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.
No room for Christians, but plenty of room for catholics.
Not all christians are actually christians... or jews, JEWS,,,
-OR- CATHOLICS- roman, or even catholic..
POSING as “something” does not make you that something...
I doubt many muslims are actually muslims...
The ancient greek name for actor IS HYPOCRITOS..
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?
Not sure what you are getting out. Santorum in 2016 similar to Huckabee will be pushed to take conservative Christian votes...at least as long as Cruz is the biggest threat.
Ask some who have been bounced for their color, sex and sexual preference.
Santorum no less than Huckabee is a Bush-Rove faux candidate. I’m not sure why the emphasis on Huckabee.
In Iowa caucuses, Huckabee and Santorum were the main not-Mitt Romney candidates (McCain campaign looked dead in 2008 Iowa). Cruz certainly and Walker probably are the not-Jeb candidates now. No room for Huck and Rick.
Yes both Huck and Rick are being pushed/placed. The more not-Bushes the merrier for Bush-Rove-Clinton.
I love this guy. Go Ted!
Like the Bible says, by their fruits you shall know them. What causes are catholics involved in? Anti-death penalty, amnesty/sanctuary cities, more taxes to give away to people who don’t work, etc. Not to mention voting patterns that seem to favor democrat candidates. The catholics must be learning this stuff from somewhere.
How can someone not attend and know what is being taught?
There is a lot of that kind of falsity on FR these days.
Facts matter, and one shouldn't claim facts that one doesn't really have without disclosing that the facts are not in hand.
/johnny
there is no room for Americans in the Demo party either
Cruz To Victory!
I'm with you. Let's hope for the BEST, but be prepared for the worst.
What I've seen over the years is UNLESS the ISSUE affects the individual DIRECTLY, actually burns their a$$, usually calling attention to itself by taking money out of their pockets, then they tend to ignore or stay oblivious to it.
My point: If there isn't a certain degree of calamity and collapse, followed by cleanup and reconstruction, nothing would ever CHANGE.
Be Ready!
Cruz is right on this...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.