Chelsea Clinton wants people to believe she left the Baptist church at age 6 because it conflicted with her personal views on abortion.
Clinton’s comments were quoted by an anonymous Democrat who attended a recent fundraiser for her mother, presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, and forwarded them to the New York Post’s Page Six.
“I find it quite insulting sometimes when people say to my mom, my dad or me … that they question our faith,” Chelsea said, according to the informant. “I was raised in a Methodist church and I left the Baptist church before my dad did, because I didn’t know why they were talking to me about abortion when I was 6 in Sunday school – that’s a true story.”
The experience apparently convinced the young Clinton to quit the Baptist church in favor of the more abortion friendly Methodist church. Page Six noted Chelsea’s husband, Marc Mezvinsky, is Jewish, and former President Bill Clinton was raised a Baptist.
“I recognized that there were many expressions of faith that I don’t agree with and feel (are) quite antithetical to how I read the Bible,” she said, “but I find it really challenging when people wo are self-professed liberals kind of look askance at my family’s history.”
Chelsea assured her audience her mother is very, very religious, the source told Page Six.
“My mother is very deeply a person of faith,” Chelsea said. “It is deeply authentic and real for my mother, and it guides so much of her moral compass, but also her life’s work.”
Like Chelsea, Hillary Clinton’s “moral compass” doesn’t include empathy for aborted babies.
Hillary Clinton repeatedly defended abortion provider Planned Parenthood amid the recent Congressional investigation into videos showing the agency altered abortion procedures to more effectively harvest baby organs for sale.
“Attacks on Planned Parenthood are attacks on women’s health and rights,” Clinton tweeted in October. “We can’t let them take us backwards.”
She also lashed out at Republicans working to defund Planned Parenthood, one of her biggest political backers, despite the fact that the agency reported $127 million in excess revenue last year, Breitbart reports.
“They don’t mind having big government interfere with a woman’s right to choose and to try and take down Planned Parenthood,” she said. “They’re fine with big government when it comes to that. I’m sick of it.”
Baptist leaders, of course, took issue with Clinton’s support for Planned Parenthood, and let her know it over Twitter.
“Secretary Clinton, it isn’t ‘big government’ to stop the Govt from funding Planned Parenthood,” Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission President Russell Moore posted.
“Nor is it too much to expect the government to stop the killing of babies,” Tony Ziekle tweeted to Moore.
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