Posted on 09/27/2014 10:29:39 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Neither of my parents were people of faith at the time. Neither of them had a relationship with Christ. Both of my parents drank far too much; both of them had serious problems with alcohol, he said. And when I was three years old, my father decided he didnt want to be married anymore. And he didnt want a 3-year-old son. So he got on a plane and left.
The audience was dumbfounded by the revelation a rare moment in a conference audience that is familiar with cheering speeches spent attacking Obama and the political establishment in Washington.
But the story didnt end there.
Cruz pointed out that thanks to an invitation from a colleague, his father attended a Baptist Church after he left, which inspired him to return to his family in Canada.
He gave his life to Jesus, he said. And he went and bought an airplane ticket and flew back to Calgary to rejoin my mother and to rejoin his son. So when anyone asks is faith real, is a relationship with Jesus real, I can tell you if it were not for my father giving his life to Christ, I would have been raised by a single mother.
The rest of the story, however, is familiar. Ted Cruzs father Rafael is now a Baptist preacher and preaches the gospel of getting American citizens involved with the future of their values and their country.
As the son of a pastor, Cruz appeared at home with the Christian activists at the Values Voters Summit, delivering his speech while pacing across the stage with the look and tempo of a preacher. The darkness he
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