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Unless you want to argue the two mommies or two daddies thing, the word “parents” is understood universally to mean a mommy and a daddy.

Sorry, another assumption by you.

The term applies to one parent that is a US Citizen and Two parents that are US Citizens.

Assumptions don't count when talking about constitutional concepts, only settled US Law.

You have none on your side, just your contention and opinion, that the founders meant two parents, when in fact, there is historical evidence, that at the time, all they were concerned with was the father, however, that as well, was never codified into US Constitutional law, much as the snippet you provided never codified into US Law that it takes both parents being US Citizens for someone to be "Natural Born".

Bottom line, until you can provide an instance where US Law or Supreme Court ruling states unequivocally that it takes 2 parents being US Citizens for someone to be eligible to be POTUS, all we are dealing with is YOUR opinion and assumptions, and until then, Senator Cruz is unquestionably eligible to be POTUS.

In other words, someone will have to take this to the Supreme Court and get the Supremes to weigh in on it to prove you are right.

Here is a respected Constitutional scholar/attorney with outstanding credentials that describes what a true natural born Citizen is that the founders intended to meet the requirements of Article 2 Section 1, the presidential clause. Dr. Herb Titus taught constitutional law, common law, and other subjects for nearly 30 years at five different American Bar Association approved law schools. From 1986 to 1993, he served as the founding Dean of the College of Law and Government in Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia. Prior to his academic career, he served as a Trial Attorney and a Special Assistant United States Attorney with the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and Kansas City, Missouri. Today he is engaged in a general practice with a concentration in constitutional strategy, litigation, and appeals.

Mr. Titus holds the J.D. degree (cum laude) from Harvard and the B.S. degree in Political Science from the University of Oregon from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He is an active member of the bar of Virginia and an inactive member of the bar of Oregon. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the United States Court of Claims, and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, Tenth, District of Columbia and Federal Circuits. His constitutional practice has taken him into federal district courts in Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Montana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Wyoming, and the District of Columbia and the state courts of Idaho, Texas and North Dakota.

Pay close attention and listen to both parts of what he has to say SoConPubbie. Both parts combined are just 6 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esiZZ-1R7e8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoaZ8WextxQ