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Ted Cruz: Senate Democrats to "Repeal the First Amendment" This Year

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The Ghost of a Flea5/23/2014 8:39:58 pm PDT

re: #20 The Ghost of a Flea

Ted Cruz Warns Gay Marriage Will Lead to Hate Speech Laws, America on Brink of Collapse

Ahem.

If people aren’t following the link, let me point this out. The context here is a meeting with like minded pastors, and he’s claimly their freedom of speech is being challenged, which doesn’t even make sense w/r/t Citizens United.

In other words, the amendment would allow Congress and state governments to set limits on the amount that corporations and wealthy individuals can spend to support and oppose candidates. So, unless a pastor also runs a super PAC, it would not affect his life all that much, much less “muzzle” him. But Cruz, employing the Religious Right’s persecution rhetoric, claims that “41 Democrats have signed on to repealing the First Amendment” because “they don’t like it when the citizenry in their community has the temerity to criticize what they’ve done” and “they don’t like it when pastors in their community stand up and speak the truth.”

This is just a continuation of the theme of Christian persecution being used to justify more and more extreme expressions of Christian nationalism which is built around stripping 1st Amendment protections from everybody but their cadre.

So the whole thing is a massive exercise is The Big Lie.