The Tuesday night before this past Thanksgiving, at a dinner in a small ballroom at the Holiday Inn at the airport in Des Moines, one of the 50 or so pastors who had come to listen to Marco Rubio stood up to ask him a question. Kenney Linhart, the broad-built boss of a nearby church called The Kathedral, had read about the complicated religious history of the Florida senator and Republican presidential hopeful. He needed a straight answer.
“You’re in a room full of Christians,” Linhart said, wrapping his hand around the hand of the man holding the microphone, “so you mentioned God, and you mentioned the king of kings, but tell us about your experience with the Lord Jesus Christ, using that name.”
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