Posted on 03/25/2016 12:23:04 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Despite his hundreds of rallies, his many interviews and his hyperactive Twitter feed, it’s still really hard to tell the difference between what Donald Trump actually believes, what he says to whip up his crowds, and what he says merely because it popped into his head one afternoon.
Not so with Senator Ted Cruz, the arch-right Texan who is one of Mr. Trump’s two remaining Republican opponents. Americans can be sure he believes what he says, and that is pretty terrifying. His calls for carpet bombing Muslims to punish the Islamic State, and more recently for putting Muslim neighborhoods under ongoing police surveillance, are good examples. His view of religion is another.
Mr. Trump sort of talks the Republican talk on “religious liberty,” which is how the right wing expresses its desire to promote conservative evangelical Protestantism over all other religions. But it’s hard to be sure he truly believes it, since he wasn’t exactly an outspoken Christian until he started running for president.
Mr. Cruz is a hard-core member of the group of Americans whose politics are driven primarily, or even entirely, by their personal religious beliefs. They think these beliefs should be the law of the land, although they always take care to act as though they are simply trying to honor the Constitution’s mandate to protect religious freedom.
And so Mr. Cruz created a “Religious Liberty Advisory Council” to offer suggestions of things he can do as president to protect religious freedom — in other words, to make sure that evangelical Christianity is embedded in government and the law, and that gay Americans and other godless non-believers are dealt with properly.
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Islam is a murder cult disguised as a religion.
I just read the excerpt.. thank goodness that twit was not around to influence “the Greatest Generation.”
“religious liberty,” which is how the right wing expresses its desire to promote conservative evangelical Protestantism over all other religions.
The first amendment’s freedom of religion & speech keep government from restricting the promotion of any religion you like. There’s nothing left out that requires changing to a new name.
So there must be more to it. But what?
Cruz did not say “carpet bomb Muslims”, he said “Carpet Bomb ISIS”. Typical NYT distortion.
And yet the NYT is fine with CAIR.
In days gone by the term “liberal” meant someone committed to something higher than egoistic-self, which is what it means now. Today’s liberals are generally quite narcissistic, hedonistic, and full of themselves. They exist in an imaginary dream-world because they hate the real world and how it must actually work, meaning for instance that they want to believe in magical money trees, gender fluidity, and that their ‘creator’ is a mystical energy variously known as evolution, the Force, natural selection, etc. In this light Ted Cruz represents a terrifying ride back into reality and the way things must work.
[[Ted Cruz’s Terrifying Approach to ‘Religious Liberty’ (NYT alert)]]
The NYT’s idiotic chicken little alarmism- Gee, like that’s not a daily or even hourly event with this scandal rag
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