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big_dog

(4,144 posts)
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 03:56 PM Oct 2014

US 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 city’s 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

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US Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX): Anti-Gay Civil Disobedience May Be Needed To Resist Alinskyite Dems (Original Post) big_dog Oct 2014 OP
If the right field is cleared, this nut will be the Republican nominee Dawson Leery Oct 2014 #1
i agree its him, Rand Paul or Huckleberry in 2016 big_dog Oct 2014 #2
I suspect moderate, sane republicans will grow tired of his smarmy face, and quickly. arcane1 Oct 2014 #7
thats why I think it will be a wingnut showdown between Huckleberry and Paul big_dog Oct 2014 #13
The Calgary Kid needs to contact Louie Gohmert - he is working on an Army of massaged gorillas underpants Oct 2014 #3
What's with the RW gay attack threads? Kingofalldems Oct 2014 #4
Information? I'll glad they are pointing out upaloopa Oct 2014 #12
People need to know that there are thugs making threats. Bluenorthwest Oct 2014 #14
I don't think that's what is going on in this particular case. Kingofalldems Oct 2014 #15
he lives in a world that doesn't exist for the main part. americans are moving on. spanone Oct 2014 #5
Sort of. 29 States have zero protection in employment or housing for LGBT people, legal Bluenorthwest Oct 2014 #18
Using the techniques of the civil rights movement to protest civil rights. arcane1 Oct 2014 #6
Right Wing anti-gay civil disobediance sounds like a form of violence. LeftInTX Oct 2014 #8
We'll reserve two Port-A-Potties pinboy3niner Oct 2014 #9
I thought the right was all about respecting the law upaloopa Oct 2014 #10
Isn't 'anti-gay' heterosexual? Like matter is the opposite of anti-matter? randome Oct 2014 #11
and people wonder why it's difficult for Wendy Davis and other Dems to win in that State JI7 Oct 2014 #16
Anti-Asshole Civil Disobedience May Be Needed To Resist Ted Cruz. n/t Chan790 Oct 2014 #17
When you organize to oppose a minority group, you are not acting like the civil rights movement Bluenorthwest Oct 2014 #19
Alinsky is dead, Ted. Didn't you get the memo? mikehiggins Oct 2014 #20
Alinsky! Dirty Socialist Oct 2014 #21
 

big_dog

(4,144 posts)
2. i agree its him, Rand Paul or Huckleberry in 2016
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 03:59 PM
Oct 2014

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

 

big_dog

(4,144 posts)
13. thats why I think it will be a wingnut showdown between Huckleberry and Paul
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 04:22 PM
Oct 2014

Huckster will own the south and Paul will try and take the rest

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
14. People need to know that there are thugs making threats.
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 05:22 PM
Oct 2014

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.

spanone

(135,816 posts)
5. he lives in a world that doesn't exist for the main part. americans are moving on.
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 04:05 PM
Oct 2014

accepting their gay friends and family members, this guy represents bigots and assholes...i.e. the republcian party

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
18. Sort of. 29 States have zero protection in employment or housing for LGBT people, legal
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 05:34 PM
Oct 2014

discrimination. That's most of the country. The entire South. That's not acceptance.

 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
6. Using the techniques of the civil rights movement to protest civil rights.
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 04:07 PM
Oct 2014

At least they're up-front about it

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)
10. I thought the right was all about respecting the law
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 04:16 PM
Oct 2014

and against civil disobedience. That's what they want in children's history classes.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
11. Isn't 'anti-gay' heterosexual? Like matter is the opposite of anti-matter?
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 04:18 PM
Oct 2014

So you try, Mr. Cruz, try really, really hard to be heterosexual.


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JI7

(89,246 posts)
16. and people wonder why it's difficult for Wendy Davis and other Dems to win in that State
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 05:25 PM
Oct 2014

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 .

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
19. When you organize to oppose a minority group, you are not acting like the civil rights movement
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 05:37 PM
Oct 2014

you are acting like the KKK. That's not civil disobedience, it is organized crime.

mikehiggins

(5,614 posts)
20. Alinsky is dead, Ted. Didn't you get the memo?
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 06:33 PM
Oct 2014

I can only guess SA would love how important his words have become. People like Cruz have no idea how effective his ideas are.

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