Ted Cruz: Gay Marriage Will Lead to Persecution of Pastors And Christians

[TexasTowelie]

Ted Cruz has sure been making his way around lately, spotted in Iowa, an anti-immigration rally hosted by a known racist, cruising around with his pop, and now in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network.

What wisdom did the aspiring potential 2016 Republican presidential nominee have to share with the world this time? Gay marriage will lead to hate speech laws and the persecution of pastors and Christians.

"Everywhere I go people are afraid for the future of our country;" Cruz says during the interview. "I think we're at the edge of a precipice. If we keep going down this path, we're risking losing our nation; we're risking losing the incredible oasis of liberty."

"If you look at other nations that have gone down the road towards gay marriage, that's the next step of where it gets enforced," Cruz told David Brody during the interview aired by the Christian television network on Friday. "It gets enforced against Christian pastors who decline to perform gay marriages, who speak out and preach biblical truths on marriage, that has been defined elsewhere as hate speech, as inconsistent with the enlightened view of government."

"I think there is no doubt that the advocates who are driving this effort in the United States want to see us end up in that same place," Cruz further argues.

More at http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/13841/ted-cruz-gay-marriage-will-lead-to-persecution-of-pastors-christians .

Cross-posted at LGBT Civil Rights and Activism Group.

[mbperrin]

1. Will no one rid Texas of this turbulent idiot?

Send him back to Canada, please?

[TexasTowelie]

3. I'd prefer to send him to Cuba instead.

It would be a great opportunity for Ted to identify communism and dictators since he makes those accusations about our political system and leaders in the US.

[efhmc]

4. Plus he can investigate his heritage.

[mbperrin]

8. No, they'd give him free health care and a nice package to make life comfortable.

I understand that the current Canadian government is fucking things up and making it much more like our corporate state here.

Yeah, Canada.

Plus, lots more people freeze to death than die of the heat. Funny, that.

[hobbit709]

2. Haven't noticed any lion feedings lately.

[dballance]

5. Not a single case has been brought in states...

that allow same-sex marriage. Not a single case has been brought to challenge the right of the clergy to not perform same-sex marriages. We call that the First Amendment in action and practice.

[8 track mind]

6. Gay Marriage Will Lead to Persecution of Pastors And Christians............

Dude! Works for me! Let the wedding bells ring baby!!!!!!!!

[TexasTowelie]

7. !

I'll make sure not to get in your way.

[DhhD]

9. Senator, you forgot to mention that God told Lot to walk the other way and not to look back.

Lot's wife, being a busy-body, stopped, turned and looked back. (She became covered with salt.)

Senator Cruz: Why don't you mind your business and everybody else can go about, the life of choice, that is God given. Leave judgment up to God.

Thanks,

The Church

[DhhD]

10. Is Senator Ted Cruz affiliated with any religious group?

Pope Francis talks about his belief that he is not to judge others from the National Catholic Register.

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/jimmy-akin/7-things-you-need-to-know-about-what-pope-francis-said-about-gays

[Paladin]

11. "...the enlightened view of government...."

Coming from Cruz, those words ring kind of hollow, don't they?