In Canada, the faith of political leaders is no big deal. We know that both Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre were raised Catholic, Jagmeet Singh is Sikh and Elizabeth May is Anglican. But beyond that, there’s little interest in how often they go to religious services or what role faith plays in their political decisions.
Not so in the U.S., where the faith of politicians is a very big deal. Which prompts the question: Now that Kamala Harris is the presumptive Democratic Party candidate for president, what is her faith background?
Read more in my Free Press column about how Harris
combines Hinduism, Christianity and Judaism in her life and family—and how that
may represent the growing character of American religious life today.
Photo: Kamala Harris at First AME Church of Los Angeles, 2020. U.S. Senate photo.
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