Editing Pat Boone (section)

=== Politics ===
Boone has been a close friend to many U.S. presidents, including [[Ronald Reagan]] and [[Jimmy Carter]].<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ra9ii3KTdA |title=Pat Boone Reflects on his Long Friendship with Ronald Reagan |date=2021-09-20 |last=Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute |access-date=2024-10-06 |via=YouTube}}</ref>

At a 1961 gathering at [[Pepperdine College]], Boone said, "I would rather see my four girls shot and die as little girls who have faith in God than leave them to die some years later as godless, faithless, soulless communists."<ref>{{cite web |title=Kristin Kobes Du Mez > Quotes |url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/20374247.Kristin_Kobes_Du_Mez?page=5 |website=[[Goodreads]] |postscript=,}} quoting from {{cite book |author=Kristin Kobes Du Mez |title=Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation |publisher=WW Norton |year=2020 |isbn=9781631495731 |authorlink=Kristin Kobes Du Mez}}</ref>

Boone supported [[Barry Goldwater]] in the [[1964 United States presidential election]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Critchlow |first1=Donald T. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QfHXAAAAQBAJ&q=pat%20boone |title=When Hollywood Was Right: How Movie Stars, Studio Moguls, and Big Business Remade American Politics |date=October 21, 2013 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781107650282}}</ref> [[File:Pat Boone by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|right|Boone at [[Conservative Political Action Conference|CPAC]] in February 2011]] In the 2007 Kentucky gubernatorial election, Boone campaigned unsuccessfully for incumbent [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Ernie Fletcher]] with a recorded automated telephone message stating that the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] candidate [[Steve Beshear]] would support "every homosexual cause". As part of the campaign, Boone asked, "Now do you want a governor who'd like Kentucky to be another San Francisco?"<ref>{{cite web |last=Kleefeld |first=Eric |date=November 4, 2007 |title=Kentucky GOP Pushing Anti-Gay Message in Final Days Of Gov Race |url=http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/11/kentucky_gop_pushing_antigay_message_in_final_days_of_gov_race.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071105172656/http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/11/kentucky_gop_pushing_antigay_message_in_final_days_of_gov_race.php |archive-date=November 5, 2007 |access-date=November 5, 2007 |work=TPM Election Central}}</ref> In 2009, during [[Barack Obama]]'s first term in office, Boone wrote an article comparing liberalism to cancer, likening it to "black filthy cells".<ref>{{cite web |date=June 26, 2014 |title=Pat Boone: 'Obama's Birth Certificate Will Be Proven As Fake By September' |url=https://uproxx.com/music/pat-boone-obamas-birth-certificate-will-be-proven-as-fake-by-september/ |access-date=January 22, 2019 |website=Uproxx.com}}</ref>  In December 2009, Boone endorsed conservative Republican John Wayne Tucker in [[Missouri's 3rd congressional district]] against incumbent [[Russ Carnahan]] in the 2010 midterm elections.<ref>{{cite web |date=December 15, 2009 |title=Pat Boone Endorses John Wayne Tucker for Congress |url=http://johnwaynetucker.com/congress/campaign_endorsements.html |access-date=January 26, 2011 |website=JohnWayneTucker.com}}</ref> In 2010, Boone endorsed Republican Clayton Trotter in the race for [[Texas's 20th congressional district]] with an ad campaign referencing his song "[[Speedy Gonzales (song)|Speedy Gonzales]]", about [[Speedy Gonzales|the Looney Tunes character]].<ref>{{cite journal |author=Greg Jefferson |date=October 28, 2010 |title=Trotter's campaign ad had to be an inside job |url=https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Trotter-s-campaign-ad-had-to-be-an-inside-job-735873.php |journal=San Antonio Express-News |access-date=June 25, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Kyle Mantyla |date=October 28, 2010 |title=Clayton Trotter: "The Anglo With The Hispanic Heart" |url=https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/clayton-trotter-the-anglo-with-the-hispanic-heart/ |access-date=June 25, 2021 |website=RightWingWatch}}</ref> Boone received a lifetime achievement award at the 38th annual Conservative Political Action Conference held in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |date=February 9, 2011 |title=Boone Honored By CPAC Lifetime Achievement Award |url=http://60plus.org/boone-honored-by-cpac-lifetime-achievement-award |access-date=May 4, 2012 |website=60plus.org |publisher=[[60 Plus Association]]}}</ref>

In 2016, Boone, with [[Mike Huckabee]] and executive producer Troy Duhon, all of whom were involved in the film ''[[God's Not Dead 2]]'', sent a letter to California Governor [[Jerry Brown]] in opposition to Senate Bill 1146,<ref>{{cite web |title=Bill Text – SB-1146 Discrimination: postsecondary education. |url=https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1146 |access-date=January 22, 2019 |website=Leginfo.legislature.ca.gov}}</ref> which "prohibits a person from being subjected to discrimination" at California colleges. Other than schools that train pastors and theology teachers, schools "might no longer be allowed to hire Christian-only staff, teach religious ideas in regular classes, require attendance at chapel services, or keep bathrooms and dormitories restricted to either males or females".<ref>{{cite web |last=Bond |first=Paul |date=June 30, 2016 |title=''God's Not Dead 2'' Filmmakers Wade into California Politics |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gods-not-dead-2-filmmakers-907838 |access-date=August 24, 2016 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]}}</ref>