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.
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