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THE BRODY FILE Hillary Clinton: I Believe in the “Atoning Death of Jesus”
David Brody CBN News Capitol Hill Correspondent
March 9, 2007
My guess is Brody File readers would be interested in Hillary =
Clinton’s past statements about her faith. I’ve uncovered some. The =
Brody File research room has found the following: In a Newsweek =
magazine article from October of 1994, Hillary was asked:
“Do you believe in the father, son and Holy Spirit? Hillary: “Yes” “The atoning death of Jesus?” Hillary: “Yes”
Later in that same article, Clinton a lifelong Methodist had this to =
say about salvation:
“I think that the Methodist Church, for a period of time, became too =
socially concerned, too involved in the social gospel and did not pay =
enough attention to questions of personal salvation and individual =
faith.=94
In 1998, Richard Dujardin with the Providence Journal-Bulletin wrote =
an article detailing how Philip Yancy, the famous Evangelical =
Christian author had the following encounter with Hillary Clinton:
“Yancey, then went on to relate a story about Hillary Clinton and her =
experience when she was invited to a Bible study group hosted by =
Susan Baker, the wife of former Secretary of State James Baker, and =
various congressional wives. Hillary, he said, confided later that =
she came with her guard up, expecting that her hosts were going to =
try to “get” her on abortion and gay rights. As she put it, “I was =
ready for anything.” But what transpired in the first few minutes was =
nothing she had anticipated. Susan Baker, he said, told Hillary, =
“Thank you for gracing us with your presence, but before we begin, =
we’d like to say there are a lot of Christians who haven’t acted much =
like Jesus toward you and your husband. We’ve told jokes about you. =
We’ve slandered you. There are a lot of policies we differ on, but we =
haven’t acted like Jesus . . . Mrs. Clinton, would you please forgive =
us?” Yancey said Mrs. Clinton ended up asking if there was another =
group “like this” to which she could bring her daughter Chelsea, =
because she hadn’t met many grace-filled Christians before.
And finally, this one from The Boston Herald in November of 2004. =
Clinton was referring to Evangelical voters when she addressed a =
crowd at Tufts University:
“I don’t think you can win an election or even run a successful =
campaign if you don’t acknowledge what is important to people,” she =
said at a speaking engagement at Tufts University. “We don’t have to =
agree with them. But being ignored is a sign of such disrespect. And =
therefore I think we should talk about these issues.”
What say you? She may not see eye to eye with Evangelicals on =
abortion and gay rights, but she will make the case (like many =
Democrats do) that biblical values run deeper to include poverty, the =
environment, the war in Iraq, stopping the genocide in Darfur, etc.