Dan Quinn, Author at Texas Freedom Network

Far-right Org Wants Textbooks to Portray Southern Whites as Victims after the U.S. Civil War

Posted on April 23, 2014 (February 3, 2022)

A right-wing organization long involved in the Texas textbook wars wants new history textbooks to portray the treatment of former Confederate states and white southerners after the U.S. Civil War as similar to the British treatment of its colonies in the years leading up the American Revolution. “Radical Reconstruction (1867-1877) featured numerous serious constitutional problems, many of which reprised […]

Rafael Cruz Falsely Claims San Antonio Will Fine Pastors Who Preach Against Homosexuality

Posted on April 23, 2014 (February 3, 2022)

Rafael Cruz, the father of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, is joining David Barton in spreading blatant mistruths about San Antonio’s revised Nondiscrimination Ordinance. That ordinance now bars discrimination against LGBT people in employment, housing and public accommodations. Barton told hundreds of pastors gathered in Austin earlier this month that the ordinance bars anyone who criticizes […]

Rafael Cruz: Separation of Church and State Is a 'One-Way Wall'

Posted on April 22, 2014 (February 3, 2022)

David Barton wasn’t the only prominent speaker (see here, here and here) at the Texas Renewal Project event on April 3-4 in Austin. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and Rafael Cruz, father of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, were among the list of right-wing evangelical speakers at the gathering of hundreds of pastors and […]

Barton Repeats False Claim about Ban on Military Chaplains Praying to Jesus

Posted on April 21, 2014 (February 3, 2022)

During his talks at the Texas Renewal Project on April 3-4 in Austin, David Barton didn’t just mislead hundreds of pastors and their spouses about San Antonio’s new nondiscrimination ordinance or use the Bible to justify right-wing policies on taxation. He also repeated a favorite falsehood of the religious right about the U.S. military supposedly censoring Christian pastors. Barton told […]

David Barton's Tall Tales for Texas Pastors: Bible Verses in the Constitution, Bible Teachings on Taxes

Posted on April 18, 2014 (February 3, 2022)

We told you some of the whoppers David Barton shamelessly spouted to hundreds of pastors and their spouses at the Texas Renewal Project event in Austin on April 3-4. His dishonest claims on Thursday evening that someone who criticizes homosexuality is barred from running for the San Antonio City Council were clearly designed to rile […]

Dan Quinn

Posts by Dan Quinn

Far-right Org Wants Textbooks to Portray Southern Whites as Victims after the U.S. Civil War

Rafael Cruz Falsely Claims San Antonio Will Fine Pastors Who Preach Against Homosexuality

Rafael Cruz: Separation of Church and State Is a 'One-Way Wall'

Barton Repeats False Claim about Ban on Military Chaplains Praying to Jesus

David Barton's Tall Tales for Texas Pastors: Bible Verses in the Constitution, Bible Teachings on Taxes

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