TED CRUZ SPEECH - IOWA FAITH AND FREEDOM SUMMIT

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From 1999 to 2003 Ted Cruz served as the director the office of policy planning
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at the Federal Trade Commission
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and was an associate deputy attorney general United States Department of
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Justice
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he served as Solicitor General of Texas
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2003-2008 the longest-serving Solicitor General
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in Texas history unlike like some others
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who have never run a lemonade stand he's done stuff
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he's a champion for religious liberty and the Constitution
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he stood for our faith and freedoms again and again
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we're pleased to have with us here today
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senator Ted crew the
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the
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god bless the great state a vial
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so now is is this the ready for Hillary gathering
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by well
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you know we did have good news which is ready for Hillary
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made their very first higher the director of the mail secured
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in
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so it's good to know that Lois Lerner has a job the
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it is great to be back with so many friends here and i wanna thank you for
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coming out
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you know I understand that that up the air conditioning went out i guess its
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cuz you have had so many politicians here with so much hot air
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it was too much for the facility so so I apologize for contributing to that
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that that ailment I what a tremendous
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array of candidates we have on the republican side
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the
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I don't know about you but I am inspired we have governors we have senators we
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have leaders who are standing and ready to fight
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the
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on the other side that hillary clinton and the clerk at Chipotle a
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and it's been a long evening
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it's been wonderful
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I wanna come deal with a word of hope
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and encouragement every one of us understand this is a time of great
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challenge
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we look at our country people are hurting millions are hurting
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our constitutional rights are under assault from washington
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we look up brought the Hillary
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clinton Barack Obama foreign policy
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a bleeding from behind
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is a manifest disaster and yet the encouragement I want to give you
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is people are waking up
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we're seeing an awakening
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across the state of Iowa and I crossed
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this great ish were saying something very similar to what happened in 1979
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and 1980
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the reagan revolution we are seeing that again is millions of men and women are
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rising the
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the
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i wanna talk tonight about an issue that is near and dear
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all of us and that is religious liberty and on the past month
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we have seen religious liberty under assault
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at an unprecedented level out tell you I've been blessed
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to have spent the past couple of decades
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fighting to defend religious liberty before I was in the senate I was the
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solicitor general a Texas
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the chief lawyer for the state in from the United States Supreme Court
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when I was there I was proud to defend
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the Texas Ten Commandments monument that was erected in 1961
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and then an atheist
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a homeless man came and filed litigation seeking to tear down that monument
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from the state capital we took that case to the United States Supreme Court
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defending the Ten Commandments and we won 5-4
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the
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we all remember won a federal court of appeals in california
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likewise struck down the pledge allegiance
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because it includes the words one nation under God Texas took the lead bringing
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together
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all 50 states we went to the US Supreme Court
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and we want unanimous the
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and then when I was in private practice I was honored to represent pro bono free
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of charge
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over three million veterans defending the Mojave Desert Veterans Memorial
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a lone white Latin cross
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that was erected over seventy years ago honor the men and women who gave their
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lives more what
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the ACLU sued seeking to tear down that Mon
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they argued that you could not
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gaze on the image of a cross on federal land
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and the federal district court agreed with them the Federal Court of Appeals
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agreed with them and ordered that that veterans memorial be torn down
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during the litigation on court order they built
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a plywood box to cover up the monument
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because you know they were right about something the image of a cross has power
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the
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well I was proud to represent over three million veterans we went to the United
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States Supreme Court defending that monument
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and we won 5-4 up holding that my
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the
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in recent weeks we've seen religious liberty
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come under assault in indiana
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and arkansas as those states
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acted to protect religious liberty and the response
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from the modern Democratic Party the response from the mainstream media
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although I repeat myself
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the
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what is hysteria you know it wasn't too long ago
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when religious liberty was an area bipartisan agreement
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they want too long ago two decades ago
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Congress passed the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act
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past the United States Senate 97
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23 enjoy the support of such
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famed right-wingers as Ted Kennedy by
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Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer
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it was signed into law by Bill Clinton a Democrat
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the laws that in the an arkansas
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past were substantively identical to the federal Religious Freedom Restoration
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Act
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had a what a sad statement
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that today's modern Democratic Party has become sole radicalized
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in there devotion to mandatory gay marriage in all 50 states
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that there is no longer any room
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for religious liberty there is no longer any room for defending what is the very
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first Liberty
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protected in the first amendment to the bill a bright serve our Constitution we
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need to remember who we are
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america is a nation we were founded by men and women
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fleeing religious persecution and we came to seek out a new land what every
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man and woman could
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seek out and worship the Lord God Almighty with all of our hearts
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minds and souls free of government getting in the way
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the
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the
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you know last year following the Supreme Court's
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Hobby Lobby decision a tremendous victory for religious liberty
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where the court ruled 5-4
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that the federal government could not force a christian company
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to violate their religious beliefs if its owners
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and force them to pay for abortion-inducing drugs
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under Obamacare that the session was 54
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one justice away from the supreme court saying
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yes the federal court can calm and order
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a christian company or the Little Sisters of the Poor
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or you and me to violate our religious beliefs
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how far have we come
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and yet in the aftermath that Senate Democrats in Washington introduce
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legislation
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to got the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act
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I gave an impassioned speech on the Senate floor
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where i assed when did the Democratic Party abandon religious liberty I was
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next to a gigantic picture
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up John F Kennedy who said I will not stand with a man who will not stand for
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religious liberty
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my father Rafael Cruz a pastor who many have you gotten
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now my dad turned on C-span saw me next to JFK
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scared the living daylights outta the they said goodness gracious my son is
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gone they if
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and I asked on the senate floor where the JFK's
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is there no one in the democratic party who will stand
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for religious liberty there were 55 Democrats in the Senate
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you know how many voted to stand for religious liberty
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0
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how extreme house Sat how
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radicalized has the parents have a credit card got
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and we see this especially in the marriage debate
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on Tuesday United States Supreme Court
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work will hear or oral arguments
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in a case that threatens the court
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may well attempt to strike down marriage loss
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in all 50 states
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I have to tell you one thing that I think all of us a call to do
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between now and then especially on Tuesday its fall to our knees in prayer
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the
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and
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he and I were at our home chart remembers a First Baptist in Houston we
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went
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stood up in the head curiously of the head like a little
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you know I was all prepared to give a a sermon on Mother's Day said is a Hyundai
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gregg Braden props
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centuries of our nation history that it never happened and it happened that week
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and iPad
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at our congregation we're gonna spend Sunday morning on our knees
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prayer for our nation every one of us is called to lift this nation up in prayer
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but we're also kept called the stand and fight
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this week I introduced in the united states senate
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a constitutional amendment to preserve the authority at the state's
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to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman the
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I also introduce legislation in the United States Senate
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to strip the federal courts have jurisdiction
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over any litigation seeking to tear down
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traditional marriage laws in the states the
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I was on steve King introduce very similar legislation in the House
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representatives
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the
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we need leaders who will stand unapologetically
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in defensive the judeo-christian values America was built
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we need leaders who will stand
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unapologetically in defense
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%uh marriage and life 18 later show will stand unapologetically in defense in the
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first amendment
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and the Bill of Rights and the religious liberty up every American the
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now in Indiana and Arkansas we're playing out
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the democratic party as a whole
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was unified in attacking religious liberty today's Democratic Party
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it seems has decided there are no room for Christians
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in the democratic party we saw in indiana
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Christian owner a pizza parlor who was driven out of business
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because over religious faith
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here in Iowa
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you'll have seen the very same thing with the Kirk's house
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I had the great privileges
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visiting with Deccan batty who own the Kirk's house
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a facility that was used
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for weddings for years until
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they explain to a gay couple they could not
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in good conscience allow the church facility on their property to be used
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for a homosexual wedding they were sued in an effort to force them to violate
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their religious faith in this wonderful couple
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here in Iowa was forced
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through litigation the stop doing what it's
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today you cannot get
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a wedding at the carts house anymore because
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the modern Democratic Party has gotten so extreme
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so intolerant here is a liberal
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fascism that is dedicated
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to going after and targeting believing Christians
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who follow the biblical teachings on marriage this is heartbreaking but let
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me give you my word of encouragement
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it is so extreme that hideous waking
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people up
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the
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religious liberty is an issue that unifies us it unifies us across racial
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lines and ethnic lines and socioeconomic lines
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and political lines it brings us together
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and let me make a special message to the pastors and faith leaders here tonight
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there is a particular calling on us to reach out
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to reach out to others in our community others who don't
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share our views on marriage and administered at them the minister in
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love
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to minister in love tools their hearts
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and mines to engage in civil discourse the left
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practices
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vilification and insults and spews
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hatred to people face
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our friends in the media facilitated playing gotcha questions all the time
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and yet curiously they never ask
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those in the democratic party how they would react if their children became
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evangelical Christians
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the
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they never asked those in the democratic party how they would react if their
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children
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were faithful Catholics who believe the biblical teaching
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that those democratic politicians are persecuting active
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now how many of y'all seen the movie the usual suspects
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there's a line at the greatest trick the devil ever played
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was to convince the world didn't exist
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as a corollary to that
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the greatest trick the left as ever playing
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its to convince conservatives that America doesn't share our values
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where a center-right country we embrace diversity
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but we embrace the liberty of the Bill of Rights
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up each and every American to worship God
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and to live according to the faith and dictates of our conscience
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the
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change is coming on january twentieth
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2017 there will be a new president
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in Wash the
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and change will come from the american people I'm gonna close with a simple
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store
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January 20th 2017
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an older man wats up
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to the front gate at the white house the marine standing guard he said excuse me
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sir
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is Barack Obama here the rain says I'm sorry
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Barack Obama's no longer present in the United States
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the next day january 21st same
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older man walks up to the front door %uh Safmarine is there he says excuse me sir
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as Barack Obama here
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the marina visibly annoyed said I'm sorry sir
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Barack Obama's no longer president at the United States
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January 20 seconds
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the third day same older gentlemen what's up
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ass the marine the same question the marine says star
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I've told you this three days in a row
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Barack Obama is no longer present in the United States
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the old man with a twinkle in his eye said
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I know the facts I just love hearing you say it
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the
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the
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at memory soloists and says see you tomorrow starr
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the
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thank you and god bless you the

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