5 Faith Facts About Scott Walker: Son Of A Preacher Man

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He left a church that was starting to welcome gays and lean leftward.

Antonia Blumberg
Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post

Posted: 07/13/2015


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Posted: 07/13/2015

(RNS) Scott Walker, best known for picking a fight with Wisconsin’s unions that led to protesters’ occupation of the state Capitol, credits prayer and his church for delivering him and his family through trying times

The only governor in American history to survive a recall election, the Harley-riding Republican who declared himself a candidate for president Monday (July 13) has recently ramped up talk of his evangelical beliefs. Raised in a church parsonage, Walker scores high on Christian credibility with conservative voters who turn out so reliably in Republican primaries. Here are five faith facts about the Badger State’s two-term governor.

1. He’s a P.K.

A “pastor’s kid.” Scott Walker’s father is the Rev. Llewellyn Walker, who moved the family from Colorado Sprins to Plainfield, Iowa, for an assistant pastor’s job at the town’s First Baptist Church when the governor was a toddler. The governor’s mother, Patricia Walker, ran the Sunday school.

Llewellyn Walker, ordained in the American Baptist Churches USA — considered more moderate on social issues and theology than the larger Southern Baptist denomination — later led the First Baptist Church in Delavan, Wis. The governor preached sermons there as a teenager when his father was too ill to take the pulpit, according to The New York Times.

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