The governor’s religious rhetoric and hard-charging policies are at the center of his outreach to white evangelicals - an important voting bloc in the early GOP nominating contests.
grew up Catholic. He attended Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School in Dunedin, Florida, and his political memoir says he was expected at church every Sunday. His mother counts a nun and a priest among her siblings.
“He deals in vague platitudes about faith … and he very much downplays his Catholicism,” said Cary McMullen, the former religion editor of The Ledger in Lakeland, Florida.
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