Maddow: Cruz Must Answer For Appearance At 'Kill-The-Gays' Conference

[KamaAina]

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/maddow-cruz-must-answer-appearance-kill-gays-conference

Swanson, who was joined at the conference by at least two other activists who had previously called for the government to execute gay people, reiterated his view that homosexuality is a death penalty crime before Cruz joined him on stage. Cruz, after Swanson introduced him, declared that “any president who doesn't begin every day on his knees isn't fit to be commander-in-chief of this nation.”

While Cruz has tried to avoid questions about his attempt to woo Swanson, his campaign finally released a statement to Rachel Maddow on Wednesday, defending his appearance at the event by insisting that Swanson’s call to put unrepentant gay people to death was “not explicit.”

As Maddow pointed out, Swanson’s statements about the death penalty were not the only ones at the conference. One conference speaker, Phillip Kayser, distributed a booklet he wrote arguing that gay people should be killed by the government if they do not renounce homosexuality, listing proper biblical punishments as hanging, stoning and “being thrown off a cliff or dashed on rocks.”

“It is not necessarily news any more that there are people like this on the right, who view homosexuality according to their version of biblically-ordained judicial principles,” Maddow said. “But it is news, it is always news, when people from the purported mainstream of American politics, people who are vying to be the next president of the United States, show up at events like this and speak from the same stage where pastors are justifying the death penalty for gay Americans.”

[kacekwl]

1. Sadly he doesn't have to answer,

like Trump his supporters feel the same way he does.

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2. NPR did a LONG-ASS interview with him broadcast on today's "Morning Edition",

and they never even sniffed this particular subject. Everything the slimy creep said was along the lines of "Obama is weak" (re:terrorism) and "climate change is a figment of leftists' imaginations".

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3. Tie this securely around Sen. Cruz's neck

"Oh, the guy whose check I cashed wasn't explicit about the summary execution of citizens for their perceived sexual orientation, so, you know, it's all okay."

Not good enough, Senator. Not good enough by half. You're making campaign appearances before this odious group, taking their money, and enjoying their accolades. You don't get to walk away and say it's no big thing. It doesn't work that way.

The media and the Republican establishment are giving Sen. Cruz serious consideration right now while the Trumpster fire is raging and consuming everything in its path. Ted Cruz is unfit for any elected office (which right now can be laid at the feet of our good friends in Texas). Any wider consideration of Cruz as a candidate is shameful.

[napkinz]

4. Ted Cruz is a member of CHRISTIS

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5. Ted Cruz now claims "teh gayz" are waging "jihad" against Christians (posted by Archae)

Apr 10, 2015

During a presidential candidate forum hosted by an Iowa homeschool group yesterday, Ted Cruz lashed out at the gay community for waging a “jihad” against so-called religious freedom laws in states such as Arkansas and Indiana.

Cruz, speaking at a panel moderated by conservative talk show host Steve Deace, who regularly castigates the “Rainbow Jihad,” told the crowd of homeschooling activists that they should fear “the jihad that is being waged right now in Indiana and Arkansas, going after people of faith who respect the biblical teaching that marriage is the union of one man and one woman.”


see http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026485048

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6. kick