From your article:
"Kasich has taken that as his basic text on the issue of Medicaid expansion and other aid programs. "Just read Matthew 25," he said on Fox News in January. "Did you feed the hungry? Did you clothe the naked? If we're doing things like that, to me that is conservatism."
"You know, Matthew 25 says that it's about how you treat the widowed, how you treat the poor, how you treat the hungry, how do you clothe those who have no clothes," Kasich said on CNN in February. "That is a conservative position to help them get on their feet so they then can assume their rightful place in our society."
So Jesus wants an out of control bureaucratic government to feed the poor? Isn't that what the welfare state Democrats have been doing for decades?
Gary Bauer got it right when he said this (from your article) :
"In a couple of places where he's irritated the economic wing of the movement, he has cited, probably not conventionally, a biblical defense, or cited Christian teachings as the explanation for why he expanded Medicaid," said Gary Bauer, president of the activist group American Values and another speaker at the Faith & Freedom event. "There are millions of people who fall into the category of religious conservatives. I hesitate to generalize too much, but having said that, generally speaking it's fairly well understood among these voters that
the biblical injunctions about helping the poor are seen as a mandate for the individual with their own resources, not talking points for big government."
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/d...n-off-religious-conservatives/article/2566734
I'm sticking with Ted Cruz.
