Kaine, Trump Address Faithful of Different Stripes
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine, recounting his work as a missionary and his role as a tenor in his Catholic church choir, cheered the efforts of a historically black Baptist denomination to get out the vote this election season.
“Voting is a sacred act, whether you are religious or not,” the Virginia senator told about a thousand people gathered at the annual meeting of the Progressive National Baptist Convention on Thursday (Aug. 11) in New Orleans.
In Orlando, Fla., Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump spoke to a gathering of pastors sponsored by the American Renewal Project, a conservative evangelical group founded by the anti-gay preacher David Lane, who ahead of the meeting warned that “homosexual totalitarianism is out of the closet, the militants are trying herd Christians there.”
“If you could spread the word to everybody that you know, to all of the other...