In a new interview, Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of pro-abortion presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, says she left the Baptist Church at the age of 6 because it has a strongly pro-life position opposing abortions.
Clinton made the comment at a recent fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in an attempt to address evangelicals who question her motherâs faith in God. She said she was upset when teachers in a Sunday School class talked about the wrongness of abortion.
âI find it quite insulting sometimes when people say to my mom, my dad or me . . . that they question our faith,â said Chelsea. âI was raised in a Methodist church and I left the Baptist church before my dad did, because I didnât know why they were talking to me about abortion when I was 6 in Sunday school â thatâs a true story.â
âMy mother is very deeply a person of faith,â Chelsea said. âIt is deeply authentic and real for my mother, and it guides so much of her moral compass, but also her lifeâs work.â
âI recognized that there were many expressions of faith that I donât agree with and feel [are] quite antithetical to how I read the Bible,â Chelsea said. âBut I find it really challenging when people who are self-professed liberals kind of look askance at my familyâs history.â
A New York Post columnist quoted her comments from a Democrat who took notes at the event.