Ted Cruz: ‘I’m Not Running to be Pastor-In-Chief’

Breitbart ^ | 2/12/2016 | MICHELLE FIELDS

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) hit back at critics who say that his tone is overly religious by assuring them that he's "not running to be 'Pastor-In-Chief."

In an interview with CBN, Cruz said that a president shouldn't act as a pastor, and that if he becomes president he will, "be a president of everybody, president of every faith..."

"I'm not running to be 'Pastor-In-Chief.' It is not the calling of a political leader to deliver the salvation message. That is the calling of us as believers, it's the calling of a pastor but it's a different role to be a political leader."

Cruz was quick to point that he will not be ashamed of being a Christian.

"I am a Christian and the Word says if you are ashamed of Jesus He will be ashamed of you. I don't intend to have that conversation with my maker," Cruz said.

"My responsibility as president is to defend the constitutional rights of every American, to keep every American safe," he added.

[heights]

Of course not, he’s running to be the Seventh King!

[Neu Pragmatist]

Yes he is ... him and Beck are using religion to scare everyone into voting for Cruz ... Cruz and Beck are disgusting

[Sasparilla]

Things have become strange with Cruz since the Cruz/ Beck thing began

[datura]

[TornadoAlley3]

Must be some bad internal polling.

[moehoward]

That ship has sailed Ted.

[Neu Pragmatist]

Very strange ....they are weird

[Lurkinanloomin]

Good guess, because I was beginning to think he was....

[20yearsofinternet]

I'm a Trump first guy, and I think Cruz has stooped pretty low in some of his tactics (deceiving voters is particularly off-putting to me), but I'll give him credit, I think he answered the question pretty well here.

What I found most amusing, following through to the CBN story, was this tidbit:

You would think that would be a perfect match for evangelicals and so far, at least in Iowa, they have shown strong support. Can evangelicals in South Carolina duplicate that effort?

Hmmm... they seem to have skipped a state there. Wonder why? LOL

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

[SubMareener]

Here is a pretty complete discussion of the Dominion Heresy that the Cruz family is preaching, oops, sorry, Daddy is preaching, sonny is leading.

www.discernment-ministries.org/ChristianImperialism.htm

[ExGeeEye]

The evangelical population turned out 100% for him.

Both of them...

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

Wow.

[ExGeeEye]

Dangit...

The evangelical population of New Hampshireturned out 100% for him....

Both of them.

[20yearsofinternet]

It’s even better than that. Trump won the evangelical vote in NH. :)

[datura]

But there is no way Ted was ever influenced by such preaching, having grown up with it!! /s

[Neu Pragmatist]

How does this mesh with Beck’s weird pro-Mormon stance ? ...this is a very weird union ...

[sparklite2]

I’ve always wondered about that. Why should polling sanctioned by the campaign be more or less accurate that public polling? If you frame the questions such that the responses will be more favorable than neutral to your candidate, who are you kidding but yourself?

[Kudsman]

Suuuuurrree. The tales grow taller on down the line. He should stick to his day job and keep on lawyering IMO.