As military men and women fight for the freedoms of the country, shouldn’t they be allowed to exercise those freedoms as well? Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) certainly thinks so.
Cruz said Thursday that more and more service men and women are being disciplined for practicing their Christian faith, some even being court marshaled.
“The idea that we would say that men and women who are risking their lives to protect our lives and our freedom, that they have to check their First Amendment rights at the door and give up the right to speak truth and to speak and defend there faith is wrong and it’s unconstitutional,” Cruz said at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” Conference.
The Senator admonished the Obama administration for not supporting Congress in their effort to make it clear in legislation that service men and women shouldn’t have to give up their faith.
“The Obama administration explicitly says it opposes such efforts and has even threatened to veto legislation protecting the First Amendment rights of service men and women,” Cruz said.
Also angered over the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative and religious groups, he went on to say that “religious liberty is not some tangential interest.”
By their targeting practices, Cruz said the IRS was using the government to target political enemies — something he adamantly considered wrong.
Cruz’s crusade for religious liberties extended into Obamacare as well. He told those in attendance that every word of Obama’s health care plan needs to be repealed as the federal government has no place to order American citizens to forgo religious beliefs.
