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Faith Takes Centerstage at Family Leadership Summit as Rubio Reads From the Bible

Ten Republican presidential candidates spoke about their faith and how they care for issues such as marriage, religious freedom and defeating Islamist terrorism as they addressed a big annual gathering of evangelical voters at the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa Saturday.

The candidates spoke to the crowd and faced questions from the moderator, Frank Luntz, a political consultant and Fox News contributor, and the audience, with a Bible placed on the table next to them.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the first presidential candidate to address the annual event, picked up the Bible and read from Luke 12:48: “… From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.”

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Cruz criticized the nuclear deal with Iran. “If this deal goes through, billions of dollars will flow into Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. Those billions of dollars will go to Hezbollah, to Hamas, to the Houthis. If this deal goes through, and this is not an exaggeration, the Obama administration will become, literally, the world’s leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism. American dollars will fund jihadist seeking to murder Americans, Israelis and Europeans,” he said.

Like, literally.