The stage is set.
Posted on 08/21/2015 2:56:52 PM PDT by Isara
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), a candidate for 2016 Republican presidential nomination, hosts a “Rally for Religious Liberty” at the Community Choice Credit Union Convention Center in Des Moines, Iowa.
Airing LIVE Friday, Aug 21 6:30pm EDT on C-SPAN.org
Thanks.
Dick and Betty Odgaard: A Mennonite couple who was fined $5,000 by the Iowa Civil Rights Commission late last year for refusing to provide service to a gay couple who wanted to get married in their wedding venue, a former church that the Odgaards had converted into a for-profit art gallery, flower shop, and bistro. Rather than open their doors to gays and lesbians for future ceremonies, the Odgaards announced they’d stop holding weddings of any kind earlier this year and ultimately closed their venue last month.
Barronelle Stutzman: A Washington state florist who was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine—plus $1 in court costs and fees—earlier this year after a judge ruled that she had violated the state’s anti-discrimination and consumer protection laws by refusing to provide flowers for the wedding of one of her longtime customers, who she knew to be gay.
Aaron and Melissa Klein: Oregon bakers who have been ordered by the state’s labor commission to pay $135,000 in damages to a lesbian couple for whom the Kleins refused to make a wedding cake. The bakers have appealed the ruling and, according to the Oregonian, it could take “months or even years before it reaches the appellate court.”
Blaine Adamson: The owner of a Kentucky print shop found to be in violation of a city law that bans discrimination based on—you guessed it—a person's sexual orientation after the store refused to make t-shirts for the Lexington Pride Festival in 2012 for a local LGBTQ group. A circuit county judge, though, overturned the 2014 ruling earlier this year.
Phillip Monk: A retired senior master sergeant in the Air Force who claims that he was abruptly reassigned to a new position in 2013 after he had a heated disagreement with his commanding officer over how to reprimand a subordinate who had told trainees about his own religious objections to homosexuality.
Kelvin Cochran: A former Atlanta fire chief who was forced to step down earlier this year by the city’s mayor after Cochran self-published a book that described homosexuality as a “sexual perversion” that he compared to bestiality, copies of which he had distributed to several city employees. Mayor Kasim Reed maintains that his decision to terminate Cochran wasn’t based on the fire chief’s religious beliefs but instead on a variety of other reasons, including that he didn’t have clearance from City Hall to publish the book in the first place.
You’re welcome!
I like Ted, but I think it’s going to take Trump to begin to turn things around.
The idea of a Trump/Cruz 2016 ticket causes me a lot of joy.
We could easily get 16 great years out of it.
By then, the U. S. would be so much better than it is now.
He filled the area set aside for political speeches at the Iowa state fair this morning.
Thanks, must see TV
The stage is set.
Anyone getting the feed, I’m just getting colored lines
I heard that c-span did this to Ted Cruz this morning at the Iowa State Fair. They broadcast part of his speech, then cut to Kosich's speech.
I’m here. Good crowd building.
Video is at status awaiting now, has it started
GRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I get so upset at religious persecution!!!!
Yep, cspan having bad luck with Cruz today
Trump helped "turn around" my state by donating $25,000 to that criminal POS Terry McAuliffe's gubernatorial run. Thanks in part to "the Donald", one of the sleaziest leftwingers known to man sits in my governor's mansion.
I wouldn't vote for liberal Trump under any circumstances. I'll stick with Cruz, the solid Constitutional conservative.
I’m sticking with CRUZ too...
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