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Anti-Gay Psuedo-Historian David Barton Tapped To Run Ted Cruz's Super PAC

David Barton is a long-time Religious Right activist(link is external) and Christian nation pseudo-historian whose 2012 book about Thomas Jefferson so shoddy that it was pulled from circulation(link is external) by its Christian publisher. Promoting inaccurate(link is external), misleading(link is external), and downright false information(link is external) has been a hallmark of Barton's career and a centerpiece of his effort to institute a virtual theocracy(link is external) in America in which our nation's laws are literally(link is external) based upon(link is external) the Bible(link is external).

Naturally, he has now been tapped to take over(link is external) the super PAC supporting Ted Cruz's presidential campaign:

David Barton, an influential Christian author and activist, is taking charge of the leading super-PAC supporting Ted Cruz.

The super-PAC, Keep the Promise PAC, is the umbrella for a group of related pro-Cruz political committees that raised $38 million in the first half of the year, more than the super-PACs supporting any other candidate with the exception of Jeb Bush.

"From the outset, the Keep the Promise PACs made their mission to provide a voice for the millions of courageous conservatives who are looking to change the direction of the country," Keep the Promise PAC said in a statement today. "Barton's involvement is an important step signaling that the effort will not be run by a D.C. consultant but by a grassroots activist."

A long-time(link is external) vice-chairman of the Texas Republican Party, where he is based, Barton is notorious for exaggerating(link is external) his(link is external) own accomplishments(link is external) and for regularly making outrageous statements such as his assertions that the Founding Fathers opposed the teaching of evolution(link is external), that the Bible opposes Net Neutrality,(link is external) and that Jesus opposes the minimum wage(link is external).

He believes that demons control(link is external) the government and is also a Second Amendment radical who insists that there should literally be no limits(link is external) on what sort of weapons individuals can own(link is external), including tanks, jet fighters, or nuclear weapons.

But most of all, Barton is vehemently anti-gay, claiming that schools are forcing students to be gay(link is external) and that the government should regulate gay sex(link is external). Recently, he has been telling audiences that the Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage will force all student athletes to share the same locker rooms(link is external) and churches to hire pedophiles(link is external) to run their nurseries while requiring the military to protect those who engage in bestiality(link is external).

Barton also believes that homosexuality is "reprehensible and disgusting(link is external)" and "very repugnant(link is external)" and that the government can outlaw it(link is external). He has also repeatedly asserted(link is external) that a cure for AIDS will never be found because the disease is God's punishment(link is external) for sin(link is external):

And now he has been placed in charge of coordinating millions of dollars to help elect Ted Cruz to be the next president.