Originally Posted by dyna mo

more on Hill's religious beliefs via direct quotes:

"We need a new politics of meaning," she said at a Texas convention in 1993. "We have to summon up what we believe is morally and ethically and spiritually correct and do the best we can with God's guidance."

"The Church was a critical part of my growing up, and in preparing for this event, I almost couldn't even list all the ways it influenced me, and helped me develop as a person, not only on my own faith journey, but with a sense of obligations to others," she said at the 1996 United Methodist Convention.

Clinton wants to change the perception that the Democratic Party is hostile to religion.

"[It] has been viewed as a part that didn't understand the values and way of life of so many Americans," she said in 2008 at the CNN Compassion Forum. "It's important that we make clear that we believe people are people of faith because it is part of their whole being. It is what gives them meaning in life."

Clinton referred to religion both when she opposed and supported same-sex marriage.

"Marriage has historic, religious, and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time, and I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman," she said in 1996, according to God and Hillary Clinton by Paul Kengor.