Posted on 09/20/2015 1:49:44 PM PDT by VinL
It would be unconstitutional to disqualify a Muslim from the presidency because of religion, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said Sunday.
“You know, the Constitution specifies there shall be no religious test for public office and I am a constitutionalist,” the Texas senator said during the taping of “Iowa Press” at Iowa Public Television.
Cruz was about Ben Carson’s televised statement that Islam is inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution. “I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that,” Carson said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.
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Cruz also referred to the ongoing controversy raised in the media over whether Donald Trump should have corrected a man who incorrectly stated at a rally that President Obama is a Muslim and not an American. “My view, listen. The president’s faith is between him and God. What I’m going to focus on is his public policy record,” Cruz said.
One area in which Cruz did not mind excluding Muslims, however, was from the ranks of refugees from Syria seeking asylum in the United States. He said they should settle in other Middle Eastern countries, citing concerns that some of the purported refugees may actually be terrorists.
“I think the Christians are a very different circumstance because Christians are being persecuted, they are being persecuted directly for their faith and the Obama administration has abandoned Middle East Christians,” Cruz said.
Several other Republican presidential candidates weighed in on the issue of Syrian refugees Saturday during a forum in Des Moines. Mike Huckabee agreed with Cruz that the U.S. should exclude Muslim refugees but accept Christians. Rick Santorum argued that even the Christians should be assisted in the region so they can return home when the violence ends.
Following his visit at Iowa Public Television, Cruz visited with restaurant-goers at the Machine Shed Restaurant in Urbandale for more light-hearted discussions while Iowans enjoyed their morning brunch.
Read that : “nevertheless, our founders’ prescience in at least trying to preclude foreign enemy agents from getting ahold of the presidency - has certainly been vindicated these last six years”
I think Cruz was probably correct. I don’t think he would vote for a muzzie though.
Perhaps Cruz and Trump BOTH know what they are doing and none of us are aware of it. So lets all get a damn grip.
All day we are knee jerking.
Hardly.
Cruz acknowledged the Constitutionality of a Muslim running for office. As much as we might not like it, they can't be barred from doing so. That's the law of the land.
Trump said that he would have absolutely no problem considering a Muslim for his own cabinet and/or his own ticket.
You can bet all the money you have Cruz wouldn't do that.
Well, we have had a Moslem President for the past 7 years so I guess it is a moot point, right?
voila!!
Careful reading of political material in not the norm in an age of deep distrust and.
were ALL WHIZZED off at the status quo..but it doesnt make sense to INVENT stuff..and pretend we “get” what “Isnt”
In order to run for office?????
That’s too bad. Oh, well. We’ve already had a muslim as president.
TPA / TPP, and the
Iran Arms Treaty?
he was asked a question..... he answered it correctly succinctly and NONPOLITICALLY
the constitution is NOT a Political DOCUMENT!...YET
Nope, he said he would consider it. Does not mean you would hire one.
Read what was actually said at the link.
It wasn’t till about 1790 or so that we lifted the restrictions on Catholic immigration into this country and it wasn’t till 1963 that we elected a Catholic president.
We can play all the word games we want but by all constitutional standards there are no religious restrictions or requirements to run for president.
Oh brudda, the the anti Cruz sharks think blood is in the water.
I am defending Cruz and Trump.
Citizens are not bound by the Constitution’s religious tests. Period, end of story.
I’m disappointed to see so many on this thread defend a point of view (not Cruz’s) that could be used to deny CHRISTIANS the right to run for public office.
I would think you would want to wait for the exact question posed to Cruz— before you decide he was “off point”.
If Cruz is thinking that a Koran Thumpting Muslim would make great President in America, then that’s Strike 4.
Or a lying backstabbing rapist and sexual opportunist with a bent wanger ...
BOTH those horses are out of the barn.. and Cruz voted for neither..
Cruz is a Constitutional scholar and lawyer. He's been studying our founding documents since the age of fourteen.
Either it is, or it isn't, legal for a Muslim to run for the presidency. It is. Acknowledging that simple truth is not "pandering".
You think he should have lied?
"Up to about this point I kinda liked Cruz but after this, he's dead to me."
Heartbreaking.
“Why did he go there???”
Because there is a natural law, missed by Einstein and all the philosophers, that forces politicians to make comments on any detail that floats by so that they may prove to everyone just what stunning intellects they have. Everyone else calls it “borrowing trouble”, “fishing in troubled waters” or “poking the bear”.
“I am a Constitutionalist” part — I won’t go there.
LOL
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