Posted on 02/12/2015 10:14:33 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Since the U.S. Supreme Court rejected hearing Alabama’s appeal on gay marriage earlier this week, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has taken the firmest stance of all potential Republican presidential candidate on the issue.
Cruz introduced the State Marriage Defense Act just two days after the high court’s decision, which would allow states to decide on how to define marriage, rather than federal judges.
While Republicans have long been the party supporting only traditional marriage, media reports have recently stressed how slow likely Republican 2016 presidential have been to speak out on the Alabama matter.
The Supreme Court opted not to hear a case in which Alabama requested a delay in a lower court order against the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. The Supreme Court essentially made Alabama the 37th state in the country to recognize same-sex marriage, in what is expected to be a preview to the court’s decision later this year in a gay marriage case.
“Even though the Supreme Court made clear in United States v. Windsor that the federal government should defer to state ‘choices about who may be married,’ the Obama Administration has disregarded state marriage laws enacted by democratically-elected legislatures to uphold traditional marriage,” Cruz said in a statement....
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
CRUZ 2016!
Oy. This will doom his already 3% polling. Of all the issues to go big stick on. Gay marriage is toothpaste that is never going back into the tube. How I wish he could be perceived by a wider audience as right for the country. This cements him in front of the palinization wood chipper. Wish I could be wrong.
It seems his advanced Ivy League degrees are not helping him get out in front of the media who have nearly completed their boxing him into the “different from you crazy right wing freak” category.
I am for states rights too but this was not the issue to go big on for a candidate. We have to kill the media to win, and instead we are feeding them.
Sure that isn’t the Californian in you talking? I grew up there in the 60’s until the mid 70’s and I know that your view is skewed by living there, no matter how conservative you may personally be.
The majority of the voters are obviously against gay marriage, as it keeps failing in referendums. People may say one thing to friends and family on the issue, or even to pollsters, since there is such fear of the backlash and “bigot” label. Yet, when they get in the voting booth, Americans keep showing that they haven’t really changed their opinions on the issue very much, and they are the ones that Cruz needs to appeal to, not the media.
Yup; a bridge too far.
If his public stances would be more public — that us, given extensive coverage in the media — I think they would work in his favor. People need to see that Ted Cruz is the only candidate who consistently defends what is good and right. I want to think that there are far more moral individuals than that noisy bunch of Satan’s slaves. This country is being lost to God and desperately needs a leader who will bring it back to traditional values.
I’ve already decided on voting for Ted Cruz, but if I was undecided, this makes me want to vote for him even more, not less.
Most Americans oppose (strongly) the Democrat Party's ongoing efforts to sodomize us. If you want to just bend over and take it, that's your business.
I'm glad to see a potential Presidential candidate stand up and say "NO!" to the creeping evil of the Demonic Party.
TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT!!!
Actually, I see this stance as being about as neutral as a conservative candidate could be...let the States decide, which is the beauty of the Federalist system that our Founding Fathers left to us, and the commies hate so much.
That is what all the libs are trying to tell us. Same with Obamacare. It is the law of the land, so everyone needs to shut up and sit down and get with the program. Opposition is futile, and just conform. That actually works for the libs. They want everyone to forget and just live with their radical programs, so those will not be turned back.
Actually, this is one of the reasons I like Ted Cruz. He shows bold leadership. Unlike, the quit and wave the surrender flag candidates.
If there is a will, there is a way. Libs would love for conservatives to not have a will. Unfortunately a lot of the GOP do not have a will. Others are just libs posing Republicans.
Ping to #11.
I think you are wrong in a few points Yaelle.
Gay marriage is not “toothpaste out of the tube” - it’s just a smidgeon of toothpaste that can be easily cleaned up if doing so were not prohibited by feds.... to put it in your words. Strangers are coming into your bathroom and leaving the cap off of your colgate tube - that’s all. Cruz says if you want your toothpaste tube left off, fine. But let the owner of the bathroom and toothpaste decide....
This issue is indeed huge for his base AND for the overwhelming majority of Hispanics and blacks.
If polls matter to you right now, he’s only polling at 3% in polls that don’t matter. The post i’m replying to is like a reaction to media stories. NO, no no no and NO!
Hmmm....liberals assured us that DOMA would withstand a constitutional challenge. If the courts overturned DOMA they’ll overturn this one too.
Change the culture, not the law.
‘Everybody’s doing it’
Traditional marriage has 3 pillars:
1) It is permanent. IF divorce is permitted at all, it can only be obtained from a neutral fact-finder for serious breaches of contract. It can NEVER be obtained through the will of one party over the objections of the other.
2) Adultery is a criminal offense and reprisal belongs to the ruler (in the US, the state).
3) In the event of marital separation, children remain in the custody of their father.
THAT is what traditional marriage is. It is illegal in all 50 states. The first law deconstructing traditional marriage was passed in California with heavy Republican support and signed by a Republican governor.
+1.
Bad decision to campaign too strongly on that subject. A little Ju Jitsu is needed on the subject.
Something like dropping an anti-gay message into a pro and reaffirming family message in spite of the gay advances made during the story of O would be better and more Reaganesque.
“Change the culture, not the law”
Can you cite the “law” Cruz is trying to change here?
He’s trying to restrict the ability of oligarchical Federal judges to change state law.
That toothpaste may not go back in the tube, but you miss the most salient points of what Cruz said - regarding the 10th Amendment. When it becomes passe' to talk such "nonsense" we might as well all lock ourselves in our homes and wait for the "authorities" to come by and put us out of our misery.
CRUZ CRUZ CRUZ!!!
I am so honored to be here and read so many brilliant responses that REFUTED your post #3...!!!!!
They said what I would want to say and very well.
Your post made me so mad all I could think to say was
PHOOEY on you......
Sure, Yaelle, we should just roll over and accept everything....right...can’t change it ....just learn to love it!
NO!!!!!!!
Thank GOD for the Ted Cruz......Jeff Sessions....Judge Roy Moore .....of this world.
We still have some Defenders of the Faith taking the heat for those of us who need representing!!!!!
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