Post by Logan on Feb 12, 2016 4:14:22 GMT -6
ROCK HILL -- With the national political spotlight shifting to the Bible Belt, Republican presidential candidates camped out in South Carolina have begun stepping up their campaigns to win over evangelicals – a group that’s expected to make up nearly 60 percent of the vote in the state’s GOP primary on Feb. 20.
On Thursday night, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and Dr. Ben Carson spoke about issues such as religious liberty, traditional marriage and abortion to about 500 people attending the “Carolina Values Summit” at Winthrop University in Rock Hill. Cruz, whose win in the Iowa caucuses was credited to his support among evangelicals, ended the evening with a rally at Morningstar Fellowship Church in Fort Mill that also featured conservative TV-radio host Glenn Beck.
At the Winthrop gathering, Cruz pledged that, if elected, he would instruct the U.S. Justice Department on his first day of office to open an investigation of Planned Parenthood.
The Texas senator also blasted the “five unelected judges” on the U.S. Supreme Court for voting last year to legalize same-sex marriage. “Contrary to popular wisdom, the Supreme Court did not invent marriage,” Cruz said. “It was ordained by God as the union of one man and one woman.”
Read more here: www.charlotteobserver.com/living/religion/article59922936.html
On Thursday night, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and Dr. Ben Carson spoke about issues such as religious liberty, traditional marriage and abortion to about 500 people attending the “Carolina Values Summit” at Winthrop University in Rock Hill. Cruz, whose win in the Iowa caucuses was credited to his support among evangelicals, ended the evening with a rally at Morningstar Fellowship Church in Fort Mill that also featured conservative TV-radio host Glenn Beck.
At the Winthrop gathering, Cruz pledged that, if elected, he would instruct the U.S. Justice Department on his first day of office to open an investigation of Planned Parenthood.
The Texas senator also blasted the “five unelected judges” on the U.S. Supreme Court for voting last year to legalize same-sex marriage. “Contrary to popular wisdom, the Supreme Court did not invent marriage,” Cruz said. “It was ordained by God as the union of one man and one woman.”
Read more here: www.charlotteobserver.com/living/religion/article59922936.html