Posted on 10/16/2015 7:11:49 AM PDT by Isara
Ted Cruz is planning a major rally around religious liberty in November at Bob Jones University in South Carolina, the latest in his continued push to win over evangelical voters who comprise a key voting bloc in the Republican primaries.
The rally, to be held on November 14, is modeled after a similar one that Cruz held in August in Iowa. Cruz told a Des Moines crowd of more than 2,500 then that, “There is a war on faith in America today.”
Cruz has made outreach to conservative Christians central to his candidacy. He launched his campaign in March at Liberty University in Virginia, the world’s largest Christian university. He traveled to Kentucky to support clerk Kim Davis after she was arrested for refusal to issue gay marriage licenses. And he talks repeatedly about the threats against religious freedom on the campaign trail.
Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, is expected to join Cruz at the Bob Jones University rally, along with twin brothers Jason and David Benham, whose reality TV show on HGTV was cancelled after making comments about a gay “agenda.”
Sounds like a good idea to me…………...
I hope he opens with a quote that the media can’t ignore; one the unites black and whites, talks over the media to the people. My point is to blunt the media’s immediate labeling of him as a racist because of Bob Jones’ previous biblical misinterpretation of the bible saying blacks and whites shouldn’t mix/marry.
Go Cruz!
careful: religious liberty for christians also means religious liberty for muslims. and guess which one will get better received by the elites?
Well what to say? He’s at his home court.
I’d like to see if he can draw a crowd in say, his own alma mater.... Harvard or Princeton.
And there goes the “conservative” Catholic vote for Cruz!
That might be interesting—just to see if the “elites” in these “elite”institutions would come out for him.
I don't know, Carson didn't start climbing in the polls until he came out against Muslims so it obviously won't hurt in the primaries.
In before the we don’t need another ‘Jimmy Carter’ Cruz haters.
Excellent. Good strategy too.
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