The Sunday before the midterm elections, Pastor Rafael Cruz, father of Sen. Ted Cruz, spoke at John Hagee’s church in San Antonio, Texas, where he spent an entire hour delivering a speech that was literally little more than an amalgamation of material that he has directly pilfered from other Religious Right speakers, most notably pseudo-historian David Barton.

As we have noted before, the elder Cruz is quite fond of lifting Barton’s misinformation about American history and the Constitution and passing it along during his own presentations, but the speech he delivered at Hagee’s church was quite remarkable for just how much of it was simply a rehashing of Barton’s standard presentation.

Cruz’s presentation was such a wholesale rip-off that he even managed to work in Barton’s false claim that the Supreme Court banned school-sponsored Bible reading in public schools because it could cause brain damage:

This is a false claim that Cruz lifted directly from Barton, who has been spreading this misinformation for years and which we debunked back in 2013: