WASHINGTON (RNS) — Throughout her 2016 presidential campaign, one facet of Hillary Clinton, 68, has been unchanging. She was, is and likely always will be a social-justice-focused Methodist.
This has been evident across her decades as a lawyer, first lady, senator and secretary of state right up to her passionate response to a question about faith at a Democrats Town Hall a week before the Iowa caucus. Clinton drew her answer from her Bible, where, she said, she learned, "The most important commandment is to love the Lord with all your might and to love your neighbor as yourself, and that is what I think we are commanded by Christ to do."
(RNS) — When The New York Times endorsed Ohio Gov. John Kasich on the eve of the Iowa caucus, their praise focused on his pragmatic, calm voice for "government's duty to protect the poor, the mentally ill and others 'in the shadows.'"
He told conservative talk host Hugh Hewitt: "Look, we have a lot of candidates who like the prince of darkness. I consider myself the prince of light and hope," Kasich told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt.
