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Cruz courts Christians, saying religious liberty under attack
Washington Post ^ | November 14, 2015 | By Katie Zezima

Posted on 11/16/2015 5:54:26 PM PST by detective

Sen. Ted Cruz asserted Saturday that Christians are under assault, both by the government and in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris.

Cruz has been assiduously courting evangelical Christian voters, and held a religious liberty rally at Bob Jones University here the day after his main rival for that bloc, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, appeared at the school.

The Texas Republican spent more than an hour describing how he believes people of faith and their ideals are under siege — by the media, Democrats, the government and "radical Islamic terrorism" that is "a malevolent force that right now, as we speak, is persecuting Christians" as well as Jews and Muslims, he said during a prayer.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016issues; christianvote; cruz
Senator Cruz is looking better and better.
1 posted on 11/16/2015 5:54:26 PM PST by detective
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Evangelicals need to come out to vote...even Trump needs them to win.


2 posted on 11/16/2015 5:57:47 PM PST by gwgn02
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Evangelicals need to come out to vote...

They will, if you give them someone to vote *for*... Cruz can do that.

3 posted on 11/16/2015 6:03:07 PM PST by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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To: detective

obama considers little sisters of the poor to be more dangerous than isis.


4 posted on 11/16/2015 6:15:07 PM PST by yongin (I'd rather be on god's side than the right side of man's history)
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I agree - he is, and his courage to speak the truth is encouraging.


5 posted on 11/16/2015 6:20:54 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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