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Posted on 05/18/2015 9:25:02 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, the Republican presidential candidate who believes that the gay “jihad” may soon lead to the imprisonment of pastors and the end of free speech, told a right-wing radio host yesterday that the legalization of same-sex marriage represents the greatest threat to religious liberty in the history of the United States.
“We are seeing today profound threats to religious liberty in America, I think the greatest threats we’ve ever seen,” Cruz told conservative author and talk radio host Eric Metaxas.
Cruz said that the fights over “religious freedom” laws in Indiana and Arkansas were “heartbreaking” examples of how the Democratic Party has “gotten so extreme and so radical in its devotion to mandatory gay marriage that they’ve decided there’s no room for the religious liberty protected under the First Amendment.”
He added that while “Democrats joined with big business in vilifying an effort to protect our religious liberty,” too many Republican leaders and presidential candidates “ran and hid in the hills.”
“We’re a nation that was founded by men and women who were fleeing religious oppression and coming to seek out a land where everyone of us could worship God Almighty with all of our hearts, minds and souls, and that is under profound jeopardy today,” Cruz said.
Cruz later claimed that Solicitor General Donald Verrilli had said during last month’s Supreme Court marriage equality arguments that if marriage equality is legalized nationwide, the IRS will start denying tax-exempt status to churches. (In the exchange Cruz referred to, Verrilli had said nothing of the sort.)
“The next step on this,” he said, “is your church being told it now pays income taxes on the tithes that are given each week, that it is now singled out and discriminated against, that universities like Notre Dame or Georgetown and Brigham Young or any university that is founded as a Christian university, if it continues to follow biblical teachings on marriage, the federal government is asserting the power to discriminate and persecute them.” This led Metaxas to warn of “parallels” to what occured in Nazi Germany.
Metaxas seemed to be pleased with Cruz’s responses, especially compared to his GOP presidential rival Jeb Bush, whom Metaxas criticized for failing to forcefully denounce marriage equality and hiring “top people in his campaign who are very aggressively pro-same-sex-marriage.”
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Ted Cruz Ping! Unless, of course, one worships like a lefty...
That’s because religious freedom is the true target.
Onwe would have to be classed as one of the dumbest idiots or the most ignorant of the decade to not see how the homosexual agenda is threatening the freedom of religion which was the very basic founding of this country.
Many of us warned about this years ago only for liberals and libertarians to say their agenda was no big deal and it all started with their civil unions up in VT.
PING
"General Verrilli: You know, I don’t think I can answer that question without knowing more specifics, but it’s certainly going to be an issue. I don’t deny that. I don’t deny that, Justice Alito. It is it is going to be an issue."
Yes, it's going to be an issue. And we've already seen what side the Fed Leviathan is going to come down on in the Little Sisters of the Poor case.
And we've already seen how the IRS deals w/ political enemies.
Anybody that thinks religious liberty will survive a wrong decision by USSC is naïve.
Bingo! Get rid of Christianity then you can do anything you want. What I don’t understand is how Islam works into the mix. I can only guess they’ll be exempt.
It may be obvious but there is no other candidate who will say it so clearly and not backtrack when called out on it... oh and he will be called out; probably by one of the wannabees most likely they will all pile on, Cruz will then with a smile slap them all about the head and shoulders.
CRUZ or LOSE 2016!
>> That’s because religious freedom is the true target.
Exactly.
That’s because religious freedom is the true target.
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You are absolutely right about that!
Liberals are too stupid to understand that they won’t be exempt from Islam.
“Verrilli had said nothing of the sort”
Verrilli didn’t deny it when posed by the judges. If gay marriage is protected, then churches lose their tax exempt status same as those that are racist.
We live in the age of marketing. Most folks view "New and Improved" claims with a healthy amount of skepticism, when it comes to consumer products. If only they would exercise appropriate cynicism in regards to the ideas they accept from the marketing campaigns of cliche.
The Greedy Rich...has become a mindset. Gay riots to Sister Boom Boom to AIDS to Will and Grace enabled tolerance, then equality, now supremacy.
It's been obvious for years.
There is little doubt that once the gaystapo has established gay marriage as a right guaranteed under the Constitution that they will quickly attempt to force churches and clergy to participate in their weddings. When they balk, they will call for their tax exempt status to be removed.
I can live alongside same sex couples, but I don't want to know about whether their sexuality is deviant. Just keep it to themselves.
Civilization cannot exist in the cesspool we now have. There has to be a standard that's looked up to as the norm. I think a majority of US citizens support that view if it's expressed in such a way that ones privacy and rights are protected. It isn't difficult....gays have their rights, they have them without marriage being destroyed. They should just SHUT UP.
The legitamization of homosexual marriage is a threat to our society and nation. Once you change public opinion and “law” and make one perversion acceptable, someone will move that on to the next perversion and the next and then you start changing what is a crime and what is not. Society fails and America ends.......
What I like most about Ted Cruz — he isn’t afraid to enrage the leftists by pointing out what is readily apparent.
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