Ted Cruz backs county clerks denying marriage licenses to gay couples

MSNBC ^ | 06/28/15 12:50 AM | Adam Howard

[Olog-hai]

Sen. Ted Cruz is ready to rain on the parade of Texas citizens celebrating the Supreme Court decision on Friday to legalize same-sex marriage throughout the country.

On Saturday, the 2016 Republican presidential candidate said he “absolutely” believes that his state’s country clerks should deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples if they have a religious objection, in an interview with The Texas Tribune.

“Ours is a country that was built by men and women fleeing religious oppression,” Cruz told the newspaper, “and you look at the foundation of this country—it was to seek out a new land where anyone of us could worship the Lord God Almighty with all of our hearts, minds and souls, without government getting in the way.” …

[Artcore]

Is Ted the only one with Stones?

[skr]

No one should be forced to participate in immorality.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Surprisingly stupid argument from Cruz. I would wholeheartedly agree that States should push back and tell the Federal Goverment to go pound sand. Why should we involve a clerk of the court. Did someone catch him at Happy Hour?

[BubbaJunebug]

Good politics on his part. He’s not getting their vote anyway so why not jump out in front of it.

[Arthur McGowan]

Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, and the murderer of Terri Schiavo have already disqualified themselves as President by saying that the burps and farts of Anthony Kennedy are “the law of the land.”

Cruz is the ONLY candidate who has stated the CORRECT response to the lawless rantings of Kennedy.

[Arthur McGowan]

Simple. EVERYONE should carry out his public duties as though Anthony Kennedy’s ravings did not exist.

[familyop]

Yeah. Sure. Uh-huh.


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[ReaganGeneration2]

Next up: it will become standard financial advice at 18 to get one (or more than one!) hetero buddy and form a civil union with a pre-nup, in order to lock in additional social security, Obamacare, and tax benefits.

[Gene Eric]

>> No one should be forced to participate in immorality.

Or the illusion two dicks form a biological union.

[Hugin]

Folks on FR may love it, but for the vast majority of Americans this will cement the media image of him as a kook. He can pretty much kiss his slim chance of getting elected goodbye.

[TalBlack]

Folks on FR may love it, but for the vast majority of Americans this will cement the media image of him as a kook.

Dude, it isn’t 2015 any more. They’ve pulled off the mask and dismissed the Constitution LITERALLY. “Kook”. So the hell what?

[48th SPS Crusader]

The only way you lose a battle is not to engage in it. If this Nation is to be saved from the whiney sorry assed politic sheep and judges that are dragging it into the toilet we need someone like Cruz to stand up and fight back.

[bert]

the clerk is where the rubber meets the road

the clerk is the person that must declare and then enforce Christian scruples

[Principled]

States should push back precisely to protect the clerk’s religious freedoms. Indeed this entire argument has been about protecting the rights of individuals.

In the absence of protection from the State, of course the individual should refuse to choose to violate his own right to religious freedom.

[caseinpoint]

“The clerk is the person that must declare and then enforce Christian scruples”

Um, no. Not a good idea. The clerk has administrative duties as an officer of the government. He or she must follow the law as it exists, not as they want it to exist. In private life, clerks are free to do whatever their scruples say but should not overlay their religious opinions in picking and choosing what laws to obey. If they have a problem with their duties, there are other ways to challenge it, legally, or they may resign if they find their duties repugnant to their personal moral codes.

Otherwise imagine what might happen in similar situations. Should a Muslim government official be permitted to refuse to issue liquor licenses? Perhaps a fervent environmentalist might refuse to issue driver licenses. A pacifist official refuse to allow gun ownership. We are a nation of laws or we are chaos. What we do in our private lives is our business. What we do as government representatives is another matter entirely.

[bert]

I won’t disagree but Senator Cruz made the statement and he was correct. The Clerk is where queers and Christians engage

[PlateOfShrimp]

What you said.

It’s time to pull the goalie.

[Vaduz]

Obama&Co + MSM = Religious Oppression

[DaveA37]

“Why should we involve a clerk of the court?”..........

Because, the Clerk of Courts is bound by the law and they are the ones who issue marriage licenses, failing to do so puts them subject to lawsuits agains’t themselves and their counties. Cruz SUGGESTED and ENCOURAGED the Cty. Clerks to go against the law. I believe MOST Cty. Clerks would prefer NOT to issue licenses to gays.