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• Sarah Palin was baptized a Roman Catholic when she was
baby but began visiting the Wasilla Assembly of God, a
Pentecostal church along with her mother in her teens. Sarah
Palin now visits various churches and does not consider herself a
Pentecost
• Palin visits the independent Christian churches; Church
on the Rock, Juneau Christian Centre and the Wasilla bible
Church.
• Palin once stated that "Nobody is going to convince me
that my foundation of faith is not good for me and for my family
no matter the mocking, no matter what any body says about it, I'm
going to keep plugging away at this and I'm going to keep seeking
God's guidance and His wisdom and His favor and His grace, for
me, for my family, for this campaign, for our nation."?
• She was the leader of her neighborhood Fellowship of
Christian Athletes group during her high school years.
• Her expressions of faith can be understood from her
pro-life stance and her Christian faith which prevented her from
aborting her fifth pregnancy despite the fact that the tests
revealed that the child would be born with Down's syndrome. She
says that they are blessed to be chosen by God to look after this
special baby.
• Her Christian faith comes from her mother who used to
make her children visit the area Bible churches during their
adolescent years.
• When questioned what religion she was by Time Magazine,
Sarah replied, "Christian" and when asked whether she was any
particular type of Christian she answered "No, Bible believing
Christian."
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• Mike Huckabee is a Baptist.
• Mike Huckabee attends church at Rock Creek in Little
Rock, Arkansas.
• Huckabee strongly believes in the infallibility of the
Bible, as a result of which he rejects evolution.
• As a teenage boy he led his own Southern Baptist group
at the Beach Street First Baptist Church in Texarkana.
• In 1989 he was elected the president of the Arkansas
Baptist State Convention and the youngest person to hold this
office.
• Huckabee is quoted by The Jewish Week as saying, "I
didn't get into politics because I thought government had a
better answer. I got into politics because I knew government
didn't have the real answers that the real answers lie in
accepting Jesus Christ into our lives."
• Apart from the eight years Huckabee spent as the
Governor he was extremely involved with the church and affairs of
religion.
• Huckabee started off his religious career as a staffer
for James Robison, a very well known evangelist.
• In the book that he wrote called "Character Makes a
Difference" he says The Ten Commandments are divided into two
sections--the vertical laws dealing with man's relationship with
God and the horizontal laws dealing with man's relationship with
others.
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