Has anyone seen the Freedom from the Truth propaganda trucks yet?
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When you enter one, after walking past a reproduction of a painting of English colonists praying before a cross, you meet the animated Washington, who tells you sternly that despite their differences, the 13 colonies agreed: "Our rights are a gift from God, not a favor from kings or courts."
It's a familiar-sounding line, invoking the core American concept of inalienable rights, but the statement isn't actually from Washington. Lindsay Chervinsky, the executive director of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon, told me in an email that the quote doesn't even sound like the first president.
"He regularly spoke of providence and a higher power, but usually called on republican values and virtues to defend his positions." A similar sentence can, however, be found in an events tool kit from Freedom 250, the White House"led group behind the trucks, under suggested "faith-based messaging."
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When I asked people in Maryland about the emphasis on Christianity in the trucks, I heard a refrain along the lines of what Leslie Bankert, who had brought her teen sons to the truck as a homeschool field trip, told me: "We're Christians, so we liked that."
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