Tag : Anti-Defamation League
Mike Bickle title : Ted Cruz Defends Backing From IHOP Mike Bickle, Who Said 'Hitler Was Hunter Sent by God'
summary : Despite public pressure, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz isn't distancing himself from the endorsement of International House of Prayer director Mike Bickle, an Evangelical pastor who characterized military dictator Adolf Hitler as "a hunter sent by God to go after Jews who don't to convert to Christianity." Although Jewish groups are asking Cruz campaign managers to denounce Bickle's interpretation of scripture, a senior advisor to Cruz, Nick Muzin, welcomed Bickle's support in a statement published Thursday (Feb. 11) in the Jewish Journal.
date : Feb 11, 2016 10:24 PM EST
title : Six Organizations Join Legal Battle To Remove Ten Commandments' Monument In Pennsylvania High School
summary : Six organizations this month joined the multiyear legal battle to remove a Ten Commandments' monument from Valley Junior-Senior High School in New Kensington, Penn. A lawsuit originally was waged from an atheist parent who refused to send her daughter to school due to the monument's presence on the school grounds. The monument was donated to the school district by the Fraternal Order of Eagles in the 1950s, part of a nationwide movement in response to the 1956 release of the movie, “The Ten Commandments.” The lawsuit now will carry into 2016.
date : Dec 28, 2015 12:01 PM EST
Mike Huckabee title : Mike Huckabee Stands by Holocaust Remark to Describe US-Iran Nuclear Deal: ‘I Will Stand With Our Ally, Israel’
summary : Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has refused to apologize for drawing references from the World War II atrocities of the Holocaust to describe the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administration as a bad one for Israel. His comments have led others within the GOP to keep their distance from him.
date : Jul 28, 2015 01:28 PM EDT