Senate Candidate Vows to Carry Christian Values to Capitol

by Chad Groening
June 25, 2004

(AgapePress) - A successful black businessman who is seeking to become Georgia's next U.S. senator says he will never waffle on the pro-family issues. Former pizza magnate Herman Cain believes God had a hand on the founding of America, and he says people have no right to redefine what God has defined.

Cain is facing two incumbent Republican congressmen in the July 20 Republican Primary. The former president and CEO of Godfather's Pizza says his Christianity governs his political stances. So when issues such as abortion and so-called homosexual marriage come up, he notes, "They are not difficult questions for me to answer because of my biblical basis."

The Senate candidate says without hesitation, "I am pro-life from conception, and I believe that God defined marriage as between a man and a woman. And I believe God knew what he was doing -- end of story."

Another thing Cain believes in is America's Christian heritage. "I'm one of these people who feel very strongly that there is no ambiguity about the intent of our founding fathers that God would be a part of the foundation, morally, of this country," he says.

Cain says he will take his Christian values to the U.S. Senate if the people of Georgia send him to Washington this November. He insists that, just as people have no right to redefine the institution of marriage from the way God defined it, people have no right to redefine the moral foundation of the United States and "the vast majority of people agree with that particular position."

The senatorial candidate says he will never waffle on issues related to the family, traditional marriage, or the right of Americans to acknowledge their religious heritage, which is obvious from the nation's foundational documents and the Pledge of Allegiance in its present form. Cain says he also supports keeping the phrase "under God" in the pledge.