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Bobby Jindal Makes Religious Freedom Pitch In New Iowa Ad

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BuzzFeed - The Republican Party's most vocal defender of the Duck Dynasty family looks to build his presidential campaign around religious liberty. youtube.com With a new political ad airing this week in Iowa, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is informally kicking off his bid for the Republican presidential nomination by casting himself as the conservative movement's leading voice in the culture war battle over religious freedom. The ad, which was previewed for some news outlets including BuzzFeed News, features Jindal rhapsodizing — in his signature rapid-fire twang — about the sacred need to protect religious believers' "freedom of conscience," which he argues "must, in no way, ever be linked to the ever-changing opinions of the public." It concludes with a line that has become a mainstay of his recent speeches and interviews: "The United States of America did not create religious liberty. Religious liberty created the United States of America." In keeping with what is b

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