Cruz on Apple CEO Tim Cook being gay: 'Personal decision'

The Hill ^ | October 30, 2014 | Peter Sullivan

[BeadCounter]

I like how he calls it a “personal choice” vs. those saying “born-that-way”.

[Albion Wilde]

The solution is to address the actual problem; Liberal control of News and Entertainment. We need to destroy their monopoly.

While everything you say is true, it can't be accomplished in time for the next couple of elections. So for people to think they can "teach the GOP a lesson" by staying home and not voting, they are math-impaired, to say the least. Our country is almost completely taken over by an interlocking web of nefarious leftist plans that they have frog-marched through every institution of society since 1948. There is NO TIME LEFT to accomplish secondary goals like influencing the party system by not voting.

We are in a grave, grave crisis in which every vote against the outright evil of the DEMOCRAT/PROGRESSIVE/SOCIALIST POWER STRUCTURE is greatly needed, even if the opponent is insufficiently conservative. The elections of 2014 and 2016 are two battles in which not enough ammunition is better than none.

[neocon1984]

No. Are you?

You did not answer my question. I answered yours.

[nascarnation]

Great post! Love your common sense approach.

[Steve_Seattle]

"If left to the states the courts will ram it down our throats. No way will they settle for queers being married in one state, and not in another."

The Constitution requires that states recognize contracts (such as marriage) legally undertaken in other states, even when state laws differ. That's why people went to Vegas to get married - the laws in Vegas were more lax. Then they went back to their home states where their marriages had to be recognized. That's why a driver's license issued in one state is valid in another, until you move and your old license expires. I detest gay marriage, but to involve the federal courts pro or con is - in my view - unconstitutional.

[Albion Wilde]

The Democrats win because the RINO’s refuse to support conservatives.

If only it were that simple.

[WayneS]

Please be so kind as to list the book(s), chapter(s) and verse(s) from the Holy Bible which indicate(s) that homosexual behavior is a more egregious sin than others such as stealing, murder, adultery, etc.

[RginTN]

What is wrong with being a purist and expecting our politicians to adhere to the Conservative principles they promote that is be purists too?

Compromise has moved the GOP to the left yet its the purists who are criticized?!

[WayneS]

Well said. Thank you.

[cynwoody]

Cruz is running for President, not for Pope.

[Albion Wilde]

You can't win converts to Christianity by trying to shame or disdain people. That is the role of the evangelizing Christian in their everyday life in America.

I misspoke; I meant that evangelizing in love is the role of Christians, not that shaming is the role of Christians.

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[bigbob]

I want to see if FReepers ream Cruz a new one for this like some did to Scott Walker when he said that after the Supreme Court decision “gay marriage is a dead issue”.

All politicians have to pick their battles. I’m fine with both statements.

[BigEdLB]

Mr Ted is too smart for the lefty drones in the MSM...Common sense is a rare commodity

[Albion Wilde]

What is wrong with being a purist and expecting our politicians to adhere to the Conservative principles they promote that is be purists too? Compromise has moved the GOP to the left yet its the purists who are criticized?!

There is a time and a place for everything -- even Ecclesiastes says so. The coming two elections are not the time for purism. They are a time for hanging on to the shred of a republic we have left by the skin of our teeth so we can hope to even begin turning this huge ship around.

[WayneS]

Good point.

After all, Jesus did tell us to render unto caesar (the government) that which is caesar’s, and unto the Lord that which is the Lord's.

I take that to be an admonition against theocratic government, and I will continue to do so until someone comes up with a convincing argument otherwise.

[WayneS]

No worries.

Even without the clarification I understood what you meant.

[GeronL]

Voting for people who have not one iota of interest in preserving this republic is supposed to do that??

[DiogenesLamp]

I'm pretty certain that I made no suggestion that people shouldn't vote. I certainly think people should vote, but I also think we need to be working to starve the media beasts who are causing most of our problems.

I urge people to stop buying any American Made movies unless you know they benefit a conservative group or cause. ("God's not Dead" being an example of what I mean.)

Cut your cables, don't watch their broadcasts, stop doing business with companies that promote immoral things. (Apple would seem an obvious example at this point.)

And Vote.

[RginTN]

The country is on the edge of disaster now is not the time to vote for compromisers.

Your point may be justifiable in the 80s.