Posted on 04/27/2015 1:41:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If there is a worse example of our politics today than this, I’d hate to see it.
Ted Cruz, the ultra-conservative Texas senator running for the GOP’s presidential nomination, spent an evening last week visiting with about a dozen people at the Manhattan home of Ian Reisner and Mati Weiderpass, the gay proprietors of, among other properties, the Out NYC hotel. Cruz’s opinions about gay marriage are very different from those of the hoteliers. But — gasp! — he and Reisner, in particular, apparently agree about other issues, notably foreign policy and America’s relationship with Israel. So they met to talk about those issues.
Afterward, all hell broke loose.
Cruz was criticized by some social conservatives for the get-together, in part because he reportedly made some comments that reflected tolerance toward gay people. But this backlash was puny in comparison to what hit Reisner and Weiderpass.
For meeting with Cruz — not endorsing him, not holding a fund-raiser for him, but merely meeting with him — they face boycott threats against their businesses....
(Excerpt) Read more at kylewingfield.blog.ajc.com ...
Ultra-conservative? Wanting the Constitution (our government’s contract with the people) to be enforced is that radical? I thought it was a centrist position.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution is a bunch of sniveling far-left hacks.
For meeting with Cruz — not endorsing him, not holding a fund-raiser for him, but merely meeting with him — they face boycott threats against their businesses....
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Yeppers. So when we say the gaystapo will stop at nothing when it comes to blindly goose-stepping at anything - this proves it.
We hear all the time that conservatives must learn to be more “tolerant” (a word I put in quotes because of how often it is misused in these discussions), and yet the more vicious backlash here, by far, was on the part of those who demand tolerance.
Maybe some liberals are starting to think.
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