Posted on 04/26/2015 8:02:29 AM PDT by markomalley
Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told a gathering of conservative Republicans that there was “no room for Christians in today's Democratic party,” in a speech Saturday, according to reports.
Speaking at the Faith and Freedom summit in Iowa, along with several other GOP 2016 hopefuls, Cruz said: “There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage," according to CNN.
The Texas lawmaker told his audience that the issue of same-sex marriage had produced rabid zealotry in Democratic ranks. This ideology, he argued, was excluding people of faith, the Hill reported.
Cruz's speech, and those of his fellow Republican presidential aspirants, were aimed at courting the votes of Iowa's evangelical Christians -- a demographic that was key in providing support to the last Republican president, George W. Bush.
Other Republican speakers at the event included Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee, Scott Walker, Rand Paul, Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio.
The intense competition for evangelical votes however, may bode ill for the GOP, with the wide variety of conservative candidates raising the possibility that the Christian vote would splinter.
“The problem for Christian conservative candidates is they’re all running in the same lane,” Kedron Bardwell, a political scientist at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, who studies religion and politics, told the New York Times.
Out of all of the candidates vying for Christian support in the state, Cruz had the edge, according to the Politico Caucus, a weekly survey of influential activists, operatives and elected officials.
After Cruz, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee was best placed to benefit from conservative Christian support in the Iowa, the paper added.
The issue that seemed to elicit the strongest reaction from the crowd was that of marriage, with some speakers drawing their loudest applause from the crowd when saying that they would defend the principle that marriage was between a man and a woman only, Bloomberg reported.
Cruz is today’s Reagan.
Both barrels, no compromise, no where to hide for today’s progressives/liberals and RINOs.
When people hear the truth - they respond.
He has all my respect.
Too bad Catholics never got the message. Their Priests preach on Social Justice every Sunday promoting Marxism.
Pray America is waking
Jimmy Carter ran on his Christian faith. He carried the Evangelical vote.
I notice that you are here on a Sunday morning. How did you manage to gather that little factoid that you sling about like it was from personal experience?
/johnny
Thank you.
He knows how to grab a headline, and to space them out every few days.
Democraps can't argue this publicly without alienating their moonbat anti-Christian base.
Checkmate.
Imagine how powerful this message would be if it were believed and articulated often by ALL Republicans. Unfortunately, the “new tone” and “compassionate-conservative” wing of the GOP are embarrassed by these facts being aired.
Plenty of room, however, for people who like to call themselves Christians.
He’s right. Go Ted Go!
Biggest mistakes Christians ever made.
It's interesting that they used the word "placed" to described Huckabee's candidacy.
Huckabee has been pushed and placed into the race to take away Cruz's Christian support IMO.
Well, conservative Christians in Iowa went for Santorum in 2012. How does that not make Santorum ‘best placed’? Is there a theory that Santorum benefited from crossover Democrats in 2012?
If it weren't for Jimmy Carter we would never have been able to elect Ronald Reagan.
God worked it out.
As a Catholic who went to a Jesuit school, I agree with you. However, we have some good ones in the Dominicans and Franciscans. Besides, Methodists and Presbyterians are weak too.
Cruz compared the unambiguous statement of Democrat President John F. Kennedy strongly supporting religious liberty with a vote of the 2014 Democrat-controlled Senate on a bill that would gut the Federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act following the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision. There were 55 Democrats in the Senate, and ZERO would stand for religious liberty.
The setup and portion of the Cruz speech where he makes this argument can be watched at this time queued link >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrx2zbzL0Tg&t=8m25s
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