Two people you didn’t realize are still running for president and one you couldn’t forget if you tried to are attending the “
National Religious Liberties Conference” (Freedom 2015), a two-day conservative fest that started Friday.
Bobby Jindal, Mike Huckabee, and Ted Cruz are each making appearances at the Des Moines-based conference which aims to bring together “persecuted” Christians and people who support Christian rights.
“Persecution against Christians is on the rise in Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Sudan, China, Oregon, and Kentucky,” it says in all seriousness on the front page of the conference’s website. The conference is supposed to focus on bringing together persecuted Christians and people who support Christian rights.
This event is organized by conservative radio host Kevin Swanson, whose greatest hits
include advocating for the execution of gay people and
support for Uganda’s draconian anti-homosexual laws, (a country where homosexuals experience “
corrective rape”). He also thinks God is
going to wipe out America over homosexuality and that America’s welfare system goes hand-in-hand with prostituting women.
Another two speakers appearing at the conference have also called for gay people to be executed. Reverend Phillip Kayser has said
he would approve of executing gay people, though he thinks it’s unlikely to happen in America. Joel McDurmon, president of the Christian organization American Vision,
has written “the homosexual act as a civil crime deserves the death penalty.”
Ted Cruz’s dad, Pastor Rafael Cruz, is also there.
Pastor Cruz thinks Hillary Clinton and President Obama are communists who hate religion and want to ban it. The apple doesn’t fall far.
Ted Cruz
already ducked a question from CNN’s Jake Tapper on Friday morning asking why he’s attending a conference organized by Swanson. “I don’t know what this gentleman has said and what he hasn’t said,” Cruz responded
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