Marco Rubio, Daniel Webster Linked to "Biblical Slavery" Advocate

[Joanne98]

At an Orlando rally on September 15th, 2010 Florida gubernatorial candidate Marco Rubio appeared together onstage with Texas evangelist David Barton and accepted Barton's political endorsement. As I described in a July 2010 article titled Glenn Beck's History 'Expert' Endorses Biblical Slavery, Barton has promoted an unusual take on the historic institution of slavery in America - it was wrong, but not because slavery is always wrong. American slavery was wrong because it wasn't Biblical slavery, as defined in the Old Testament books of Leviticus, Exodus, and Deuteronomy.


It wasn't a fleeting appearance - David Barton was the headlined speaker at the September 15th event along with Tea Party favorite Rubio, who might be surprised to learn he shared a stage with a religious right leader who has helped promote the idea that non-Christians can be held as slaves.
But Rubio ought to be well aware of David Barton's long career spent disseminating falsified versions of American history, replete with distortions, inaccuracies, doctored founding father quotes, and even outright lies, to advance the claim that the United States was originally intended to be a Christian nation - as detailed in the book Liars For Jesus - The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History by Chris Rodda, a contributor to this web site who was featured in a recent appearance, on the MSNBC/Keith Olbermnann show Countdown, to discuss Glenn Beck's promotion of David Barton's doctored version of US history.

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