Marco Rubio fielded questions about his faith at an Iowa event this week.
According to The Washington Post, Rubio “sounded more like a Sunday
school teacher than a presidential candidate” at a town hall where he
talked about Jesus and John the Baptist.
One question was “On your decision-making, will you follow God’s word?”
Rubio responded: “Yes, I try every day in everything I do.”
The Florida Republican senator is trying to encourage Christian conservative voters to support him.
“I do think it’s important for our president to be someone who is
influenced by their faith, especially if it’s Christianity, because it
is a faith that teaches you to care for the less fortunate, to seek
peace, to care for one another, even to love your enemy,” Rubio told
reporters Tuesday.
Also in Iowa, Rubio talked about his faith in his own family.
“My wife Jeanette and I are raising four children right now, and we
have to work harder than ever to ensure that our children grow up with
the values they teach in our church instead of the values they are
trying to ram down our throats in the popular culture,” he said.
Rubio is Roman Catholic, but, as a child, was a member of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Las Vegas. Today, he attends a
Southern Baptist megachurch.
In Iowa polls, Sen. Ted Cruz has most of the Christian right support.
Trump, however, recently earned the endorsement of Liberty University
President Jerry Falwell, Jr.
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