Doherty to speak at faith-based conservative conference

By R.L. Bynum

Matt Doherty will speak at North Carolina’s largest faith-based, conservative conference this fall.

Doherty, who played for UNC’s 1982 national championship team and coached the Tar Heels from 2000 to 2003, will be part of the N.C. Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Salt and Light Conference in Marion at the Nebo Crossing Church on Sept. 22–23.

“I’m excited to announce that I am a featured speaker at the N.C. Faith and Freedom Salt & Light Conference,” Doherty posted on Twitter and LinkedIn Tuesday.

Doherty has posted on Twitter about being a Republican voter and why he votes that way.

One of the other featured speakers is North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, a Republican candidate for governor.

Several other national conservative leaders will speak at the conference, including former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (who served as a Democrat but left the party in October), Fox News host and commentator Jeanine Pirro, civil rights attorney and conservative commentator Leo Terrell, conservative political consultant and lobbyist Ralph Reed, vaccine skeptic Dr. Robert Malone and former N.C. State lineman John Amanchukwu, a youth minister who has called critical race theory and abortion “twin evils.”

Former UNC basketball player Leah Church, noted for her trick-shot videos and record 3-pointers hit in a minute, was a speaker at the 2022 conference. Church, who left Carolina after three seasons, played at Union University in Jackson, Tenn., as a graduate student last season.