Posted on 04/10/2015 11:39:38 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Over the course of America’s recent debate on “religious freedom” laws, most potential Republican candidates for president were hesitant to come down too hard in either direction. Jeb Bush appeared to shift his position on the issue and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) more or less ignored it. But not Ted Cruz.
The Texas Republican and first-declared GOP presidential candidate is still speaking out strongly in favor of the laws that many believe would have sanctioned discrimination, even after the governors of Indiana and Arkansas were forced to demand changes to prevent such an outcome. And on Thursday, at a presidential candidate forum in Iowa, Cruz took his rhetoric to the next level, accusing gay rights groups of waging “jihad” against Christians.
“We look at the jihad that is being waged right now in Indiana and Arkansas, going after people of faith who respect the Biblical teaching that marriage is the union of one man and one woman,” Cruz said, with Mike Huckabee seated at his side. “We need to bring people together to the religious liberty values that built this country,” he said, harkening back to the time that Democrats and Republicans agreed on these issues.
“This election needs to be about bringing together that consensus again, and that’s got to come from the people,” Cruz declared.
But when it comes to the issue of same-sex marriage and discrimination against the LGBT community, the “consensus” is on the other side. A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released last month showed that a record 59% of Americans support same-sex marriage. And it is quite likely that the Supreme Court will make gay marriage legal nationwide in the coming months.
Comparing gay rights activists to Muslim extremists might play well at a meeting of the Network of Iowa Christian Home Educators and could even help Cruz win some key Republican primaries. But does he really think that this type of talk is going to lead to him becoming president of the United States?
good start! we need a term for this. fagahad? homohad?
jihomo? sodomahad?
I can see the poll questions now:
"Do you think Gays should be allowed to marry, or alternatively, forced to perform live sex acts in front of grade schools?"
Or some similar false dichotomy...
As long as he makes this an issue of FREEDOM and LIBERTY, I believe he can.
I must add this.
Cruz MUST DESTROY the left/Media’s infatuation with GROUPS !!!
He can do this.
True Freedom does not exist in a GROUP.
True Liberty cannot exist in a GROUP.
Groups are defined, and most Individuals fundamentally reject being defined.
Ted Cruz can and should address every “Group” attack/question without giving the “Group” any recognition or standing and speak directly to the individual.
When faggies crash a Chick Fil-A that’s a `gayvasion’.
Really sick of their kind.
Ted Cruz. Driving Liberals insane and living rent free in the debris. LOL!
Me too.
Cruz is the only one who can take the media on unlike some others. Cruz can articulate the facts unlike some others,.
Cruz is about the most perfect candidate running for a long time. Bush, Paul, etc will not get this family’s vote
Yep. Maybe as many as 35% of Americans support laws to punish bakeries and adoption agencies, employers, schools, youth organizations, photographers, and churchmen who tell open homosexuals to apply, to apply elsewhere. Maybe a third of Americans think that peacefully, civilly, quietly telling open homosexuals to take it somewhere else, should be punished.
But an easy 60 percent at least of Americans I'll bet think that the same as it's okay for homosexuals and their families to pretend the same-sex couple is married, it's also okay for the folks around them to turn away from it, peacefully, civilly, and refuse to participate.
That could certainly be construed as being in "support of gay marriage," if you have zero objections to it as long as you have the freedom to avoid the folks indulging in it, peacefully, civilly.
I can see the answers to that off some other candidates too.
Cruz No, marriage is sacred but no one is stoping them form having a union and the states have decided.
Bush, well yes they can marry and maybe they should not do their sex in public.
Paul,, hell yes they should be allowed and should have sex anywhere in public, while snorting coke outside that K school as we should not let Government tell others what they can do.
To the author -
most people do understand, at least in the depths of their minds, that this issue is about “getting Christians” and not about “civil rights”.
I thought the Left wanted the President to be elected by MAJORITY RULE, not the Electoral College? By that method, Cruz wins. Homosexual aberrants and sodomite offenders are a tiny minority of Americans, thank God.
Good Politician response to LGBT hack: “Do you really believe that one man inserting his penis in to another mans anus is love? I believe it to be perversion. Let’s ask the American public directly.”
Sure, why not?
JIHOMO!
What this guy and his boyfriends are *really* asking themselves is ‘My God, COULD Cruz really win talking like this!?!’
A FAGWA
Just curious, what industry is that?
I agree that the actual number of Americans who support gay marriage is much smaller than purported. I also think that the number of people who are actually gay in this country is smaller than reported. A lot of young people now say they are gay because they have been convinced that it is hip and cool. If we keep standing for the truth, hopefully that number will drop.
Good post.
BUMP
If the establishment Republicans are still powerful enough to force Jeb Bush on us, and the Democrat is so incredibly awful that Bush wins, it all might be mitigated by one thing: if Bush and Mitch McConnell agreed to offer Ted Cruz appointment to the US Supreme Court.
Bush and McConnell would agree to it likely thinking that they would get Cruz out of the way, but Cruz becoming a justice would effectively give conservatives control over an entire branch of government. Finally ending the swing vote of justice Kennedy, who far too often sides with the leftist side of the court.
Conservatives want huge, enormous changes to the way the government operates, but while the POTUS has become dangerously powerful, the person in that office still is not as powerful as the ability of the SCOTUS to say “NO!”
No to Obamacare. No to the EPA. No to all the other government agencies who have made themselves obnoxious.
And by all accounts, Cruz is a legal genius.
This is something to think about.
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