Issues of faith and religion come to the forefront quite often during elections and presidential campaigns. In preparation for the primary elections, I sent each candidate a brief questionnaire about their faith and provided a "faith snapshot" of each of the 2008 presidential candidates. This project was updated as I received responses and found additional faith-related statements from the candidates.
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Party: Democratic
Age: 60
Education:
Wellesley College, B.A.
Yale Law School, J.D.
Current Position: U.S. Senator, New York
Experience: Attorney, First Lady of the United States
Declared Candidacy: Jan. 2007
Web site: Hillary for President
Religion/Church: United Methodist
Hillary Clinton has been a member of the United Methodist Church since childhood. During her youth she attended church regularly and later taught Sunday School in Arkansas after marrying Bill Clinton. As First Lady she worshipped regularly at Foundry United Methodist in Washington, DC. While serving as a U.S. Senator, she has promoted faith-based initiatives and is a member of the Senate prayer group.
Clinton said in her autobiography that her faith is a "crucial, though deeply personal" part of her life and family. In a speech to the National Leadership Foundation, she said, "People often ask me whether I'm a praying person, and I say I was lucky enough to be raised in a praying family, and learned to say my prayers as a very young child, and remembered seeing my late father by the side of his bed until his very last days saying his prayers. So I was fortunate. But I also say that had I not been a praying person that after I'd been in the White House for a few months, I would have become a praying person.
• Background & Religious Bio of Hillary Clinton
• How Hillary Clinton’s Faith Affects Her Policies
• Hillary Clinton's Rating from GodVoter.org
Democrats
Barack Obama - United Church of Christ
John Edwards - United Methodist
Bill Richardson - Roman Catholic
Mike Gravel - Unitarian Universalist
Dennis Kucinich - Roman Catholic
Republicans
Rudy Giuliani - Roman Catholic
Mike Huckabee - Southern Baptist
Mitt Romney - Mormon
Fred Thompson - Church of Christ
John McCain - Christian
Duncan Hunter - Southern Baptist
Ron Paul - Baptist
