Ted Cruz: Freedom won’t survive unless we deny gay people theirs

[DonViejo]

The Republicans' anti-gay rock star explains why states must be allowed to ban marriage equality

LUKE BRINKER

Continuing his long-running crusade against marriage equality, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told an Iowa radio host Monday that liberty is imperiled unless Congress passes his amendment allowing states to deny gay couples the right to marry.

“If the citizens of the state of Iowa or the citizens of the state of Texas want to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman … the states have the constitutional authority to do so and the federal government and unelected judges cannot set aside the democratically elected legislature’s reasonable decisions to enact and protect traditional marriage,” Cruz told radio host Jan Mickelson.

The likely 2016 presidential candidate added, “If the courts were following the Constitution, we shouldn’t need a new amendment, but they are, as you put it quite rightly, making it up right now and it’s a real danger to our liberty.”

One might ask about the liberty of gay couples who wish to form marital bonds, but it appears that his views on the matter were molded by his crackpot father, who is rather fond of the notion that ex-gay “therapy” can bring gay people back to the “Christian, biblical standpoint.”

more + audio recording:
http://www.salon.com/2015/03/10/ted_cruz_freedom_wont_survive_unless_we_deny_gay_people_theirs/

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Is Cruz a lawyer? A Constitutional lawyer?

Wherein does he draw his expertise on Constitutional law?

[DonViejo]

5. Yes...

After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995 with a Juris Doctor degree.[6][39] While at Harvard Law, Cruz was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.[5] Referring to Cruz's time as a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, "Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant."[18][40] At Harvard Law, Cruz was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.[41]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz

[hifiguy]

8. Which means he can not be this stupid.

I graduated from the same law school and while I met a number of assholes there I only met one person there who I would call dumb. There is no way to graduate magna from HLS if you're stupid. Which leads me to think something much more sinister than stupidity is behind Cruz' insane statements.

[Faygo Kid]

2. "If (they) define marriage as the union of a white man and white woman, they have that right."

Paraphrasing to fit the headline, obviously. But you get my drift.

[edhopper]

3. If the State of Texas

wants to define marriage as only between to white people or two black people....

Right Ted?

[haele]

6. I suspect he wouldn't care if the black people got married, unless they went to his church.

Marriage, after all, "is an institution ordained by God" for godly people, and those low folks who are going to hell anyway don't matter. If they get married, or whatever they want to do, so long as they do it circumspectly out of sight and don't bother the real people, who really cares?

There's a particular brand of apostolic thought that believes that showing mercy and charity to the poor and the afflicted who aren't members of your church (or social class) is going against the will of God. And Ted Cruz's dad is one of the elect in one of those.

Marriage is only legal between a man and a woman of a certain class and religion. Everyone else can just disappear as soon as they become a burden or their backs and hands are no longer needed to do the labor for the chosen people.

Haele

[BeeBee]

4. I just wanted to issue a formal apology...

for the death of Freedom. Sorry. My fault.

[NuclearDem]

7. I'm getting so tired of this piece of shit.

[Initech]

9. Isn't that the exact opposite of what freedom means?

[spanone]

10. idgit ***pic warning***