Entries tagged with “Religious Voters” from Religion and Ethics Newsweekly

Address to United Methodist Church General Conference
April 24, 1996

Then First Lady Hillary Clinton told the United Methodist General Conference in 1996 that her Methodist minister and the church's lay leaders taught her to apply her personal faith to her public life. She said Jesus' teachings and the church's Social Principles prodded her to fight for health care for uninsured children and other policies that "enable each child to have a chance to fulfill his or her God-given potential." (Video courtesy of United Methodist Church)

Selma Commemoration
March 4, 2007

When she spoke at First Baptist Church in Selma, Alabama during ceremonies to commemorate the 1965 Selma voting rights march, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton suggested that the health care issue is part of a modern-day civil rights movement and that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would have fought for it.

Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism's Consultation on Conscience
April 17, 2007

Presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton describes universal health care coverage as a moral obligation during a conference with Jewish religious leaders.

Watch excerpts from all three speeches in the video below: