Rodriguez Says He Must Approve Trump Video for Latino Evangelical Conference

Heather Sells
05-18-2016

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The leader of the nation's largest Latino evangelical organization is warning that he may decline to use a videotaped message from Donald Trump at the annual conference of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC) this week.

NHCLC President Rev. Samuel Rodriguez told the Washington Post that he will only air the video if he thinks it's respectful to Latinos and the country's immigrants.  "I will personally get the video and scrutinize it, of course," said Rodriguez.  

The Post reports that Trump, the presumed GOP presidential nominee, is sending a videotaped message to be played at the NHCLC conference May 20-21 in Anaheim, California.

Just three weeks ago, Rodriguez told CBN News that Trump is not a racist but said that his rhetoric on immigration has been counter-productive.  

Rodriguez told the Post that he has invited the Democratic candidates for president, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, to the NHCLC conference but has not heard back.  

In 2015, GOP candidates Jeb Bush and Mike Huckabee addressed the NHCLC conference in Houston.

 

 

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Heather
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Heather Sells covers wide-ranging stories for CBN News that include religious liberty, ministry trends, immigration, and education. She’s known for telling personal stories that capture the issues of the day, from the border sheriff who rescues migrants in the desert to the parents struggling with a child that identifies as transgender. In the last year, she has reported on immigration at the Texas border, from Washington, D.C., in advance of the Dobbs abortion case, at crisis pregnancy centers in Massachusetts, and on sexual abuse reform at the annual Southern Baptist meeting in Anaheim
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