Posted on 06/30/2014 3:49:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz is taking heat for his anti-gay views and vocal opposition to marriage equality by none other than a fellow Republican figure. Prominent Republican lawyer, Ted Olson, who is a strong supporter of LGBT rights, thought Cruz's comments on marriage equality were "very, very sad."
Cruz had a lot to say to the crowds at the Texas GOP convention about the "threat" that is gay marriage. His speech appeared on an article of The New Yorker (emphasis mine):
"Marriage is under assault," Ted Cruz said to the crowd. "It is under assault in a way that is pervasive. We're seeing marriage under assault in the courts, including, sadly, the Supreme Court of the United States. It struck down the California marriage laws. California had a referendum. They asked the voters of California, 'Do you want marriage to be a traditional marriage between one man and one woman?' And the voters of California -- those crazy right-wing kooks -- said, 'Yes, now that you mention it, we like marriage to be between one man and one woman!' Went to the U.S. Supreme Court, and the U.S. Supreme Court said, 'You can't say that,' and struck it down. You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution."
Olson thought Ted Cruz's comments on gay marriage made the junior Senator sound like he was stuck in the past. Specifically, in the 1960's, when supporters of interracial marriage bans spewed the same arguments Cruz now reiterates against gay marriage.
Remarks by Olson and video below the jump.
Ted Olson's remarks on Ted Cruz (emphasis mine):
It's the same sort of thing that people said forty-some years ago when the Supreme Court overturned the laws of 17 states, supported by two-thirds of the population of the United States, that made it a felony to marry someone of a different race. That case, called Loving v. Virginia, is a landmark in the jurisprudence of the SC, striking down as unconstitutional a law that would have prevented the president's mother and father from getting married and being in Virginia at the time that he was born.
It's a sad thing when people don't understand that the people cannot vote away the rights of minorities, that people cannot engraft into their constitution provisions that discriminate against a segment of our society - whether that be persons of a particular race or nationality, or laws that discriminate against women. We've had hundreds and hundreds of laws that have discriminated against women over the years that the Supreme Court has struck down. Ted Cruz is just plain wrong about that and it's unfortunate because that is not and should not be the future of the Republican Party.
Let's hope one-term Cruz will get the hint.
Olson later appeared on Huffpost Live arguing LGBT rights is the civil rights issue of our times. Take a look below:
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
I think George W. Bush would agree.
As one who was there and heard those involved, I find this an insult to those who made the Movement a success, black and white. Almost all of the blacks of Mississippi who were involved at great risk would not agree with Ted.
Did not know that.
I had read her book that summer before 9-11.
Always thought of her as one of the Patriots. Ted - meh.
A non-celibate homosexual BY DEFINITION is engaging in specific lifestyle that, incidentally, is a Biblical sin. Any homosexual must DECLARE that he or she is homosexual, otherwise, in the course of normal events, no one would likely know the person was homosexual anymore than they would know if the person liked broccoli or butternut squash!
Since when is it "anti-gay" to oppose forced-by-government COOPERATION with a DECLARED LIFESTYLE? When the same "anti-gay" person would say, "It's none of my business" if a local baker bakes a cake for a pretend homosexual 'wedding' or if a local business owner decides to extend spousal benefits to homosexual employees -- just don't expect me to do the same." How is that "anti gay," exactly?
And Ted Olson is a Republican! A Republican who apparently believes that it is government's job to FORCE all Americans to accommodate pretend homosexual "marriage" as if it was the same as genuine marriage between man and woman!
WAY TOO MANY Republicans, from Romney to Olson to Cochran to McConnell, advocate the very things, such as using government to FORCE me to accommodate open homosexuals, that I've been voting Republican all of my adult life to PREVENT!
One more sign that the Republican party is in its death throes. I wish it wasn't, but if wishes were fishes, we'd have some fried.
I seriously doubt Barbara would have approved of Ted’s opinion!!!
If God found sodomy to be an abomination in Leviticus...chances are He feels the same way now.
Just saying...
Since you are a friend of Ted Olson’s can you tell us what is wrong with him?
The wrong Olson was on that plane on 9-11.
I don’t understand how any real conservative would ever marry a flaming liberal. Liberalism is founded on the rejection of both God & natural law.
“You know that your bodies are parts of the body of Christ. Shall I take a part of Christ’s body and make it part of the body of a prostitute? Impossible! Or perhaps you don’t know that the man who joins his body to a prostitute becomes physically one with her? The scripture says quite plainly, “The two will become one body.”
If I was a friend of yours how would you respond to someone’s question like yours?
It is easy to be judgmental when you are anonymous.
BUMP
It is really very simple: Olson is wrong; Cruz is right.
his wife was on the plane that crashed into the pentagon. She was a big time conservative and on many talk shows on TV and a beautiful woman...Ted has surprised me in his change with politics...
Ted Olsen should be more worried about the fact that GOD doesn’t like SODOMITES.
I know, hence the comment.
I liked her book and enjoyed her analysis on news programs.
I think the "change in politics" can be attributed to one's truth not being grounded in the One Truth of the Bible - without a benchmark you can be easily tossed about by the waves of "change" (and Hope and Change)....
“I think George W. Bush would agree.”
No doubt.
The heck with that ! How can we possibly discriminate against those who want to marry their dog, or their horse ?! They're in love ! Interspecies discrimination is just like miscegnation statutes !
I can only wonder when Ted is going to come out of the closet. He has truly become an odious character. Bob
I don’t care about how good a lawyer that Olson is. He is just another dirtbag. Bob
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