Posted on 10/30/2014 12:23:27 PM PDT by BurningOak
"Those are his personal choices. I’ll tell you, I love my iPhone," Cruz said.
"Listen, Tim Cook makes his personal decisions, and that is his life. My focus is on the constitutional question of who has the authority to make decisions," he later added.
Cruz said that marriage is a "question for the states" because of the country's federalist system.
"This is something we’ve seen over and over again, which is the federal government and federal courts deciding they don’t trust the people," Cruz said. "They look down on the people, they don’t trust us to make judgments about our own lives, so the federal government and federal courts are going to step in and impose their own policy preferences."
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I like how he calls it a “personal choice” vs. those saying “born-that-way”.
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.
No. Are you?
You did not answer my question. I answered yours.
Great post! Love your common sense approach.
If only it were that simple.
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.
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?!
Well said. Thank you.
Cruz is running for President, not for Pope.
I misspoke; I meant that evangelizing in love is the role of Christians, not that shaming is the role of Christians.
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.
Mr Ted is too smart for the lefty drones in the MSM...Common sense is a rare commodity
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.
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.
No worries.
Even without the clarification I understood what you meant.
Voting for people who have not one iota of interest in preserving this republic is supposed to do that??
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.
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.
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