Republican senator Rand Paul, who currently represents Kentucky and is a prospective presidential candidate for the upcoming 2016 elections, told religious leaders during a private prayer breakfast last month that the First Amendment does not say religion has to be kept out of governance.
“The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn’t say keep religion out of government,” Paul said. “So, you do have a role and a place here.”
He went on to say since the Senate opens each day with an invocation, it is only obvious how there is place for prayer in governance.
“Religion is part of our daily life and a part of our government,” Paul said. “It always has been.”
Paul had in his audience about 50 preachers who had gathered at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington to discuss the apparent moral crisis that they believe is taking over American society rampantly. Paul urged his listeners to recruit fellow Americans, as it was wrong to expect Washington alone to solve the problem.
“The moral crisis we have in our country — there is a role for us trying to figure out things like marriage,” he said. “There’s also a moral crisis that allows people to think that there would be some sort of other marriage … really there’s a role outside and inside government, but I think the exhortation to try to change peoples’ thoughts also has to come from the countryside, from everywhere outside of Washington.”
He also said Washington DC is the most disconnected city on the planet, while emphasizing how America desperately needs a Great Awakening that would have thousands of believers seeking and calling for reform in unison.
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