"They just are required by a little thing called the Constitution to leave their religious faith at church, at home or in their hearts, and not bring it to their public, taxpayer-funded jobs." Got that, you so-called christians?

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COMMENTS:
*  There are thousands of Christians across this nation who kindly and happily provide services like these to gay people every day. To insinuate that the imprisonment of one woman for her refusal to comply with the law somehow is an attack on all Christians is pure nonsense.  I keep hearing tell of how intelligent Ted Cruz is. If this is so, then he is terribly dishonest. For no intelligent man can say such wrong-headed things truthfully.
   *  He's inflaming the base. He can't possibly believe what he's saying. None of them do. That's their job. They are mouthpieces.
*  I think all the jews, muslims, atheists, and other non-christians in this country should deny services to christians for a week. You won't hear anything about "religious freedom" once they experience the bigotry of their actions from the other side.
*  You would think comments like this would disqualify anyone as a candidate tor president. But in the alternate universe Fox News has enabled, these pass as legitimate opinions.
*  "Ms. Davis was not arrested for living according to her faith. She was arrested for using her government power to impose her religious beliefs on others. A conservative should be furious at her for violating the First Amendment."  And you can bet Mr. Cruz would have, had she been a Muslim.
*   This situation with Ms. Davis should not be viewed in isolation.This is only one front of the war to create the Christian States of America where the Government and right wing Christianity are deeply intertwined.  Think the Americanized version of Sharia law and you'll get the vision of the theocracy the seek to make reality.
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Insane Things Republicans Say: Ted Cruz Edition
By Andrew Rosenthal, September 4, 2015

Donald Trump is so outrageous and noisy that it’s easy to forget about Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. So we Googled him this morning and we were rewarded.

Here is what he said on Thursday about Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who went to jail for contempt of court after she refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples:

“Today, for the first time ever, the government arrested a Christian woman for living according to her faith. This is wrong. This is not America.”

He’s right. That’s not America – in the real country, as opposed to his fictional version, Ms. Davis was not arrested for living according to her faith. She was arrested for using her government power to impose her religious beliefs on others. A conservative should be furious at her for violating the First Amendment.

But no — Mr. Cruz said: “I stand with Kim Davis. Unequivocally. I stand with every American that the Obama Administration is trying to force to choose between honoring his or her faith or complying with a lawless court opinion.”

Leaving aside the interesting phrase “lawless court opinion,” when did the Obama administration try to compel anyone to make that choice? Certainly not in the case of Ms. Davis, who was directly flouting a ruling by the Supreme Court. Mr. Obama had nothing to do with it.

But Mr. Cruz was not stopping even there. “Those who are persecuting Kim Davis believe that Christians should not serve in public office,” he said. “That is the consequence of their position. Or, if Christians do serve in public office, they must disregard their religious faith – or be sent to jail.”

No, they don’t have to disregard their religious faith. They just are required by a little thing called the Constitution to leave their religious faith at church, at home or in their hearts, and not bring it to their public, taxpayer-funded jobs.

This is a country “that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials.”

Or at least that’s what John Kennedy, a Christian serving in public office, thought.
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