate school segregation after she graduated. She went to Yale. She could have gone to Wall Street. She could have gone anywhere, but she went to work for the Children's Defense Fund to defend the right of young people in South Carolina's juvenile justice system."
