First off, so-called "religious liberty" is alive and well in this country. In fact, GOP lawmakers are frantically trying to ensure that religionists still have the special right to openly and explicitly discriminate against people they don't agree with—which is exactly what all these anti-LGBT "religious freedom" bills are about. But that's not the way Ted Cruz told it during an MSNBC town hall Thursday in which he was asked about North Carolina's calamitous HB2 law.