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The personal faiths of presidential candidates, the churches they attend and the pastors they associate with, shouldn’t matter to voters in the upcoming election in November according to a statement released Friday by leaders representing the three largest African-American Baptist denominations.
The statement was prepared by Rev. Dr. T. DeWitt Smith Jr. (Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc.), the Rev. Dr. William J. Thurston (National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.) and the Rev. Dr. C. C. Robertson (National Missionary Baptist Convention, Inc.).
The leaders said that attacking candidates based on their church membership threatens one of the treasured constitutional commitments – religious freedom, which includes the freedom to worship and the prohibition on any religious test for qualification for public office.
They continue to state that where Senators Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Barack Obama or any other candidate worships, how they interpret scared Scripture, who they listen to, to preach the “good news” of the Gospel, and their choice of denominational affiliation should not be at issue.
The statement was released through the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty on April 4, the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination.
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