Cruz Doesn’t Like That American Is A Secular Country
Someone should tell these religious zealous how and why this country was founded.
At an Iowa campaign stop with influential Religious Right activist James Dobson yesterday, Sen. Ted Cruz warned that people of faith have consented to “allow nonbelievers to elect our leaders,” and now a “secular agenda” bent on doing away with the Ten Commandments and stifling religious liberty is on the rise.
Cruz repeated to the audience in Winterset, Iowa, his insistence that an atheist would be unfit to be president , saying, “If you don’t begin every day on your knees asking God for His wisdom and support, I don’t believe you’re fit to do this job.”
Copyright 2016 Liberaland
36 responses to Cruz Doesn’t Like That American Is A Secular Country
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
tracey marie January 6th, 2016 at 14:32
Magical and invisible god belief is not allowed in our government to make our laws.
StoneyCurtisll January 6th, 2016 at 15:52
High Five~!
tracey marie January 6th, 2016 at 17:27
:):):)
TiredOldGuy January 6th, 2016 at 16:52
Put him in charge and the 10 commandments would replace the Constitution.
Budda January 6th, 2016 at 15:02
Well, if you take advice from an imaginary sky daddy maybe you aren’t fit to lead anything other than your cult.
rg9rts January 6th, 2016 at 15:23
What a GD Moron
Larry Schmitt January 6th, 2016 at 15:24
The only ones trying to restrict religious liberty are people like him: Christians. What they don’t understand is that religious liberty includes the liberty to follow some religion besides Christianity, or no religion at all. I heard those words in this story on NPR this morning, and it scared the hell out of me. We can’t afford to allow a nut like him in the White House. It would be no different than having an Ayatollah. We’d have prayer breakfasts, prayer lunches, prayer snacks and prayer dinners every day. And prayer brunches on Sunday. Get out there and vote, people. We don’t want Ya’ll Qaeda running this country.
TiredOldGuy January 6th, 2016 at 16:50
In my opinion he is one of (if not THE) most dangerous men in the world. Santorum and Huck would never pull enough votes to worry me, but Cruz knows how to manipulate all the different factions. Any logical person can see through him but about half the population has already proven that logic is not their strong suit. And if it ever came down to Trump or Cruz, the RNC would hold their noses and go with Cruz.
Carla Akins January 6th, 2016 at 17:41
Agreed. I think he simply uses religion to an end. I think he’s just stayed under the radar to prevent from committing some Ben Carson-like faux pas and he’s just getting started.
bpollen January 6th, 2016 at 20:43
All the false piety of a Jimmy Swaggart, and all the personality of blow flies.
StoneyCurtisll January 6th, 2016 at 15:50
Maybe Ted Cruz should be running for president of some other non-secular nation…
Like Iran or Israel..
StoneyCurtisll January 6th, 2016 at 15:54
His voice alone, not even his crazy ideas is enough to make me not vote for this idiot
MyDogsAreSmarterThanYou January 7th, 2016 at 09:42
Whenever I hear him talk it sounds like he’s giving a sermon.
arc99 January 6th, 2016 at 16:32
“”If you don’t begin every day on your knees asking God for His wisdom and support, I don’t believe you’re fit to do this job.”””
Funny, but try as I might, I cannot find those words anywhere in Article 2 or Article 6 of the Constitution. What am I doing wrong? Surely these “strict constructionists” would never advocate any policy not explicitly supported in the Constitution.
Article 2
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.
Article 6
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
CandideThirtythree January 6th, 2016 at 17:07
That constitution that they are always spewing about but have never read?
bpollen January 6th, 2016 at 20:39
Their version has
deletionsedits with notes in the margins…CandideThirtythree January 7th, 2016 at 07:13
So true, so true… if it weren’t for revisionist history, they would know no history at all.
Richard Banville January 6th, 2016 at 16:54
“If you don’t begin every day on your knees asking God for His wisdom and support, I don’t believe you’re fit to do this job.”
How many Presidents have started their day this way? I know of none.
Abraham Lincoln was a thoughtful, prayerful Christian, but there is no record of him starting his day on his knees.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was stricken with polio. You can be damn sure he didn’t get on his knees every morning.
Those two are almost universally considered to be among the best Presidents in the history of the United States. They were more fit to do the job than a creepy weirdo like Ted Cruz will ever be.
Dammitjim January 6th, 2016 at 21:53
Well there was Nixon. He worked out well!
Dwendt44 January 7th, 2016 at 00:56
Lincoln was not a christian. Our first five presidents were not christians either.
Lincoln may have been an Agnostic and our first five presidents were Deists, if that.
Richard Banville January 7th, 2016 at 15:10
It has always been my impression from his speeches that Lincoln was actually quite a firm Christian, probably one of the best Christians ever to occupy the office.
He certainly would have nothing to do with the phony “Christians” who infest the Republican party today.
fahvel January 7th, 2016 at 02:58
oh yeah??? all dem prezidints who dint pray are why the world is the way iot is tooday. :-)
CandideThirtythree January 6th, 2016 at 17:04
And this is why that poll this morning showed that over 70% of respondents had no religion.. monsters like Cruz are running people away from religion at record pace. That is not a bad thing.
TiredOldGuy January 6th, 2016 at 17:52
Now, if only those people would run to the polling places later this year.
CandideThirtythree January 6th, 2016 at 18:43
I know right?
pinballsdoll January 6th, 2016 at 17:11
He obviously doesn’t understand the constitution, and that makes him unfit for the job
amersham46 January 6th, 2016 at 18:55
Come November Ted is going to be very disappointed
Angelo_Frank January 6th, 2016 at 19:07
He has been anointed by his father, pastor Raphael Cruz, as King of the new theocracy that will replace the United States of America. That’s the goal of the adherents of Christian Dominionism who will govern this country under their strict biblical interpretation.
labman57 January 6th, 2016 at 21:18
Cruz, Carson, Huckabee, and Santorum are all proud theocrats who desperately want to infuse their own religious mores into every aspect of American society.
jybarz January 6th, 2016 at 21:27
He’s supposed to be a smart lawyer, but can’t really see why or how.
Dammitjim January 6th, 2016 at 21:52
Oh he can eff right of with that. We got enough Y’allQueda as it is. #nochristiansharialaw
fahvel January 7th, 2016 at 02:57
what is happening with the IQ world? folks say crooze is a really high IQ dude, the other day there were mensa folks yammering about brain power and rumpy trump never fails to let you know how smart he is. Does this suggest that only dopes tell everyone how smart they are? – don’t recall a Hawking or an Einsteiin ever entering a room with a iq tag reading 220 .. aint smart the quiet way?
Gina Bousquet January 7th, 2016 at 07:15
Ignores the Constitution. Not fit for the job.
David William Phillips January 7th, 2016 at 08:31
Maybe if Cruz was an American instead of a Canadian he would have taken some US history and US government classes in high school.
William January 7th, 2016 at 09:07
A Canadian wanders in here shuts down our government, costs us 24 billion, then has the audacity to criticize our constitution.
Deport NOW!
MyDogsAreSmarterThanYou January 7th, 2016 at 09:43
Take note: If you are not a Christian, and most like if you’re not Cruz’s particular brand of Christian, Ted Cruz thinks you are a second-rate citizen. He is a religious bigot of the first order.