Marco Rubio Mormon Church Membership Claim Fact Checked

HomeOffice of the SpokespersonPress Releases…Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Board of Peace Charter Signing Ceremony

SECRETARY RUBIO: Okay. No, did – were you the one that – because somebody asked me a question yesterday – did we go in because of Israel. And I said – you asked me that, you, that follow up. And I said no. I told you this had to happen anyway.

Donald Trump’s secretary of state and national security adviser has taken a back seat during the Iran war crisis

Rubio has three siblings: older brother Mario, older sister Barbara (married to Orlando Cicilia), and younger sister Veronica (formerly married to entertainer Carlos Ponce). From ages 8 to 11 he and his family attended the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints while living in Las Vegas.

Senator Kyrsten Sinema (I) of Arizona grew up in the LDS Church, but left after graduating from Brigham Young University. Senator Marco Rubio (R) of Florida was baptized as a child while living in Nevada but left the church after his family moved back to Florida.

Rubio, the son of immigrant Cubans, was baptized a Catholic, but his mother’s spiritual seeking, and a move to Nevada, led the family to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a religion that Rubio embraced as a child. The family’s affiliation with Mormonism was short-lived, however, ...

But when the Rubio family moved ... Catholic Church, as well as to the non-denominational Baptist church he attends today with his family. Not so for his Mormonism....

During the family's time in Las Vegas, Rubio, his mother, and his sister joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1979, seeking a moral structure and community of stable families.[10] Rubio later wrote that he "immersed myself ...

Like many people, Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s faith journey can’t be laid out in a straight line, but his comments released Easter weekend leave little doubt of the former Florida senator’s Christian convictions.