Florida Senator Marco Rubio A US Senator stopped short of specific legislative proposals during a Christian conference, but spoke openly of religious faith as he offered support for beleaguered Christian communities under threat from ISIS in the Middle East.
Senator Marco Rubio said: “I’m a deep believer that our foreign policy should be infused with our most deeply held values. Not to impose it on other people but to ensure that in everything we do, we protect the rights of others to also fulfil their God-given rights.”
Rubio spoke on the last day of the Archon International Conference on Religious Freedom in Washington, sponsored by the Orthodox Order of St Andrew, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
The senator’s own faith journey has taken him from the Catholicism of his early childhood to Mormonism, then to a Baptist megachurch, and back to the Catholic Faith again.
When he ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, he was often criticised, by both Catholic media and conservative evangelicals, for appearing to be less than authentic about the matter, but he’s long been comfortable mingling the language of Christianity with politics.