- Matt Wilstein -
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?
Dunno. Barack talked of middle America clinging to bibles and guns yet still became president, so why not?
RE: Does Ted Cruz Really Think He Can Talk About a Gay ‘Jihad’ and Still be President?
As long as he makes this an issue of FREEDOM and LIBERTY, I believe he can.
You betcha! Go, Ted, GO!!
Probably 35% of Americans support gay marriage. The MSM disinformation on this is as bad as the global warming scam.
Hell they overran my industry and ruined it. So I saw firsthand the fagajhiad
The media has no clue whatsoever how many people are sick and freaking tired of the social takeover games being played by the LGBT jihadis and others.
Yes, I firmly believe such talk - when based on clear constitutional principles - will help, if for no other reason than it validates the disgust so many Americans feel at what is happening.
” As long as he makes this an issue of FREEDOM and LIBERTY, I believe he can.”
And Cruz is an expert at this.
The aim of the Left is to vigilantly shout down those who disagree with them.
Don’t be cowed. Keep talking...if necessary from the corner of the crowd, from prison, from the grave. Continue to speak out against evil.
- Matt Wilstein -
How does a 2% tail wag this huge dog?
Neckbeard.
Matt Wilstein and the rest of the queers at Mediaite are having hissy fits today.
98 percent of America is tired of the queer mafia.
...girls not allowed.
Yes and bring to the fore front the Jihad the 1 to 2% of the population are attempting.
I say yes, because this is happening now in real time. We didn’t just imagine what happened last week to Memories Pizza. No one had to make that story up, did they?
Yes, the Pink Elephant in the room must be discussed and domesticated in some humane manner.
Horse feathers, that's what the enemedia says.
GO Ted Cruz!
Somehow that caption sounds, what? Ironic and even Oxymoronic.
A jihad against religious Americans becomes a “gay jihad.” Say it to his face, mediaidiot, and he will expose you for the fools that you are.
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