The Clintons Walked Out on God Because Their Church Defended the Unborn

Chelsea Clinton Left Baptist Church Over Abortion Talks in Sunday School at Age 6

Chelsea Clinton is facing renewed backlash after her decade old claim about leaving the Baptist church resurfaced on social media, garnering over 1 million views on X.

The controversy stems from a 2016 fundraiser for her mother Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, where Chelsea reportedly stated that she left the Baptist church before her father Bill Clinton did because, as she put it, she "didn't know why they were talking to me about abortion when I was 6 in Sunday school."

Chelsea explained that she switched to Methodism, her mother's denomination, while emphasizing her family's authenticity of faith.

"I left the Baptist church before my dad did, because I didn't know why they were talking to me about abortion when I was 6 in Sunday school." Chelsea Clinton, via Page Six

The story originally made waves in 2016 when LifeNews covered it. Conservative commentators questioned how a young child would possess such knowledge, with many speculating that her parents had indoctrinated her into holding pro abortion positions from an early age.

Chelsea Clinton's Baptist Church Exit and the Clinton Family's Complicated Faith History

Fact checker Snopes labeled the original LifeNews headline misleading in 2016, clarifying that Chelsea objected to the topic of abortion being discussed with 6 year olds, not that she held personal abortion convictions at that age.

However, in 2018, Chelsea described herself as "deeply religious" while claiming that abortion bans would be "un Christian," a statement that further inflamed critics.

Her father Bill Clinton drifted from the Southern Baptist Convention during his presidency amid doctrinal disputes. In 1996, SBC leaders publicly rebuked Clinton for suggesting that God guided his decision to veto a partial birth abortion ban.

The Crusader's Opinion

Let's be honest about what happened here. A 6 year old didn't walk out of Sunday school over a theological disagreement. A politically connected family found it inconvenient that their church actually taught Biblical truth about the sanctity of life. The Clintons didn't leave the Baptist church because of how abortion was discussed. They left because it was discussed at all. When a family abandons a denomination that defends the unborn and then spends decades championing the very thing that church stood against, that tells you everything you need to know about where their loyalties truly lie.

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