The new down to earth and friendlier Hillary campaign.
Via WaPo:
The congregants of Foundry United Methodist Church just north of downtown Washington got a taste Sunday of what’s to come if Hillary Rodham Clinton is the next president: Long lines, the Secret Service and metal detectors at the entrance of their place of worship.
Foundry Church celebrated its 200th anniversary Sunday with Hillary and Chelsea Clinton as its main speakers. The family regularly attended the church when Bill Clinton was president, and Chelsea Clinton was active in its youth programs when the family lived in the White House.
The line to attend the 10:15 a.m. service started forming at 7, with a mix of regular churchgoers trying to snag their normal seats and Clinton fans there to hear the Democratic presidential contender speak.
Clinton delivered a 20-minute speech focused on her family’s Methodist faith and her mother’s successes after hardship, making no explicit mention of the 2016 campaign. Bill Clinton — who was introduced as “Hillary’s husband” and “Chelsea’s dad” — was also in attendance and sat with his family in the same third-row pew they traditionally occupied while he was president.
“Because people believed in [my mom], she was able to believe in herself, and believe in me, and others whose lives she touched, like my husband and my daughter,” Clinton said. “And she was able to give us the great gift of believing in others.”
Clinton also invoked the words of the Apostle Paul and Romans 12 — scripture in the New Testament that was read aloud at the beginning of Sunday’s service.
“It takes a village, it takes a community, it takes a congregation to empower us to do our part,” Clinton said. “The Apostle Paul is pretty clear that we can’t just celebrate our gifts — we have to use them, especially in the service of others and in the service of a better, fairer and more peaceful world. We should be, in Paul’s words, generous and diligent and cheerful in our service. That’s how we honor God, who gave us these gifts in the first place.”[…]
Foundry Church identifies as a progressive parish and advocates for same-sex-marriage ceremonies to be performed there, displaying a large gay-pride display outside the building.
“There are still hard truths to face about race, gender and sexual orientation in America,” Clinton said.
Those in attendance said the appearance offered a more relatable side of Clinton, who is often criticized on the campaign trail as not being likeable enough.
“I thought her reflections on Roman 12 were inspiring,” said Laura Long, an undecided Democrat and student at Wesley Theological Seminary in the District, who attended the service with her husband. “It’s interesting that the Clintons are part of a community like everyone else. It makes them seem more human.”