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.
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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.
Section 1 of Article Two of the United States Constitution sets forth the eligibility requirements for serving as president of the United States:
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
It doesn’t exclude people with green Mohawks and 32 rings in their nose either.
“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.”
This is incoherent.
Which is why, absent an Amendment, Cruz is correct on this.
It still sucks. And, I wish Cruz were a strident practitioner of Constitutional Principles. He gets it right most of the time but has made some baffling voting decisions.
” it used to be a visa and citizenship oath requirement “
that you were not , nor ever have been ‘ am member of the Nazi Party , or the Communist Party “
Islam is on a par with both .....
Learn what a Theocracy is on your own and educate yourself.
Then, Muslims pretend not to be Muslim by joining a church that claims to be Christian but isn’t. Then they get the media to attack everyone that says, “look, the emperor has no clothes! ... or, look, the emperor usurper is a a Muzzi!”
Obama's Iran Deal and the TPP.
He voted for fast tracking both of them before he read either of them.
He abandoned the Treaty Clause yet he claims to be a Constitutionalist? He is a Constitutionalist when it suits his purpose.
They are both right. There can be no legal prohibition against electing muslims and it’s not a good idea to elect muslims. Their respective statements are not in conflict.
The fact is that Progressive ideology is just as
incompatible with the Constitution as Islam is.
You just revealed where Cruz is going with this.
He’s counting on a controversy about the subject.
Cruz wasn’t talking about the voters. He was talking about a law that would say a Muslim is not permitted to be the president. Of course that’s unconstitutional.
However, the republican and democrat parties are not governmental bodies. They are private organizations, iirc. They have their own platforms, and THEY can have a platform that excludes muslims from presidential candidacy.
ANY belief system, be it a religion or an ideology, is not specifically prohibited from running for the office of the Presidency of that territory once known as “the United States of America”.
As it so happens, Islam is much more of an ideology than it is a religion. In fact, it is probably less of a religion than Scientology, which professes no deity (the Eighth Dynamic notwithstanding), and more like the ideology known as National Socialism, as practiced by the Third Reich, from sometime after the First World War until about the end of the Second World War.
I saw a Freeper dismiss Trump this AM because of something he said about muslims, guess Cruz is off his list now too.
Guess there’s always Carly.
I’m a Cruz supporter but he should have kept his mouth shut. Fact is, every single muslim, whether they approve of violent jihad or not (and most do) support the imposition of sharia law over the entire world through one means or another.
ALL muslims, not matter how nice they might seem, are mortal enemies of Western and Judeo Christian culture.
I wish he had the balls to just say it and not be political.
In Klingon in pIqaD
noH QapmeH wo’ Qaw’lu’chugh yay chavbe’lu’, ‘ej wo’ choqmeH may’ DoHlu’chugh lujbe’lu’
Translation
Destroying an empire to win a war is no victory, and ending a battle to save an empire is no defeat.
I think it was a radio forum in Iowa with Huck and St.Rick— someone must have asked.
we will come to such understandings and such Constitutional revisions and amendments in the weeks following the loss of several U.S. cities to islamist terrorist nuclear attacks , which is coming . Mark my words ....
We are not there yet , but we will be .
bingo!
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