Why two religious Republican presidential candidates weren't invited to a major Christian event

Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz were excluded from the event.

Some were left puzzled as to why two Southern Baptist presidential candidates from the GOP were left out of a major Christian event; the reason was not as bad as some speculated. According to the official statement from the organizers of the event, the two candidates were opted out because of the result of the presidential polls.

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - Southern Baptists presidential candidates Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas, and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz were not included in the guest list for the Send North America conference.

The event, evangelical of context, will be held August 3 and 4 in Nashville, Tennessee and is sponsored by the groups affiliate organizations - the North American Mission Board and the International Mission Board. Other presidential candidates on the extended invitation list include, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker and Hillary Clinton, according to The Blaze.

But the invites were polished off based on the poll results. They invited those who were at least at 10 percent in polls starting May 1.

"When the North American Mission Board asked us to have a conversation with candidates, I wanted to have all the candidates. Unfortunately, there are roughly 144,000 candidates running this year. So we determined objective criteria for polling, as laid out in the press release and invited candidates from both parties who met that standard," said Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, in an interview with CBN News' David Brody.

Although it was said that both Clinton and Walker declined the invitation because of their schedules, the organizers decided not to extend the invitation to other contenders. Moore noted that some might have thought the decision was unfair, but that was the best they could do for the one-hour show and 13,000 full house audience.

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