Where do the Clintons go to church?
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- February
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This last week, both Newsweek and the New York Times published stories related to Hillary’s strong religious roots, posing the question of whether her spiritual side might help her presidential candidacy. The Times story, in particular, wondered whether both Clinton and Obama have the edge over the leading Republicans, Giuliani and McCain, due to their churchgoing ways:
It’s not hard to envision Clinton and Obama among the faithful. She is a lifelong Methodist and self-described “praying person,� and he belongs to a church where some years ago he found himself (in his own words) “kneeling beneath that cross� in submission “to His will.� Both slip easily into the earnest, humble-of-the-earth mode of liberal God talk. But McCain and Giuliani? You somehow imagine them fidgeting during the hymns and checking their watches.
Newsweek pointed out that Hillary became a person of faith early in life:
The Rev. Don Jones, a Methodist minister who is now 75, was perhaps Hillary’s earliest spiritual and political mentor. She has written of her “lifelong friendship” with him. … he helped her through the darkest period in her life, the aftermath of her husband’s affair with Monica Lewinsky.
Precocious and confident, 13-year-old Hillary was an active member of her Methodist church in Park Ridge, Ill., when Jones arrived in 1961 to lead the youth group. … Hillary, politically aware even then, was a budding Republican who took after her staunchly conservative father. In long discussions at the church, Jones introduced Hillary to the left. The young minister was determined to show his white, privileged parishioners the world beyond their suburban town.
All this got me to thinking: Where do the Clintons actually go to church now? I scoured The Journal News archives and did a bunch of web searches, but aside from one sketchy site, I couldn’t find anything indicating where the two worship. Do they go to the United Methodist Church of Mount Kisco? The Bethel Baptist Church? Anyone know?
“Narrowing the Religion Gap” [NY Times]
“What Are Hillary Clinton’s Religious Beliefs?” [Newsweek]
(AP Photo/Shawn Baldwin)
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