Fact Check Posts – Page 2

Facebook posts
stated on October 21, 2013 Facebook posts:

Congress, criminals, Scientologists and other groups are exempt from Obamacare.

By Julie Kliegman • October 24, 2013

Gail Collins
stated on October 3, 2013 her opinion column:

Louie Gohmert of Texas "blamed the mass shooting at a movie theater in Colorado on ‘the ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs.'"

By W. Gardner Selby • October 10, 2013

Jimmy Carter
stated on June 23, 2013 an interview:

The Southern Baptist Convention voted 13 years ago "that women were inferior and had to be subservient to their husbands."

By Eric Stirgus • June 28, 2013

Bloggers
stated on May 1, 2013 Web posts:

"Pentagon confirms they may court martial soldiers who hold Christian faith."

By Becky Bowers • May 6, 2013

Randy Forbes
stated on April 11, 2013 a congressional hearing.:

The U.S. Army had a training program that put "evangelical Christians, Catholics and Mormons in the same category of religious extremism as we do al-Qaida."

By Nancy Madsen • May 3, 2013

Emergency Committee for Israel
stated on October 9, 2012 a campaign ad:

"When Congress voted to condemn Iran for sentencing a Christian pastor to death, (U.S. Rep. Lois) Capps was the only member who voted no."

By Louis Jacobson • October 11, 2012

Hank Johnson
stated on February 28, 2012 a Congressional hearing:

A socially conservative group sponsored a "prayer vigil" to stop people from buying Girl Scout cookies because it thinks the Girl Scouts are affiliated with Planned Parenthood.

By Willoughby Mariano • March 9, 2012

Barth Bracy
stated on February 3, 2012 a radio interview:

The polls "show over half of Americans identify themselves as being pro-life."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 12, 2012

Chain email
stated on January 30, 2012 a chain email:

"This year President Obama canceled the 21st annual National Day of Prayer ceremony at the White House under the ruse of ‘not wanting to offend anyone.' BUT … on September 25, 2009 from 4 AM until 7 PM, a National Day of Prayer FOR THE MUSLIM RELIGION was HELD on Capitol Hill, Beside the White House."

By Caryn Shinske • February 9, 2012

Newt Gingrich
stated on January 30, 2012 a speech in Tampa, Fla.:

"Gov. Romney cut off kosher meals for Jewish senior citizens who were on Medicaid to save $5 a day."

By Becky Bowers • February 1, 2012

Newt Gingrich
stated on January 30, 2012 a town hall in Jacksonville, Fla.:

"The Obama administration ... would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every Protestant institution the Obamacare standard of what you have to buy as insurance."

By Becky Bowers • January 31, 2012

Herman Cain
stated on June 13, 2011 the Republican primary presidential debate in Manchester, NH:

Muslims tried to use Sharia law to influence court decisions in New Jersey and Oklahoma

By Willoughby Mariano • June 20, 2011

Alan Grayson
stated on October 6, 2010 a campaign commercial:

Daniel Webster "is an advocate for a group that teaches that mothers should not work outside the home."

By Aaron Sharockman, Louis Jacobson • October 6, 2010

Franklin Graham
stated on August 19, 2010 an interview on CNN:

"The seed of Muslim is passed through the father."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 26, 2010

Rick Lazio
stated on August 17, 2010 Fox News "Hannity" program.:

A New York imam wants to "have a mosque at Ground Zero.''

By Robert Farley • August 19, 2010

Dana Milbank
stated on January 3, 2010 a column in the Washington Post:

"Americans admire Glenn Beck more than they admire the pope."

By Louis Jacobson • January 4, 2010

Barney Frank
stated on December 21, 2008 TV interview:

"Mr. Warren compared same-sex couples to incest."

By Robert Farley • January 14, 2009

People for the American Way
stated on December 17, 2008 Press release:

The Rev. Rick Warren "has called Christians who advance a social gospel Marxists."

By Robert Farley • January 14, 2009

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