Posted on 05/20/2015 9:27:40 AM PDT by VinL
Is someone projecting? Just a little?
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a resident of the extreme right political fringe who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, told reporters in Texas on Tuesday that the left is obsessed with sex because he keeps getting questions about marriage laws and the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans.
“Is there something about the left — and I am going to put the media in this category — that is obsessed with sex?” Cruz said.
He went on to borrow a particularly mindless comment from his colleague, Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who said in April that gay-rights advocates should get some “perspective” because gay people are executed in Iran. Mr. Cruz took it one completely illogical step farther.
“ISIS is executing homosexuals — you want to talk about gay rights?” he said. “This week was a very bad week for gay rights because the expansion of ISIS, the expansion of radical, theocratic, Islamic zealots that crucify Christians, that behead children and that murder homosexuals — that ought to be concerning you far more than asking six questions all on the same topic.”
Let’s just toss that remark in the dustbin of campaign foolishness, and focus on his first comment — that asking about laws that ban same-sex marriages, and laws that ensure that gay Americans do not suffer discrimination, represents an obsession with sex.
Perhaps Mr. Cruz doesn’t get this, but fighting for gay rights and marriage equality has nothing to do with sex. Would Mr. Cruz say the same thing about the constant discussion among Republicans about the “sanctity” of heterosexual marriage and relationships between men and women?
If anything, it is the right that is strangely devoted
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Buzzzzz....wrong!!!! Does Vin sound Spanish to you?
Don’t give up...try again. -:)
“Buzzzzz....wrong!!!! Does Vin sound Spanish to you?”
One of my very good, Cuban-American friends is named “Vicente” but everyone calls him “Vin” or “Vinny” because his dad is “Vin”. ;-)
I suppose, however, that you must be Italian. ;-)
See, I had every confidence in you—knew if you kept on trying, you could do it. -:)
Yes, I am a proud, unhyphenated American constitutionalist, of Italian descent.
“See, I had every confidence in you—knew if you kept on trying, you could do it. -:)”
Well, that could be because I speak several languages. In alpha order, so as not to offend, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish are very closely related to the original Latin so that I knew it had to be one of those. With a good foundation in Latin it is relatively easy to translate between all of those or at the very least, get the ‘gist’ of what is being said. ;-)
No problem, I read a lot- so, it’s easy to share. And, in that I’ve notice that you defend Ted Cruz, here’s a great article from 2014 written by a liberal, Jeff Toobin. I can’t post it because FR doesn’t allow New Yorker articles, but I’m sure you’ll enjoy it.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/30/the-absolutist-2
...and don’t call those fowl “chicks” or you’ll anger the feminists, PETA, or worse... the PETA feminists!!! ;-)
Wow! That was a mini biography and I enjoyed it very much!
I smell fear emanating from the NY Times, just like Salon and Slate.
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Nay-— that’s just the normal stench of failed arguments.
Rush Limbaugh was sort of talking about this today talking about the only reason Hillary is being considered is her sex parts, nothing above the shoulders to consider like intellect.
The left is so obsessed with sex, they give mental illness a pass if it’s sexual.
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