Ted Cruz's cowardly anti-transgender stance

The Chicago Tribune ^ | April 25, 2016 | Rex Huppke

[2ndDivisionVet]

Ted Cruz is a coward.

He's other things — a GOP presidential candidate, a senator from Texas, possibly the Zodiac Killer (Google it) — but most of all, and most unquestionably, he's a coward.

A coward mocks what he doesn't understand. A coward seeks political gain by maligning others. A coward talks about North Carolina's controversial bathroom law, which requires transgender people to use the restroom that matches the gender on their birth certificate, by saying this at a Sunday campaign event: "If Donald Trump dresses up as Hillary Clinton, he still can't go to the girl's bathroom."

Hah! The crowd laughed and thought it was a stitch because, naturally, all transgender women look like Trump in a pantsuit, right?

Wrong.

Not just wrong, but offensive. And not just offensive to transgender people, offensive to any American who thinks denigrating transgender people is repellent...

[AndyTheBear]

The Chicago Tribune is a left-wing paper, do you expect them not to say stupid things?

Its not the Donald's fault if a left-wing paper does a hit piece of Cruz. If Cruz was the front-runner, there would be a heck of a lot more negative press about him from left-wing papers.

[Petrosius]

A coward talks about North Carolina's controversial bathroom law, which requires transgender people to use the restroom that matches the gender their actual sex as it appears on their birth certificate,...

[bootless]

>>The Chicago Tribune is a left-wing paper, do you expect them not to say stupid things?<<

Of course I do :) It was just a bit beyond their usual idiocy.

[x]

The idea that a bill like the one in North Carolina will open the door for male predators to don women's clothing and start trolling restrooms is absurd on its face, and not backed by any historical evidence of such behavior. PolitiFact North Carolina did an exhaustive review of this topic and reported: "We haven't found any instances of criminals convicted of using transgender protections as cover in the United States. Neither have any left-wing groups orright-wing groups."

Not a convincing argument.

There isn't evidence until there is.

It's the "slippery slope."

By this point nobody trusts media claims like this.

[HiTech RedNeck]

But again when all America knows that it has gone at least a little mad itself, it finds it harder to distinguish between itself and the rest of people who have gone mad.

[Elsie]

A coward mocks what he doesn't understand.

HMMMmmm...

I mock what I DO understand!

[Eagles6]

A dilemma. I don't want them in the men's room with me either.

Jeff's idea makes the most sense but they won't accept that because it won't accomplish their goal which is the destruction of the moral foundation of Judeo Christian Western Civilization.

Agreeing with a man that believes that he is a woman is like giving a sword and a funny hat to a man that thinks that he's Napoleon and telling him that if he invades Russia he'll feel better about himself.

Forcing me to affirm someone elses delusion will not cure their mental illness.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Except that this is a humongous fig leaf. This hasn’t been policed since when?

[Elsie]

Transgender people clearly have problems.

As do the rest of the gay, lesbian, homo, _________ (favorite slur word here) batch.

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Genesis 13:13

Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.

Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."

Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.

Psalms 12:8 The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men.

Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.

2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.

Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.

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2 Peter 2

1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.

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But there IS hope!!!

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Health Risks of gay sex.

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[Elsie]

I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous!

[SERKIT]

Now that Rubio and Carson are out, Ted Cruz wins the vast majority of evangelical Christian voters. Not Trump.
The Real Clear Politics polls and others would not agree.

As to another point about pandering. Yea, lets ignore the largest portion of the Republican base the the GOPe always has.
The majority of Republican voters are backing Trump, according to the primaries.

We now know you are truly a good old fashioned GOPe man who could give a crap about the morality of this country.
I can't stand the GOPe. Trump expands the tent - they don't like who Trump brought into the tent. The GOPe gave us McCain, Boehner, Ryan, McConnell, Mittens Romney, and other losers and they refuse to practice any form of introspection.

The GOPe caves to OBama, Reid, Pelosi, and ObamaCare.

Reince will be presiding over the funeral of a big, stinking, decayed, dead GOPe elephant. Me? Part of the GOPe? Nope!

[Elsie]

I for one have never seen the elusive trannie.

I've seen them in the local Wal-Mart.

I've NOT seen any in the bathroom when I was in one.

(Maybe they went in the girl side).

How 'bout it ladies; have YOU ever seen an obvious male in drag in the restroom?

[Elsie]

The "solution" or "compromise" will be, mark my word, UNISEX Bathrooms.

I've three of them at my house.

[HiTech RedNeck]

But with the New Testament, God isn’t supposed to be just “going down there and watching to see how bad it is”... in fact He said that if the miracles that Israel had witnessed were witnessed there, they’d have repented.

And the trouble with most Christians is that they are satisfied to rail in living color at how bad all those trannies and gays and whatever are, and pontificate on how rapidly they are going to hell. But ask them to show a miracle... it’s like asking a dog to meow.

[Elsie]

I’ve been told that many women won’t even move their bowels when there are other women present in the rest room.

And at times, some men exhibit a certain 'shyness' as well.

[JediJones]

You should know where the issue is going. At the current pace, the SCOTUS will soon make it illegal for any private business to deny access to a restroom for whatever gender wants to go in there. The male/female designation may be forced to be removed from them completely as a form of Jim Crow-style segregation.

This is radical social change being pushed by the left and it must be fought as vigorously as the left is fighting the NC law, or it will happen, just as same-sex marriage did.

[JediJones]

The majority of Republican voters are backing Trump, according to the primaries.

He's at 37.9% of the popular vote, not a majority.

[Elsie]

and for a growing list of most of the insults said or posted by donald- I’m pretty sure donald has ted beat for sheer numbers of insults-

Speaking of insults...

 

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Matthew 15:16
   "Are you still so dull?" Jesus asked them.

Matthew 23

 

  1.  Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples:
  2.  "The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.
  3.  So you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.
  4.  They tie up heavy loads and put them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
  5.  "Everything they do is done for men to see: They make their phylacteries  wide and the tassels on their garments long;
  6.  they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues;
  7.  they love to be greeted in the marketplaces and to have men call them `Rabbi.'
  8.  "But you are not to be called `Rabbi,' for you have only one Master and you are all brothers.
  9.  And do not call anyone on earth `father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven.
 10.  Nor are you to be called `teacher,' for you have one Teacher, the Christ.
 11.  The greatest among you will be your servant.
 12.  For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
 13.  "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to. 
 14.  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. 
 15.   "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are. 
 16.  "Woe to you, blind guides! You say, `If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.'
 17.  You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred?
 18.  You also say, `If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by his oath.'
 19.  You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
 20.  Therefore, he who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.
 21.  And he who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it.
 22.  And he who swears by heaven swears by God's throne and by the one who sits on it.
 23.  "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices--mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law--justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
 24.  You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
 25.  "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
 26.  Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.
 27.  "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!  You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean.
 28.  In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
 29.  "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.
 30.  And you say, `If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'
 31.  So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.
 32.  Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your forefathers!
 33.  "You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
 34.  Therefore I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town.
 35.  And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
 36.  I tell you the truth, all this will come upon this generation.
 37.  "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.
 38.  Look, your house is left to you desolate.
 39.  For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, `Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.' "

 

Mark 7:26-27
 26.  The woman was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.
 27.  "First let the children eat all they want," he told her, "for it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs."

 

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And St. Paul chimes in...

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Galatians 5:12
   As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!

 

[HiTech RedNeck]

Given that marriage has been dumbed down to mean nothing more than civil union, that would be a piece of legal cake.

We need to see honestly. Social customs won’t be the basis of what America really needs, which is the miraculous witness of the Lord.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Notice that “hypocrite” was aimed at the RELIGIOUS set. Be very careful where you move, or you might find yourself in that company too.