AP Photo Ted Cruz plans religious liberty rally at Bob Jones

Ted Cruz is planning a major rally around religious liberty in November at Bob Jones University in South Carolina, the latest in his continued push to win over evangelical voters who comprise a key voting bloc in the Republican primaries.

The rally, to be held on November 14, is modeled after a similar one that Cruz held in August in Iowa. Cruz told a Des Moines crowd of more than 2,500 then that, “There is a war on faith in America today.”


Cruz has made outreach to conservative Christians central to his candidacy. He launched his campaign in March at Liberty University in Virginia, the world’s largest Christian university. He traveled to Kentucky to support clerk Kim Davis after she was arrested for refusal to issue gay marriage licenses. And he talks repeatedly about the threats against religious freedom on the campaign trail.

Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, is expected to join Cruz at the Bob Jones University rally, along with twin brothers Jason and David Benham, whose reality TV show on HGTV was cancelled after making comments about a gay “agenda.”