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Thu Apr 3, 2014, 08:09 PM Apr 2014

Carnival Cruz lies again...

And gets caught again.

Seriously, who would be stupid enough to let Cruz give a big speech like this?
Jerry Falwell's "Liberty University."
Figures.

Sen. Ted Cruz Repeats Lie About How He ‘Won’ the Case to Keep ‘Under God’ in the Pledge of Allegiance

April 3, 2014 By Hemant Mehta 68 Comments

It was only a couple of weeks ago when Senator Ted Cruz told the audience at a Network of Iowa Christian Home Educators conference that he played a significant role in keeping “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance.

That was a lie. After Justice Antonin Scalia recused himself from the case, 5 of the 8 remaining justices dismissed the case altogether saying that Newdow didn’t have proper standing to bring the case to court. There was no official ruling on the case’s merits. Cruz didn’t “win” anything.

Yet, he’s still repeating the lie, most recently, during a speech yesterday at Jerry Falwell‘s Liberty University:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/04/03/sen-ted-cruz-repeats-lie-about-how-he-won-the-case-to-keep-under-god-in-the-pledge-of-allegiance/

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