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Cruz: Obama has 'massive hostility' to religious liberty
WND ^
| August 2, 2015
| GARTH KANT
Posted on 08/02/2015 5:46:17 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
'Many Republican candidates just ran for the hills'
(Editor’s note: This is part three of a four-part interview with Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz. Read Part one: Cruz fires back at Romney: ‘This is why we keep losing’ and part two: Cruz: Abortion videos are game-changers)
WASHINGTON Does U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, fear Christians in America will be prosecuted for practicing their beliefs?
The GOP presidential candidate responded so strongly, it was though merely saying “yes” would be a superfluous understatement.
“There is no doubt that one of the greatest threats we are seeing is the assault on religious liberty,” Cruz told WND.
By whom?
“The Obama administration has demonstrated a massive hostility to religious liberty.”
What would be an example?
“At the recent gay-marriage oral arguments, Justice Alito asked the Obama solicitor general whether, if they prevailed, the Obama IRS would then go after Christian colleges, universities and schools that follow a biblical teaching on marriage,” said Cruz.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas
“And the Obama Justice Department responded, yes, that was a very real possibility.”
Cruz indicated the problem wasn’t just the threat to religious liberties posed by the Obama administration, it was also its enabler in an all-too-compliant GOP, eager to avoid a fight.
“One of the saddest things,” intoned Cruz, “in the wake of that activist, illegitimate decision purporting to strike down the marriage laws of all 50 states was just how many Republicans, including how many Republican candidates for president, ran for the hills.”
“They said, in essence, ‘It’s settled, it’s the law of the land, surrender, accept it, move on.’ Those are, word-for-word, the talking points of President Obama.”
This man who would be president, this son of a pastor, was having none of it.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cruz; election2016; tedcruz; texas
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To: SoConPubbie; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; MountainDad; aposiopetic; ...
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posted on
08/02/2015 5:46:53 PM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: SoConPubbie
Hostility is an understatement.
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posted on
08/02/2015 5:48:39 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
To: SoConPubbie
Religious liberty = TJE CONSTITUTION and American freedom.
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posted on
08/02/2015 5:48:48 PM PDT
by
EagleUSA
(Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
To: SoConPubbie
But he attended Wright’s communist-concocted “church” for 20+ years.
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posted on
08/02/2015 5:49:36 PM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: SoConPubbie
Yeah, the Soviet Union used to be a “settled” country.
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posted on
08/02/2015 5:50:37 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
To: SoConPubbie
There is only one candidate speaking vigorously for religious liberty- that is Ted Cruz.
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posted on
08/02/2015 5:58:08 PM PDT
by
Moorings
To: SoConPubbie
Meanwhile, Jebster is talking with Telemundo about amnesty.
Cruz is the guy.
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posted on
08/02/2015 6:02:28 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: SoConPubbie
Obama has ‘massive hostility’ to religious liberty”
Not only is religious liberty threatened, there is an also IRS issue here. Obama’s IRS has already gotten into hot water recently for targeting tea party groups. His using the IRS to go after religious groups constitutes a blatant politicization of the IRS. Good reason to get rid of the IRS.
To: haroldeveryman
Obie From Nairobi is a MOOSELIM sympathizer if not a dyed in the wool Mooselim
of course he has tremendous hostility to religious liberty.
Thats the name of the game for Islime
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posted on
08/02/2015 8:00:19 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
08/02/2015 8:04:59 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: SoConPubbie
First time Cruz was wrong on anything. Obama is only hostile to Christian religious liberty. Muzlims must be accorded every ability to practice their abhorrent beliefs.
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posted on
08/02/2015 10:51:32 PM PDT
by
Defiant
(I will vote for the candidate that the GOPe and media hate the most.)
To: cripplecreek
The Nephelium has always hated mankind.
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posted on
08/03/2015 4:49:43 AM PDT
by
American Constitutionalist
(Truth is a priceless commodity worth more it's weight than Gold, GOP plays with fools gold)
To: SoConPubbie
More accurately stated, war on Christianity.
All the other religions are not effected.
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posted on
08/03/2015 4:51:42 AM PDT
by
American Constitutionalist
(Truth is a priceless commodity worth more it's weight than Gold, GOP plays with fools gold)
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