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stated on May 8, 2025 in posts:

Robert Prevost, the Roman Catholic cardinal who was chosen to be the new pope, is a “registered Republican.”

By Amy Sherman, Grace Abels • May 9, 2025

CatholicVote
stated on August 17, 2022 in an ad:

Three churches were targeted during arson attacks over the summer “because they protect unborn babies and women in need.”

By Tom Kertscher • September 1, 2022

Instagram posts
stated on December 28, 2021 in a post:

“NASA hired 24 theologians to study human reaction to aliens.”

By Monique Curet • January 18, 2022

Facebook posts
stated on March 24, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Says the suspected Boulder mass shooter is a Muslim "who entered illegally from Mexico and purchased the firearm from a guy that sells stolen guns."

By Tom Kertscher • March 30, 2021

Kelly Loeffler
stated on November 13, 2020 in an ad:

Says Raphael Warnock defended the “hatred” of Jeremiah Wright, the pastor who said “not God bless America, God damn America,” and gave Wright “an award for truth telling.”

By Tom Kertscher • December 1, 2020

Liberty Counsel
stated on May 1, 2020 in a blog post:

Under the mayor’s COVID-19 order, Kansas City “churchgoers must register with the government.”

By Tom Kertscher • May 7, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on April 23, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says North Carolina banned and criminalized "Islamic Sharia Law"

By Samantha Putterman • May 23, 2019

Corey Stewart
stated on June 13, 2018 in in an interview:

"I have always condemned … any of these white supremacists or bigots or anything like that."

By Bill McCarthy • June 20, 2018

Oath Keepers
stated on April 19, 2018 in a blog post:

"California State Assembly bill would ban the (sale of the) Bible!"

By Jon Greenberg • April 26, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on July 12, 2017 in a CBN interview:

"I've gotten rid of the Johnson Amendment … I signed an executive order so that now ... ministers and and preachers and rabbis and whoever it may be, they can speak. You know, you couldn’t speak politically before, now you can."

By Miriam Valverde • July 18, 2017

Terry McAuliffe
stated on November 30, 2016 in a radio interview.:

"We would be just like North Carolina with HB2-like (transgender bathroom) legislation. It actually passed our chamber and I vetoed it."

By Warren Fiske • December 5, 2016

Ohio Republican Party
stated on October 28, 2016 in a campaign mailer:

"Casey Weinstein: No faith in our military" ... "When some of our cadets wanted to watch a religious film, Casey Weinstein sued the U.S. military. Sued our soldiers?"

By Nadia Pflaum • November 7, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on December 7, 2015 in a campaign statement:

Says 25 percent of U.S. Muslims "agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad."

By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson • December 9, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on September 22, 2015 in an interview with Fox's "The Kelly File":

There is not "one of the Muslim nations" that doesn't have "discrimination against women, discrimination against gays, subjugation of other religious beliefs."

By Lauren Carroll • September 25, 2015

Mike Huckabee
stated on September 16, 2015 in the CNN Republican debate:

The government "made accommodation to the Fort Hood shooter to let him grow a beard" for religious reasons.

By Jon Greenberg • September 17, 2015

David Ralston
stated on July 13, 2015 in an interview:

There is debate among constitutional scholars about whether the First Amendment will continue to protect faith leaders from being forced to perform marriages against their religious beliefs.

By Nancy Badertscher • August 12, 2015

Rafael Cruz
stated on July 31, 2015 in an interview with the Austin American-Statesman:

"Prior to 1962, everybody prayed before school started," and "the Bible was the principal textbook in all schools."

By Anna Bruzgulis • August 10, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on March 23, 2015:

"Today roughly half of born-again Christians aren’t voting. They’re staying home."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 30, 2015

Jonathan Turley
stated on January 11, 2015 in a "Washington Post" op-ed:

The Obama administration "supported Muslim allies trying to establish a new international blasphemy standard."

By Jon Greenberg • January 14, 2015

Jim DeMint
stated on April 3, 2014 in a broadcast of "Vocal Point":

"A lot of the move to free the slaves ... did not come from the federal government. It came from a growing movement among the people, particularly people of faith."

By Jon Greenberg • April 15, 2014

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