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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 21, 2013 in Facebook posts:
Congress, criminals, Scientologists and other groups are exempt from Obamacare.
Mostly False
By Julie Kliegman • October 24, 2013
Gail Collins
Gail Collins
stated on October 3, 2013 in 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.'"
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 10, 2013
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
stated on June 23, 2013 in an interview:
The Southern Baptist Convention voted 13 years ago "that women were inferior and had to be subservient to their husbands."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • June 28, 2013
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on May 1, 2013 in Web posts:
"Pentagon confirms they may court martial soldiers who hold Christian faith."
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • May 6, 2013
Randy Forbes
Randy Forbes
stated on April 11, 2013 in 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."
Mostly False
By Nancy Madsen • May 3, 2013
Emergency Committee for Israel
Emergency Committee for Israel
stated on October 9, 2012 in 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."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 11, 2012
Hank Johnson
Hank Johnson
stated on February 28, 2012 in 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.
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • March 9, 2012
Barth Bracy
Barth Bracy
stated on February 3, 2012 in a radio interview:
The polls "show over half of Americans identify themselves as being pro-life."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 12, 2012
Chain email
Chain email
stated on January 30, 2012 in 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."  
Mostly False
By Caryn Shinske • February 9, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 30, 2012 in a speech in Tampa, Fla.:
"Gov. Romney cut off kosher meals for Jewish senior citizens who were on Medicaid to save $5 a day."
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • February 1, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 30, 2012 in 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." 
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • January 31, 2012
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on June 13, 2011 in the Republican primary presidential debate in Manchester, NH:
Muslims tried to use Sharia law to influence court decisions in New Jersey and Oklahoma
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • June 20, 2011
Alan Grayson
Alan Grayson
stated on October 6, 2010 in a campaign commercial:
Daniel Webster "is an advocate for a group that teaches that mothers should not work outside the home."
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman, Louis Jacobson • October 6, 2010
Franklin Graham
Franklin Graham
stated on August 19, 2010 in an interview on CNN:
"The seed of Muslim is passed through the father."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 26, 2010
Rick Lazio
Rick Lazio
stated on August 17, 2010 in Fox News "Hannity" program.:
A New York imam wants to "have a mosque at Ground Zero.'' 
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • August 19, 2010
Dana Milbank
Dana Milbank
stated on January 3, 2010 in a column in the Washington Post:
"Americans admire Glenn Beck more than they admire the pope."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 4, 2010
Barney Frank
Barney Frank
stated on December 21, 2008 in TV interview:
"Mr. Warren compared same-sex couples to incest."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • January 14, 2009
People for the American Way
People for the American Way
stated on December 17, 2008 in Press release:
The Rev. Rick Warren "has called Christians who advance a social gospel Marxists."  
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • January 14, 2009
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