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Related: About this forumJeb Bush puts trust in God as polling plummets and purse strings tighten
Source: The Guardian
Jeb Bush puts trust in God as polling plummets and purse strings tighten
Dan Roberts in Virginia Beach
Monday 26 October 2015 11.00 GMT
Mired in the deepest political crisis of his career, Jeb Bush is turning to God for salvation.
Forced to slash campaign spending after falling far behind Donald Trump and Ben Carson in the Republican primary race, the former establishment favourite is looking to the party faithful to rescue his dream of following his brother and father to the White House.
On Friday, in the shadow of the giant satellite dishes of the Christian Broadcasting Network, Bush came to Virginias Regent University, an institution founded by the controversial televangelist Pat Robertson, to promote his credentials as a social conservative and champion of the church.
I realised that Jesus was my saviour and I accepted him in the late 1980s, said the former governor of Florida, stressing his anti-abortion record over the years since and a newfound support for those opposing gay marriage.
Religious liberty is being challenged today not just overseas but here at home, and people of faith need to stand on principle to protect the first freedom of the greatest country on earth, he explained.
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Dan Roberts in Virginia Beach
Monday 26 October 2015 11.00 GMT
Mired in the deepest political crisis of his career, Jeb Bush is turning to God for salvation.
Forced to slash campaign spending after falling far behind Donald Trump and Ben Carson in the Republican primary race, the former establishment favourite is looking to the party faithful to rescue his dream of following his brother and father to the White House.
On Friday, in the shadow of the giant satellite dishes of the Christian Broadcasting Network, Bush came to Virginias Regent University, an institution founded by the controversial televangelist Pat Robertson, to promote his credentials as a social conservative and champion of the church.
I realised that Jesus was my saviour and I accepted him in the late 1980s, said the former governor of Florida, stressing his anti-abortion record over the years since and a newfound support for those opposing gay marriage.
Religious liberty is being challenged today not just overseas but here at home, and people of faith need to stand on principle to protect the first freedom of the greatest country on earth, he explained.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/26/jeb-bush-religious-right-evangelicals
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Jeb Bush puts trust in God as polling plummets and purse strings tighten (Original Post)
Eugene
Oct 2015
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,681 posts)1. Good luck with that. As the saying goes...
"Man plans and God laughs." I laugh at how all these fundie candidates seem to think God wants them to be President, and they expect him to do the work for them. If I were a religious person I'd suspect God is just fucking with them.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)2. I thought god was suppose to stay out of government
Yorktown
(2,884 posts)3. barring an unforeseen seism, I think the Republicans are now doomed.
Jeb, Carson or Trump?
Really?
MisterP
(23,730 posts)4. "in God we trust, all others pay cash," eh?
mr blur
(7,753 posts)5. "...the greatest country on earth", eh?
Is that was Gawd says?