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?
Given that over 83% of Americans are Christian and less than 2% are gay (if even that), and this is a fight between freedom of religion/Christian rights as against the diktats from the gay gestapo, I’d say Ted Cruz wins easy. We are not going to sit idly by and let a bunch of nasty, Stalinist, dictatorial homos, dictate to us and take away our constitutional rights of freedom of expression and freedom of religion.
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Did anyone tell mediaite that laws aren't passed by polls, and that Supreme Court rulings can be overturned?
Has anyone at mediaite ever read the Constitution, or engaged in a study of the Federalist Papers and the intent of our founders to guarantee the freedom of religion?
Who would go to a place with that kind of cheap furniture?
The media is so scared of Cruz it is hilarious
The author is a complete moron.
Liberals can go ahead and take a running jump when Cruz wins. Yes, you are like ISIS, in fact YOU’RE WORSE!
Yes, I think that is the best! They have declared a fagwa against profamily christians and anyone with conservative values. They want to make us love and endorse their lifestyle, bake ‘em cakes and take their pictures while they engage in perversion.
Somehow it fits with obozo too.
Cruz could make it an oblique argument: Do you Grubers want Grandchildren?
How about “yes”...
Ted Cruz will probably say a lot of things that the libturds will find offensive. Good for him. I won’t vote for anyone who’s not willing to say such things.
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