The appeals court disagreed in a 2–1 decision, which held that the government has no business encroaching on Americans' most private of affairs. But Cruz and Texas attorney general Greg Abbott....battled on, filing a brief requesting a hearing before the full court of appeals, claiming the three-judge panel had overstepped the precedent set by Lawrence. Cruz's office argued that the prior ruling would give all manner of deviants grounds to claim that "engaging in consensual adult incest or bigamy" must be legal as they have a right to "enhance their sexual experiences." They lost the motion and ultimately chose not to bring the matter to the Supreme Court.
....from the rest of the article:
Cruz has never discussed his views on dildo commerce during the 2016 campaign, and it’s unlikely that many of his supporters know his history on such matters. It’s difficult to gauge the effect this news will have on Cruz’s standing with the electorate, as exit polls neglected to ask Republican primarygoers about their affinity for sexual devices.
Regardless, the American people deserve to know whether Cruz still holds such an expansive view of the government’s right to regulate public morality. There are undoubtedly no small number of patriots in this country who would tell President Cruz’s jackbooted thugs, “I’ll give you my dildo when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.”
In other news so did you.
I’ll bet ISIS and the Taliban would agree with him.
So you signed up last month to post this crap?
I am not going to critize Cruz for doing his job.
However, is this the experience that is best suited to get our economy rolling? Bring jobs? Trade agreements? National debt?
Jerk.
Thank God there aren’t any lawyers in heaven.
I have no problem with this. Cruz was just doing his job enforcing the will of the Texas Legislature as Solicitor General.
It was his job to defend a state law. He was solicitor general and they violating state law.
DANG!
Sure are a lot of trolls out this election.
You get off on this, don’t you?
Cruz’s college roommate said Ted’s opposition to masturbation must have comes later in life. Lol. Sexually repressed much Ted?
If this is true....Cruz had no choice but to fulfill his role as Texas solicitor general. He worked for the state in that capacity 12 years ago and was was told to take the case.
Let’s give these bogus hit pieces a rest.
FYI, lawyers get paid to argue any side of the story...why are you liberals so obsessed with this story?
I assume you posted this to diminish Cruz. In the interest of a productive and effective discussion, exactly HOW does this do that?
Declare in detail what is wrong with the positions that Cruz took in behalf of the state.
It falls to the state legislature, who is obviously suffering massive boredom to think up laws like this. As long as these are sold to adults over 18. No one cares. As was said, Abbott and Cruz were duty bound to represent the legislature to the feds, but, what a waste of time. As a Trump supporter I am going to get a kick out of some of the comments about Cruz’s arguments that were presented.
I must say I read the article and all the comments and I am VERY disappointed in my fellow freepers, why you ask. Because no where did I see a gif with Red sCruz wagging a dildo at us instead of his finger with that insane look on his face. Come on freepers.