http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel
An interesting person.
Typical bogus paraphrase from NYT saying Cruz said “he would have no problem” if a daughter were gay when in fact he said he would love her just as much. That’s not the same thing.
My wife and I are militant social conservatives
In 2005 we welcomed a dying from AIDs homosexual into our care and provided for him till he went to hospice 10 months later
He was a family friend and a Belle Meade dandy but no one else would take him
He rightly suspected folks with a trust in Christ would....even though we have a house full of kids....he called me one night at 2am on the street in downtown Nashville right after my 2nd in 11 months open heart crying after having been mugged
He had AIDs dementia....infected his brain stem
Onyx you may remember this....a lot of folks here and all of klown posse ridiculed me for this
Both my wife and momma had known him decades and mother helped us with it financially
Cruz attempting dialogue with right wing homosexuals is courageous
And we detest homosexual activism and all that entails
I also have two lesbican aunts who were abused and molested as young girls
I get on warmly with them and they are very socially conservative and church going
But they think queer nation activism is shameful
What would Dick Cheney do?
“It’s only bad when Ted Cruz does it.... no matter what ‘it’ is.” — New York Times
That's a misnomer, and I wish Cruz and the rest of the Republican candidates would quit saying it. It's that kind of thinking that got us in this mess in the first place.
As Lincoln, in his famous 1858 "House Divided" speech, said of slavery,
"I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free...It will become all one thing or all the other."
Lincoln knew what was happening around him in politics and the law. In his speech he describes in exquisite detail the political and legal process that was inexorably forwarding the pro-slavery cause throughout the 1850s. He had enough vision and wisdom to understand the inevitable course of deeply moral things that turn on the natural law, as instituted by God. Good cannot quietly, passively coexist and compromise with evil and remain good. And evil is compelled to try to destroy good wherever it exists. Even if evil can't kill good outright, it is more than happy to kill it by the slow poisoning of incremental compromise. But either way, the victim is just as dead. It's only a matter of time.
In any case, fundamentally, the decision about marriage is not up to federal judges, or to the states, or even to the people. It's a matter that God Himself decided, from the beginning, when He created, defined, and instituted marriage.
Matthew 19:4-64 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
In the initial national platform of the Republican Party in 1856 the party's primary purpose was established, which was to combat what they called "the twin relics of barbarism, slavery and polygamy."
Make no mistake, polygamy is barbaric. And "gay marriage" is even more barbaric.
Anyone who thinks the American republic can survive as a barbaric institution, in whole or in part, is fooling themselves.
Marriage and the natural family, conformed to the laws of nature and nature's God, are absolutely essential to the survival of our civilization and form of republican self-government.
Duh