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Cruz: Excluding Muslims from presidency is unconstituional
Minforms ^ | 9/20/15 | Staff

Posted on 09/20/2015 1:49:44 PM PDT by VinL

It would be unconstitutional to disqualify a Muslim from the presidency because of religion, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said Sunday.

“You know, the Constitution specifies there shall be no religious test for public office and I am a constitutionalist,” the Texas senator said during the taping of “Iowa Press” at Iowa Public Television.

Cruz was about Ben Carson’s televised statement that Islam is inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution. “I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that,” Carson said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.

Cruz also referred to the ongoing controversy raised in the media over whether Donald Trump should have corrected a man who incorrectly stated at a rally that President Obama is a Muslim and not an American. “My view, listen. The president’s faith is between him and God. What I’m going to focus on is his public policy record,” Cruz said.

One area in which Cruz did not mind excluding Muslims, however, was from the ranks of refugees from Syria seeking asylum in the United States. He said they should settle in other Middle Eastern countries, citing concerns that some of the purported refugees may actually be terrorists.

“I think the Christians are a very different circumstance because Christians are being persecuted, they are being persecuted directly for their faith and the Obama administration has abandoned Middle East Christians,” Cruz said.

Several other Republican presidential candidates weighed in on the issue of Syrian refugees Saturday during a forum in Des Moines. Mike Huckabee agreed with Cruz that the U.S. should exclude Muslim refugees but accept Christians. Rick Santorum argued that even the Christians should be assisted in the region so they can return home when the violence ends.

Following his visit at Iowa Public Television, Cruz visited with restaurant-goers at the Machine Shed Restaurant in Urbandale for more light-hearted discussions while Iowans enjoyed their morning brunch.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bencarson; captainobvious; carson; cruz; islam; muslims; naturalborncitizen; tedcruz
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To: CatherineofAragon

If of course they’re vetted first.


241 posted on 09/20/2015 3:14:01 PM PDT by petercooper (And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus... Rollin' down Highway 41.)
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To: VinL
In a question-and-answer session, Trump was asked by a student whether he would consider appointing Muslim-Americans to his Cabinet if elected. "Absolutely," he said, "no problem with that."

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150920/us--gop_2016-trump-homecoming-6af1f975d1.html

242 posted on 09/20/2015 3:14:35 PM PDT by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: BenLurkin
What if Americans are too smart — and refuse to elect a Muslim?

They already did.

243 posted on 09/20/2015 3:15:19 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Jarhead9297

While I agree that our economy is in ruin, is debating whether Islam a social issue or is our survival at stake?


244 posted on 09/20/2015 3:15:48 PM PDT by austingirl
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To: CatherineofAragon; unconservative

Oh Catherine, don’t laugh at him. You know it’s a sin before God to laugh at the mentally enfeebled.

Besides, he learnt him a new gosh dern word today- all by himself - “theocracy”. Course he ain’t got no clue want it means— all’s he knows is dat he’s smerter than that herverd lawyer who argued 9 cases before that there Supreme Court-

That would be the same same Court that would tell him that a “cultist” has a right to run for office in America, because we are not a theocracy- we are governed by a Constitution— which says that even if you’re the guy waiting for the aliens to land from Neptune, you can run for office so long as you meet the constitutional requirements.


245 posted on 09/20/2015 3:16:43 PM PDT by VinL (It is better to suffer every wrong, then to consent to wrong.)
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To: petercooper
"If of course they’re vetted first."

So you'd be okay with it?

246 posted on 09/20/2015 3:17:17 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ("A real conservative will bear the scars...he will have been in the trenches fighting."--- Ted Cruz)
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To: VinL; Las Vegas Ron

No- Trump created the issue, Carson inflamed it; and Cruz put it to rest.


Vin, please do explain how Trump “created the issue”. TIA.


247 posted on 09/20/2015 3:17:32 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: CatherineofAragon

/s


248 posted on 09/20/2015 3:18:24 PM PDT by petercooper (And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus... Rollin' down Highway 41.)
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To: dennisw

It was Iowa, a radio forum, with Huck and St.Rick. In that setting, religion is important. With Rick and Huck ready to pounce, do you think he could have avoided it?


249 posted on 09/20/2015 3:19:39 PM PDT by VinL (It is better to suffer every wrong, then to consent to wrong.)
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To: AmericanVictory

This is why Islam itself is ruining us. Islam isn’t as much a religion as it is a forced tyranny using religion.

What a mess.


250 posted on 09/20/2015 3:19:51 PM PDT by dforest
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To: VinL

Some of these responses are actually breathtaking.

I would have thought conservatives understood that it isn’t about what the Constitution should say, or what you want it to say, or what “sounds” unConstitutional, as one post upthread claims.

It either is, or it isn’t unConstitutional. Emotion has nothing to do with it. The law is black and white.


251 posted on 09/20/2015 3:23:14 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ("A real conservative will bear the scars...he will have been in the trenches fighting."--- Ted Cruz)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Please tell me Cruz didn’t pander
****************

He’s a politician, he will pander—— but not here.

If you have time, read the whole article- you’ll see he just speaks his truth, chips fall where they may.


252 posted on 09/20/2015 3:24:36 PM PDT by VinL (It is better to suffer every wrong, then to consent to wrong.)
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To: petercooper

Thanks, missed it.

Earlier today I saw quite a few serious posts in that vein, so I plead fatigue, lol.


253 posted on 09/20/2015 3:25:07 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ("A real conservative will bear the scars...he will have been in the trenches fighting."--- Ted Cruz)
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To: CodeToad

They have proven they cannot. We want our majestic bald eagle as our symbol and they want scores of headless Christians.


254 posted on 09/20/2015 3:25:12 PM PDT by mcshot (We have but our word and honor - 0 has 0.)
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To: Jane Long; VinL
Vin, please do explain how Trump “created the issue”. TIA.

Never thought I'd see the day we would have a muzzie supporting group of FReepers, wow.....

255 posted on 09/20/2015 3:25:17 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (I support Cruz and Trump-DC corruption delenda est!)
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To: SandRat

I like your Klingon statement, but it could be used as cover for any number of bad ideas.

As for this issue, it certainly is not a deal breaker in that I know Cruz is a constitutionalist. I would have preferred he word this in more detail, but it is not necessary.


256 posted on 09/20/2015 3:27:15 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: dforest

One thing is for sure, Islam is an issue in this election.
It is what it is, and it sucks. Thanks to Obama.


257 posted on 09/20/2015 3:28:18 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: caww

unbelievable


258 posted on 09/20/2015 3:28:24 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: TigersEye

Cruz could say a lot of thing that were right, but it’s most helpful to back up the other candidate when he’s right on target. We have a problem with Islamic terrorism.

Cruz gave the CAIR response. I just don’t care for it.

Carson was dead on target, and Cruz was pulling darts out of the back door.

I agree with your comments on Leftist ideology. I refuse to honor their wish to be call progressives in instead of liberals.


259 posted on 09/20/2015 3:28:45 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: CatherineofAragon; marcela

Nah- Trump has some good folks behind him-— these are the ones who will be his undoing-— they want all of us out of their country ‘cept them.


260 posted on 09/20/2015 3:29:00 PM PDT by VinL (It is better to suffer every wrong, then to consent to wrong.)
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