A brief post as I get ready to teach a class.
Ted Cruz announced his candidacy for the Republican
nomination for president. He was born in Canada. The Constitution says that the
president must be born in the United States. But apparently Cruz and many other
Republicans believe this does not apply to them. In contrast, the “birther”
contingent is still powerful within the Republican Party: they consider that
Barack Obama is not really an American despite the fact that he was born in
Hawaii. Clearly, many Republicans do not consider themselves bound by the
Constitution.
Cruz made his announcement at Liberty University, which
is the pulpit of the late Jerry Falwell. For both Cruz and Falwell, God’s work
on Earth consists entirely of whatever the conservative wing of the Republican
Party decides it wants to do.
Christianity is sort of irrelevant to all of this. The
only relevant connection with religion here is that Republicans consider themselves
to be the chosen people of God upon the face of the Earth.
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