Posted on 02/05/2016 7:09:07 AM PST by NKP_Vet
Ted Cruz sounded despondent at the possibility that same-sex marriage could become legal when he called into the radio show of Tony Perkins, a vehement opponent of gay rights, in February 2014. "Our heart weeps for the damage to traditional marriage that has been done," Mr. Cruz said, urging conservatives to pray but also to fight back. "Be as wise as serpents and gentle as doves," he said, quoting Scripture.
But seven months later, when Mr. Cruz visited the Midtown Manhattan office of a major Republican supporter of same-sex marriage, he sounded almost indifferent: If New York politicians wanted to legalize it, that was their business, he told Paul Singer, the billionaire investor who had bankrolled efforts to strike down laws forbidding same-sex marriage across the country. There was no reason the issue had to drive a wedge between the two men, the Texas senator said, according to a person briefed on the meeting who supports one of Mr. Cruz's opponents.
Mr. Cruz would hardly be the only person to modulate his most provocative language when speaking to people whose support he is courting. But Mr. Cruz, the winner of the Iowa caucuses, has worked harder than any Republican running for president to portray himself as the true and pure conservative and to impugn his rivals as not faithful enough in their conservatism.
Now, as he finds himself locked in an intense struggle for the support of the party's top donors, instances in which he curried favor, or merely associated, with people who do not share his views on some contentious issues are being dredged up and shared by people who believe that Mr. Cruz has been disingenuous, especially in his solicitation of money from people he has coolly dismissed as having "New York values."
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
"Evangelicals and political opponents want to know why Cruz gave less than 1% of his income to charity between 2006 and 2010. "It's hard to say God is first in your life if he's last in your budget," Huckabee tells BuzzFeed News.
Cruz’s tithing history troubles me but I don’t think there is any question that Ted Cruz will be the best representative of Christian values.
“Evangelicals and political opponents want to know why Cruz gave less than 1% of his income to charity between 2006 and 2010.”
Is it possible he took the standard deduction? Donations do not show up on tax forms in that case.
Cruz and his donors and his purity? Yeah sure.
“On immigration, for example, Mr. Cruz has come under fire for reversing himself on expanding the H1B visa pool for highly skilled workers, a program viewed skeptically by conservatives. He now opposes it, citing abuses of the program. But in advocating for the program in 2013, he sought support not just from policy experts but from donors with an interest in the subject.”
Yes, Cruz is a pandering career politician. But didn’t you post this yesterday?
What’s up with that?
His contributions were absolutely “Biden-esque”
Seems to me that the notion of the New York Times being heralded as the aegis of Republicanism, or conservatism or anything beneficial to the opponents of Democrats is just plain crap. Like an errant fart in the wind.
Neither you nor anyone else has any idea what Cruz has given to his church over the years, so give it up. Most evangelicals know that a lot of Christians don’t claim tithes or offerings on their taxes - it is a gift to God, not a tax deduction.
Don’t know him obviously, don’t know if this applies to him. Some people don’t take their church contributions as a tax deduction because it seems unseemly somehow.
Do you think Trump will be a better representative of Christian values than Cruz?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWejiXvd-P8
I don’t deduct my tithes, do you?
Are you a Pharisee or a Publican?
Over the years Trump has given .0013% to charity. Whoops! I forgot a zero. .00013%
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/donald-trump-00013-man-0
Trump does pretend to be Elmer Gantry. Cruz is a fake and a fraud. I could care less how much money he gives to his church, it’s his cozying up to homosexual “marriage” supporters and begging for their money that makes me sick to my stomach. That faggot lover Paul Singer that worked long and hard for queer “marriage” Cruz begged money from and he got it. Guess Pastor Rafael was upset when queer lover Singer endorsed another creep that panders to the homosexual millionaires by the name of Marco Rubio.
At least they weren’t Trumpesque. He donates 7,692 times more of his income than Trump.
I support Trump on ideas like immigration and appreciate what he recently did for vets. But what Cruz gives to his church or what Trump gives to his church or if it is reported on taxes is between them and God and none of my business. Actions that will affect America are my business. Only Cruz or Trump know what they give to God or what it means to them.
a/k/a snake oil salesman.
You didn’t answer my question. Have you done your due diligence on Trump and homosexual issues? Abortion, etc.?
I know this will ignite fury in you (not my intention), but you seem loaded with hate. And that response to sin is about as far from the example Christ gave as one could get.
“Neither you nor anyone else has any idea what Cruz has given to his church over the years, so give it up”
Doesn’t stop Cruz people from claiming that Trump really gives no money to vets.
So why should questions like this be off-limits for Cruz?
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