- Sen. Ted Cruz
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Press Release from Cruz for President
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | Alice
Stewart |
News Release | Catherine
Frazier |
March 17, 2016 |
Dr. Robert George Endorses Ted Cruz for President
Distinguished Conservative Catholic Leader Stands with Cruz
HOUSTON, Texas – Presidential
candidate Ted Cruz today announced the endorsement of Dr. Robert P.
George, who has been described by the New York Times as our nation’s
“most influential conservative Christian thinker.”
“I
have known Ted for over two decades, since he was my student at
Princeton,” said Dr. George. “He is among the most brilliant students I
have taught and one of the most principled and dedicated public
servants I know. But the reason I am recommending Ted to my fellow
citizens goes beyond our years of friendship – I am endorsing Ted
because he understands the Constitution and has spent his entire career
defending it. No one has been stronger than Ted in standing up for
religious liberty and other fundamental constitutional freedoms.
Moreover, he understands and is determined to restore the basic
structural principles of the Constitution that our Founding Fathers
knew were the true bulwarks protecting liberty: the separation of
powers; federalism; the concept of the national government as a
government of delegated and enumerated – and thus limited – powers; the
understanding of courts as faithful interpreters of law who have no
authority to read things into the Constitution that aren’t there, or
read things out of the Constitution that are.
“In
order to protect religious liberty, restore the right of the people to
protect innocent human life in all stages and conditions and the
institution of marriage as the union of husband and wife, and preserve
other key constitutional values, we need a Republican president who has
both the record and the judgment to nominate judges and justices who
are faithful constitutionalists,” George continued. “Ted Cruz will not
only devote political capital to ensuring that every nominee will
protect our constitutional freedoms, but he will foster a culture, from
the top down, that honors the Constitution – the one thing that,
despite our differences, binds us all together as Americans.”
Dr.
George, an eminent scholar and teacher of constitutional
interpretation, civil liberties, and philosophy of law, holds Princeton
University’s celebrated McCormick Professorship of Jurisprudence and is
founder and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals
and Institutions at Princeton. He has served the nation as a member of
the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the President’s Council on
Bioethics, and as Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International
Religious Freedom. He is the author of a number of books, including In
Defense of Natural Law, Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public
Morality, and Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of
Liberal Secularism, and co-author of What is Marriage? Man and Woman: A
Defense and Embryo: A Defense of Human Life.
“I am honored to have Professor George’s endorsement,”
said Cruz. “Professor George has been a preeminent voice defending the
sanctity of life, marriage, and religious liberty in the 21st
century. I've known Professor George over twenty-five years; he was my
thesis advisor in college, and is a friend. He is an intellectual
powerhouse who never cowers to liberal academia, and he speaks the
truth with a clarity and conviction that moves hearts and minds.
Professor George is a man of faith. He represents the vibrancy of
thought in Christianity, and I’ve been grateful to fight alongside him
for years in defending our God-given rights. We are delighted to have
his leadership as we continue to make this election a referendum on our
constitutional liberties.”
Last week Dr. George, along with more than 30 other Catholic leaders,
authored An Appeal to our Fellow Catholics, an article in National Review Online
urging Catholics and “all men and women of goodwill” to support a “a
genuinely reformist candidate” and to oppose a Trump candidacy, stating
that “Donald Trump is manifestly unfit to be president of the United
States.”
Dr. George is the recipient of many honors and awards, including the
Presidential Citizens Medal, the Honorific Medal for Human Rights of
the Republic of Poland, and the Canterbury Medal of the Becket Fund for
Religious Liberty. He is a senior fellow at the Witherspoon Institute
and has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. He holds
honorary doctorates in law, letters, ethics, science, divinity, humane
letters, civil law, and juridical science.
*Titles and affiliations of Dr.
Robert P. George are provided for identification purposes only.
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