Sen. Ted Cruz: The Democrats in the US Senate are going to repeal the 1st Amendment

Sen. Ted Cruz loves to pretend to tell the truth even when he's purposefully twisting it for dramatic effect and scare tactics. Read below from Right Wing Watch:

When Sen. Ted Cruz told the conservative pastors gathered at the Family Research Council’s Watchmen on the Wall conference yesterday that “the Senate Democrats are going to be voting on a constitutional amendment to repeal the First Amendment,” he was met with an audible gasp. He earned more gasps when he warned that this amendment would suppress the political speech rights of the “citizenry” and “muzzle” pastors in their pulpits.

We were surprised too. That would be news!

But then it became clear what he was talking about: Senate leadership is planning to hold a vote on a constitutional amendment overturning the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision and rulings in related campaign finance cases such as this year’s McCutcheon case, which have steadily eliminated the limits on election spending by corporations and wealthy individuals.

The amendment, written by Sen. Tom Udall, would give the federal government and states the “power to regulate the raising and spending of money and in kind equivalents” in elections, as it was allowed to do before the Supreme Court started dismantling campaign finance regulations.

So what the amendment would do is limit the amount huge corporations and ultra-wealthy individuals can donate to campaigns. The Citizens United decision has given those with enormous amounts of money huge power to sway elections.

So, unless a pastor runs a Super-PAC, they are not going to be effected in the manner that Ted Cruz seems to draw for his audience in this video.

What a douche.  Note that he never mentions Citizens United or campaign donations.  If you merely listened to this speech, you would walk away with the understanding that the US Senate is going to take away your freedom of speech or religion, WHICH is totally not going to happen.