Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas urged a defense of “the tradition of sacrifice and religious freedom that our country was built on” as he spoke April 25 at Sutherland Institute’s 2014 Annual Dinner at The Grand America Hotel.
In a concise speech laced with humor, Sen. Cruz praised religious freedom and the rule of law. “Religious liberty should not be treated like a redheaded stepchild, as a less valuable right than the rest of the Bill of Rights.”
He took President Obama to task for setting aside various parts of Obamacare by fiat despite the fact that Congress had passed the health care law.
Sen. Cruz compared today’s climate to that of the late 1970s – economic malaise, ineffective foreign policy, high spending and taxes: “If there’s one person on the Earth glad of the job Barack Obama’s doing, it’s Jimmy Carter.”
Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, who introduced his colleague, spoke about the meaning of freedom, emphasizing that free markets and strong institutions of civil society create opportunities for upward economic mobility.
“We have an understanding in our country that freedom ultimately does not mean you’re all on your own,'” he said. “Freedom, properly understood, means we’re all in this together.'”
Click here to watch Sen. Cruz’s speech.
Click here for Sen. Lee’s speech.
Pamela Whitmore is editor at Sutherland Institute.
DarrelSimonMay 9, 2014
This is typical two-faced hypocrisy of right wing politicians, bitter about losing the last election. They boast of their right to disagree with the left, but oppose the left's right to disagree with them. These two are ignorant that it was a right wing ultra-Protestant lynch mob that MURDERED the prophet Joseph Smith Junior (1805 - 1844) on Thursday June 27, 1844 because he would not bow to their individualist agenda. James Earl "Jimmy" Carter (1924 - ) for all his faults was at least a devout protestant Christian who didn't try too shove his view point down other people's throats, unlike these two hypocritical two-faced right wingers.