[highball]

I’m wondering why Cruz wants to take this oddly circuitous route, instead of a simple amendment to just ban gay marriage outright?

Because he knows what we all know, that the American public as a whole would never pass an amendment to ban it. So he's trying to pretend that there's a procedural way to get there.

This makes no sense, unless he wants to be seen as wanting to do something without actually doing anything at all.

That's exactly my worry. I have high hopes for him, but this sort of feel-good, do-nothing political stunt is making me wonder.

[mountainbunny]

Please see my post at 49 for references.

Ted Cruz is currently doing fund raising for the NRCC, which is doling out cash to openly gay candidates who are supporting gay marriage as part of their platform. They’ve been doling out the cash publicly in this way since at least last year, and Boehner has made very public statements about making inroads with women, minorities and gays. There is no way Cruz doesn’t know this, yet he’s fund raising for the very people who are run against what he says is a critical moral issue.

I find this disingenuous in the extreme. A circuitous way around the Constitution will never work, and he has to know that.

This is dismaying :(