Posted on 08/23/2015 9:10:21 AM PDT by VinL
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, says protecting the religious liberty of Americans has been his decades-long passion. The Texan senator believes "liberal intolerance" of the Bible is fundamentally wrong. Watch, 2 minute video.
And this is the fundamental reason I support him.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;Reading comprehension is important.
Congress has not made any laws regarding religion, nor has congress prohibited anyone's free exercise.
Ted Cruz, the brilliant constitutional lawyer should actually read the constitution before embarrassing himself again.
It cuts right to the heart of the sources of oppression both in practice and potential.
Its politically suicidal to say so but this is exactly why Barry Goldwater was 100% correct in opposing the version of the civil rights act that passed. The civil rights act should have explicitly excluded the private sector.
Not only are private businesses no longer able to refuse service against their religious objections, now they must serve people who demand that service than to insult their religious ideals.
It may not be exactly the same as Jewish concentration inmates forced to perform for nazis, but we are definitely heading in that direction.
Love to hear him speak.
I disagree, lewislynn. By prohibiting prayer in schools, by prohibiting religious expressions like nativity scenes & crosses in public places- & the plaques or statues containing the Ten Commandments (upon which *some*- not all, of our criminal law is based)…that is most definitely “prohibiting the free exercise thereof”.
Not one of those things interferes or infringes upon, in any way, with another person’s right to exercise their chosen faith.
Before this purge of Christianity from the schools & public places, there were no laws in place, but they were traditionally practiced by the majority of Americans just because they were. Then, Madeline Murray O’ Hare et al began suing to have these things to be prohibited- causing laws to be written.
I am a “traditional” Christian, not a dominionist or dispensationalist, but this is very definitely a violation of the First Amendment, imo. That this succeeded is a testament to the decay in our legislative & judicial branches.
But courts have misapplied this establishment clause and prohibited the free exercise of religion at federal, state, and local levels.
Cruz is the only one who understands the importance of this issue.
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