You guessed it: gay businessmen who hosted Ted Cruz apologize for “poor judgement”

Hotair ^ | 04/27/2015 | Jazz Shaw

[SeekAndFind]

Remember when Ian Reisner and his partner – two gay businessmen from New York – hosted an event for Ted Cruz? Allahpundit wrote about the unusual meeting shortly after it happened and he made some rather prescient predictions.

[Cruz] says the NYT was trying to suggest that he was somehow compromised in his conservatism for socializing with pro-SSM gay constituents, but I don’t know. Maybe the Times’s angle was really that Weiderpass and Reisner were compromised in their gayness for socializing with Cruz. The media understands very well by now what happens to business owners who stray from gay-marriage orthodoxy. If you’re interested in enforcing that orthodoxy, as most of the press is, you’ll achieve more by making life hard for Weiderpass and Reisner than you will trying to make it hard for Cruz.

Well, that didn’t take long at all. The vultures descended on Reisner quickly and he’s now come out to apologize for the horrible mistake of actually talking to somebody who disagreed with him on a political issue.

Ian Reisner, one of the two gay hoteliers facing boycott calls for hosting an event for Senator Ted Cruz, who is adamantly opposed to gay marriage, apologized to the gay community for showing “poor judgment.”

Mr. Reisner put the apology on Facebook, where a page calling for a boycott of his properties, the gay-friendly OUT NYC hotel and his Fire Island Pines holdings, had gotten more than 8,200 “likes” by Sunday evening.

“I am shaken to my bones by the e-mails, texts, postings and phone calls of the past few days. I made a terrible mistake,” wrote Mr. Reisner.

The hoteliers were already losing business and facing what seemed to be a total blacklisting from their peers. And for what? For the sin of talking to someone… not even agreeing with them. Just allowing them to speak. The strange spectacle apparently included moments where the hosts and the Texas Senator actually agreed on some issues involving tax policy and Israel. Sure, they discussed gay marriage. The hosts are for it, Cruz is against it. That much was obvious before anyone served the first finger sandwiches. But even talking to “the enemy” was enough to bring out the activists with their pitchforks and torches, forcing Reisner to bend a knee in public and grovel to them.

And what effect did this have on Cruz? From what I can tell, not a thing. By this time, anyone who observes American politics even casually has become familiar with Cruz’s style. He will go anywhere at any time and talk to anyone about his values and vision for the country. He doesn’t scream or go crazy on them and seems to be polite to a fault while unswerving in his message. Cruz doesn’t have any problem going outside of his comfort zone because he doesn’t seem to have a comfort zone. He goes on Fox, CNN and MSNBC with equal enthusiasm. We saw him sit down with Mika Brzezinski, forcing her to later concede that he was a formidable contender. Frankly, I wouldn’t be shocked to see Cruz show up on Rachel Maddow’s show if she actually had the spine to take him on.

Have conservatives been abandoning Cruz in droves because he dares to take his message to people who disagree with him? Not that I’ve seen. And it would be suicidal to act that way. If he goes into the middle of Manhattan and talks to fifty gay marriage supporters and finds two people who like so many of his other policies that they wind up voting for him or tossing some cash to his campaign, that’s two less supporters for the eventual Democrat nominee and a few less dollars in their coffers. The opponent will not be defeated by a coup de grâce, but rather a thousand cuts.

Is Ted Cruz crazy? Crazy like a fox. And I don’t mean Fox News.

[Steve_Seattle]

"This is getting unreal."

"With regard to sexual stimulation between people of the same sex, this is a well-known way . . . of producing occult development. It has been practiced in the mysteries of all races and ages in the period of their decay, as the records of ethnologists and historians show.

Two [psychic] streams of the same type are called forth, and naturally find no channels of return, as the vehicles are both of the same polarity. These forces are therefore available for magical purposes; hence the extensive use of what are commonly called obscene practices as one of the easiest ways of obtaining power . . .

These things can be done, but there is a price to pay, the price being that the person so experimenting shall give himself over unreservedly to evil . . . It is even more tragic that young boys shall be foully made use of in black occultism. The public does not realize the significance of certain scandals that keep coming up, and therefore they do not take them sufficiently seriously."

--- Dion Fortune, from "The Esoteric Philosophy of Love and Marriage"

It has occurred to me - in line with the above quote - that the startling ascendency of homosexuality in the past few years night have an occult explanation, and that we are dealing with unseen forces as much as we are with human beings. Homosexuals may not even be creating psychic force deliberately, but there is no denying that some sort of terrible power seems to have been unleashed.

[longfellow]

Fagwa.

[Unam Sanctam]

To liberals, discussion means they keep talking until everyone submits or cowers in silence.

[Moonman62]

Waking up with your prized horse’s head in your bed (or the equivalent) can do a lot to change your mind.

[clamper1797]

gay businessmen who hosted Ted Cruz apologize for “poor judgement”

For hosting a Ted Cruz event or for being gay ?

[henkster]

This is what fascism looks like.

[acad1228]

[ConservativeDude]

maybe im a homophobe, but the guys in the picture look...well...really, really gay.

[RaginRak]

GayNazis

[ConservativeDude]

I read the reviews at Amazon of the book you quote.

Predictably, many of the reviewers say how awesome the book is, but how obviously time bound the author’s views on homosexuality are....of course.

[VinL]

2nd, they’ll all come around- He’s the Grandmaster.

“Ted Cruz Campaign Battles ‘Intolerant’ Boycott of Gay Donors ... (Brilliance of Cruz!)”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3282819/posts

From the NY Times:

“Nobody was better at setting traps,” said Austan D. Goolsbee, a Yale debater who became a leading economist for President Obama. He recalled Mr. Cruz’s attempts to control debates with carefully constructed arguments that always seemed to anticipate his opponents’ rebuttals.:

[ForYourChildren]

Think Sodom and Gomorrah.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Predictably, many of the reviewers say how awesome the book is, but how obviously time bound the author’s views on homosexuality are....of course."

Of course. Actually, her views on homosexuality comprise a very small part of the book, not much more than the passage I quoted. But the idea that homosexual activity generates some sort of occult power has interested me since I first heard about it. The "swish" gay stereotype masks the fact that there is a hyper-masculine form of homosexuality, and that many homosexuals in that latter group have achieved positions of great power in society.

I once worked for that kind of homosexual, and he was ex-military, buff, wound very tight, mostly humorless, and scared the crap out of me. You did NOT want to get on his bad side.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Don’t cross the Gaystapo.

[SharpRightTurn]

The Gaystapo strikes again. They seek to close down all discussion or contacts that challenge the Pink Mafia agenda. And more and more people and businesses are buckling.

[SoConPubbie]

    Ted Cruz Ping!

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    CRUZ or LOSE!

[fwdude]

Personally, I’m deeply disappointed that Cruz would stoop so low as to ally with these society-destroying sodomites.

[Vaquero]

I know conservative(in many ways) “gay” people, who don’t want marriage, don’t want kids and don’t want to be in the military.
They don’t hate the closet and prefer it in there. They know they’re on the wrong side of society, don’t want to change but don’t want exposure.
I suppose they might call themselves ‘log cabin’ republicans(though that name is wrong in so many ways).

The activists are just another Marxist ploy as discussed in Congress 1963

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595013/posts

And blatantly printed in Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals

[luvie]

Gay AND cowardly. How stunning! /sarc

[Morpheus2009]

IMHO, which agrees with cripplecreek, Cruz did this on purpose, just to let people see how the homosexual communities react to their own attempting to engage in discussion with someone that they disagree with. FWIW, the two homosexual men admit that they disagreed with Ted Cruz and just wanted to tell him their sides of the issues, but simply even just talking incites wrath. This is hateful beyond reason.