Ted Cruz: Gay Marriage Ruling Will Spark A ‘Raging Inferno’

During a Fourth of July celebration at the Rock Springs Church in Milner, Georgia, Ted Cruz lambasted the Supreme Court for its recent ruling on marriage equality.

Cruz hoped, however, that the court’s decision would prompt a massive backlash, in remarks posted by the conservative website Red Kudzu: “It is my hope that that marriage decision serves as a spark to start a fire that becomes a raging inferno and an awakening that sweeps this country as the body of Christ rise up to defend the values that have built America into this great nation that we are.”

He also noted that many Republican politicians responded to the decision by “publicly issuing critical statements and privately going in the backroom popping champagne and celebrating.”

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton

"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan

"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792

"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

Homosexuality is a’ behavior’ – and service is refused based on behavior all the time. Lawyers choose the clients they want to represent based on behavior – restaurants may choose not to allow smoking or alcohol (legal behaviors). Businesses impose dress codes on patrons and refuse to allow patrons who wear T-shirts containing messages that they see as repugnant. This is not just an issue for religious beliefs and we should not allow others to frame the argument as such. There are many secular arguments against gay marriage but it seems there is an agenda to frame this as merely archaic Christian intolerance. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. did not ask people to turn away from the Bible because of racial intoreance – he told them to turn ‘to’ the Bible in order to stop racial intoreance – and it worked.

America is now being asked to accept gay marriage as normal and healthy. No one - not Moses, Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, Aquinas, Gandhi, not the Bible or the Koran or any other sacred text, nor even a single anti-religious secular thinker of the Enlightenment -- ever advocated redefining marriage to include members of the same sex. Beyond this, to now say homosexual marriage is right is to say all secular and religious icons in our past were wrong. We are saying in a time of Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, and hotdog-crust-stuffed-pizza that we have reached an enlightenment no other culture before us ever attained - and that we can now proclaim that all the great thinkers throughout history were intolerant bigots due to the decision of 5 activist judges.

Childhood obesity is a behavior that society is trying to prevent do to heath reasons yet homosexual behavior also has very adverse health risks but now it will be taught as natural to school children – why?
We are being told that homosexual behavior is natural because it occurs in nature yet incest and rape occurs in nature at a much higher rate – so does the fact that it occurs in nature make it OK?
Since the military passed ‘Don’t ask – don’t tell’ for homosexual behavior rape has gone up drastically and men are reporting more cases of sexual abuse than women.
There is a large number of homosexuals in Hollywood where pedophilia has been a problem. ( Same is true for Catholic priests )
Busness owners are allowed to not hire smokers due to increased health costs but the same argument can be made for not hiring homosexuals.
Gay marriage can result in gay parenting. Adults who grew up in gay households are speaking out against gay marriage and explaining the adverse effect it had on their lives.

We cannot let people frame this as a ‘Christian’ problem. The current hate, hypocracy, and bigotry is not coming from Christians…

… even when military service was involuntary, we still made room for conscientious objectors who did not want to carry weapons. If we can allow people to exempt themselves from defending the country—which is the most important responsibility our government has—we can certainly allow people to exempt themselves from performing same-sex wedding ceremonies!
- Frank Turek

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