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Posted on 07/21/2015 8:50:27 AM PDT by Isara
Announces August 21st Rally for Religious Liberty in Des Moines, IA
HOUSTON, Texas – Today, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, released a video telling the story of Dick and Betty Odgaard, the Iowa couple who recently had to shut down their business as a result of the Iowa Civil Rights Commission’s efforts to force them to host a same-sex wedding ceremony in violation of their religious beliefs. The video highlights the Odgaards’ experience with government-sanctioned religious intolerance, as well as their reaction to being targeted. Cruz will host a special event in Des Moines, IA, next month featuring the Odgaards.
“It was devastating to hear that we were bigots, we were homophobes, we were haters,” Betty Odgaard recounts. “We just kept thinking, ‘they don’t know us.’ How can they be calling us all these horrible, horrible things when they don’t know what’s in our hearts? We don’t have any hatred toward gay people.”
As a result of the suit, the Odgaards stopped hosting weddings at their event venue, which all but destroyed their business, leading them to the decision to close their doors at the end of the summer.
“And that has been quite painful,” tells Dick Odgaard. “As a result of that, the business has declined. We just can’t support it. So we’re within — by the end of August we’ll be shutting our doors.”
New data show Americans are strongly opposed to government forcing business owners to violate their deeply held religious beliefs. Nearly three out of five people (59%) now say that businesses with wedding-related services should not have to provide those services to same-sex couples, an increase of seven percent from April.
“Our country was founded by people who risked everything for religious liberty, free of the government getting in the way,” Cruz tells the Odgaards in the video. “And I want to thank both of you, number one, for taking a stand. But number two, for telling your story.
“Your story is powerful. Your story is inspirational and inspires me, and it inspires millions of believers, believers of many faiths across this country who want to live in a land where we’re free to live out according to our faith and our convictions and it’s not second guessed by the government stepping in and saying, we don’t share your faith and we’re going to shut you down.”
Cruz will host a “Rally for Religious Liberty” in Des Moines, Iowa on August 21 at 6:30 pm CT. The event will take place at the Iowa Events Center and feature the Odgaards as special guests. Registration is open to the public here. Media should contact Alexa Henning to RSVP at alexa (at) tedcruz.org.
The full video can be viewed here.
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You’d likely be more able to pull that off in rural counties.
Any burg that qualifies as a “city” probably isn’t going to vote it in.
“We just kept thinking, ‘they don’t know us.’ How can they be calling us all these
horrible, horrible things when they don’t know what’s in our hearts? We don’t have any hatred toward gay people.”
One of the reasons why we lose. A lot of "good ol' fashioned Conservative American People" are very naive as to the viciousness of the modern Liberal. They need to wake up.
Well then, sanctuary counties, or whatever polity can do it. I believe there might be counties across the land which would be amenable.
I like the way you think!
Sanctuary cities only work because the government won't go in and prosecute. Can you imagine this administration not dropping on people like the Odgaards like a ton of bricks?
I must give credit to the left for the idea, I only wish we had some leadership which could be as comfortable in flouting the law in the name of civil disobedience, as theirs are.
And then the people targeted should just point to the sanctuary cities which have for years openly and unapologetically flouted the law of the land. It probably wouldn’t help in the courtroom, but it might make the case in the court of public opinion-either both have to go, or neither.
We have religious freedom in this country. BUT - it’s only for those who belong to the ‘right’ religion.
Muslims are allowed to have multiple wives (and beat them too) under Sharia law.
Muslims are able to opt out of Obamacare. It’s against their religion.
Muslims can get their mortgage payments made by others (using our tax dollars) because paying interest is against their religion.
I think the court of public opinion has pretty well taken their sides on the issue. Those who view it as discrimination against homosexuals will never take the side of the Odgaards. Those who view it as religious discrimination will remain with the Odgaards. There isn't a whole lot of middle room.
The case wouldn’t be on the positions of sodomite marriage/illegal “amnesty”, it would be on whether one side can flout law but the other can’t, in the name of their cause. Surely there are enough semi-rational people who could at least see the unfairness of that, no matter what theirmpositions on the issues.
Ted Cruz Ping! Conservatives tend to be law abiding citizens. Clearly this gives the left a certain advantage since they are deciding which laws they will obey.
That’s a shame right now, because being law-abiding is getting us steamrolled by those who don’t play by the rules.
And my personal belief is that if conservative Patriots reach the point where they are willing to break laws, the laws they break will result in a second armed revolution in this country.
Can the Odgaards announce that their wedding chapel is a “Sanctuary” that protects believers from assault by the State of Iowa?
hmmm...
Must be homotaedetic....
Maybe it is wrong... but I personally don’t care that much when leftists choose to follow their sinful nature and engage in a perverted life styles. If they want to quietly choose to waste their lives and answer for it in hell that is their choice. We have acquaintances like this who we have befriended and try to be good examples for. What makes me really angry is when they try to force their perversions on the rest of us to the point of destroying righteous peoples’ lives. At that point it is time to draw the line.
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