Hillary Clinton will be participating in a Global Summit on HIV/AIDS and the Church, according to a report in Newsmax. Clinton was invited to speak by evangelical power-player Pastor Rick Warren. The event takes place at Warren’s Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California.
Warren is best known as the other of The Purpose Driven Life, and been a strong HIV Advocate for HIV/AIDS. Warren has often criticized the evangelical church, and Baptists, in particular for being "known for what we’re against rather than what we’re for.”
This is not the first time a Presidential Candidate has appeared at the Saddleback Church. Barack Obama appeared at the 2006 Summit on HIV/AIDS, where he delivered his most substantive speech on HIV/AIDS of this campaign.
Evangelicals were once considered the core of the Republican Party, but are now considered a more diverse group of voters. Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean recently addressed the National Baptist Convention, and the Democrats Faith in Action Program, created by Dean, has been reaching out to people of all faiths.
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