Source: thinkprogress.org - Sunday, March 22, 2015
CREDIT: AP Photo/Alex Brandon The Houston Chronicle reported Sunday that first-term Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) will announce a presidential bid on Monday. He is expected to do so in a speech at Liberty University, a Lynchburg, Virginia-based Evangelical University founded by the late televangelist Jerry Falwell and known for its far-right social policies. Cruz has been an outspoken critic of those in the GOP who he says want to “abandon” the “Judeo-Christian values” on which the country was founded . At Liberty, those values include prohibitions on out-of-wedlock sex and entertainment that might “incite behaviors that are contrary to the Bible and/or the Liberty Way” such as “promiscuity” or “gratuitous crass language/behavior.” Like Falwell’s campus, Cruz has espoused some rather controversial views. Among them: 1. Denies that humans are contributing to climate change because it snowed in New Hampshire. Cruz has repeatedly rejected overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, making the debunked claims that recent weather and non-oceanic temperatures create great doubt. Moreover, by pushing the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, a ban on fracking regulation, the repeal of EPA regulations that he says “kill jobs,” increased drilling, and increasing fossil fuel exports, his energy agenda would increase CO2 emissions and hasten climate change. 2. Consistently opposes LGBT rights. Nearly a decade since Congress rejected a federal con
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CREDIT: AP Photo/Alex Brandon The Houston Chronicle reported Sunday that first-term Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) will announce a presidential bid on Monday. He is expected to do so in a speech at Liberty University, a Lynchburg, Virginia-based Evangelical University founded by the late televangelist Jerry Falwell and known for its far-right social policies. Cruz has been an outspoken critic of those in the GOP who he says want to “abandon” the “Judeo-Christian values” on which the country was founded . At Liberty, those values include prohibitions on out-of-wedlock sex and entertainment that might “incite behaviors that are contrary to the Bible and/or the Liberty Way” such as “promiscuity” or “gratuitous crass language/behavior.” Like Falwell’s campus, Cruz has espoused some rather controversial views. Among them: 1. Denies that humans are contributing to climate change because it snowed in New Hampshire. Cruz has repeatedly rejected overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, making the debunked claims that recent weather and non-oceanic temperatures create great doubt. Moreover, by pushing the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, a ban on fracking regulation, the repeal of EPA regulations that he says “kill jobs,” increased drilling, and increasing fossil fuel exports, his energy agenda would increase CO2 emissions and hasten climate change. 2. Consistently opposes LGBT rights. Nearly a decade since Congress rejected a federal con
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