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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUS Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX): Anti-Gay Civil Disobedience May Be Needed To Resist Alinskyite Dems
Conservative talk show host Steve Deace has been focusing his program over the last couple weeks on what he calls the rainbow jihad of gay rights, in particular the situation in Houston involving a lawsuit filed by Religious Right activists attempting to take down the citys nondiscrimination ordinance. On his program yesterday, Deace welcomed the self-appointed star of the Houston dust-up, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who told him that pro-equality Democratic lawmakers are waging an Alinsky-inspired plot to silence dissent and that anti-gay conservatives may soon have to resort to civil disobedience.
The problem is the modern Democratic Party, the professional politician, whether it is Democratic senators in Washington or whether it is the mayor or the city council members in the city of Houston, they have gotten so extreme that their objective is not to win an argument but it is instead to try to silence dissent and to crush and destroy anyone they deem to be their political opponent, Cruz said. You know, Saul Alinsky, who both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton studied carefully, Saul Alinsky said you never want to debate your opponent because it humanizes them, he continued. Instead you simply want to silence them. And that is the reality of the modern Democratic party, the elected politicians.
Later in the interview, Deace asked Cruz if we are coming to the point where anti-gay conservatives will have to participate in organized civil disobedience like that of the civil rights movement. Well, listen, if government tries to silence pastors, if government tries to force believers to violate their faith, it is my hope that believers honor their faith and disregard unjust edicts from government, Cruz responded.
- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ted-cruz-anti-gay-civil-disobedience-may-be-needed-resist-alinskyite-democrats#sthash.AA0zjsGZ.dpuf
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)in 2016.
big_dog
(4,144 posts)Christie is too thin skinned and will never get past the wingnut primaries, too much Bush fatigue for Jebby and voters have had enough of far right wing Newtie and Sanitorium
arcane1
(38,613 posts)big_dog
(4,144 posts)Huckster will own the south and Paul will try and take the rest
underpants
(182,762 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,444 posts)upaloopa
(11,417 posts)that homophobia is not dead
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)I am very glad that the heterosexuals on DU get to see what their cohort is up to. They all partake of the privilege. They all need to see the cost, and understand that they are in fact to a large degree defined by the very worst among them in the eyes of those who are not crazed bigots.
Kingofalldems
(38,444 posts)spanone
(135,816 posts)accepting their gay friends and family members, this guy represents bigots and assholes...i.e. the republcian party
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)discrimination. That's most of the country. The entire South. That's not acceptance.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)At least they're up-front about it
LeftInTX
(25,230 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)upaloopa
(11,417 posts)and against civil disobedience. That's what they want in children's history classes.
randome
(34,845 posts)So you try, Mr. Cruz, try really, really hard to be heterosexual.
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JI7
(89,246 posts)when they have enough people there voting for someone like ted Cruz it's not just a matter of issues or even personal appeal which davis has .
Chan790
(20,176 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)you are acting like the KKK. That's not civil disobedience, it is organized crime.
mikehiggins
(5,614 posts)I can only guess SA would love how important his words have become. People like Cruz have no idea how effective his ideas are.
Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)Drink!