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Here’s what we know about Marco Rubio’s faith of many colors
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/04/13/heres-what-we-know-about-marco-rubios-faith-of-many-colors/By Sarah Pulliam Bailey April 13 at 2:28 PM
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) speaks at the National Rifle Association convention Friday, April 10, 2015, in Nashville. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
Marco Rubio, who is expected to throw his hat into the presidential race Monday, has also drawn attention for his brief time in Mormonism, his baptism into the Roman Catholic Church and his ties to an evangelical church.
As a bartender, Rubio’s father struggled to follow the Mormon Church’s teachings prohibiting alcohol, tobacco and caffeine, Rubio wrote in his memoir, “An American Son.”
“I immersed myself in LDS theology,” Rubio wrote. “I studied church literature and other sources of information to learn all I could about the church’s teachings.”
By the time he was in sixth grade, his family had left the Mormon Church for Catholicism, and he had his First Communion on Christmas Day 1984.
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