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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI thought Trump was bad. Cruz wants to exterminate gays?
I heard someone mention this. He said that?
dchill
(38,546 posts)It's his religion!
ladjf
(17,320 posts)liberal N proud
(60,346 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)Sown, as in planted.
yourout
(7,534 posts)Trump has not intention of doing half the shit he says....
Cruz only says half of the shit he wants to do...
Cruz is a scary mother fucker.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)And that difference is Yuuuuge!
Cruz is very scary.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)This is exactly why I find Cruz so much more horrifying than Trump. Trump is all hat, no cattle. Cruz is the anti-Christ.
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)He backs 'preachers' who say the words for him.
dembotoz
(16,844 posts)just sayin
undergroundpanther
(11,925 posts)Wants to kill gays i want out of this country .icant handle fascism.
edhopper
(33,623 posts)alp227
(32,060 posts)mgcgulfcoast
(1,127 posts)Did he repudiate this filth? has anyone even challenged him on this?
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)The only reason he is still around is that everyone is so focused on bringing down Trump, they are ignoring the bigger danger in Cruz
mgcgulfcoast
(1,127 posts)FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)There are dozens of threads bashing Trump, but Cruz is slipping by with hardly any notice.
It's getting scary that even here, people are lining up to go after Trump without realizing that Cruz is next in line and laughing in the wings.
mgcgulfcoast
(1,127 posts)killing gays? Why arent we up in arms??? Is MSNBC even covering this?
ecstatic
(32,733 posts)I don't watch her show regularly, but she's covered Ted's relationship with anti-gay extremists several times. A lot of people on DU have boycotted her show so they wouldn't know about it. She appears to be the only journalist who has been monitoring the situation.
That being said, trump and Cruz are equally scary, unfortunately. And for different but equally scary reasons.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)November 2015:
Ted Cruz and the Anti-Gay Pastor
By KATHERINE STEWART NOV. 16, 2015
EARLIER this month, in Des Moines, the prominent home-schooling advocate and pastor Kevin Swanson again called for the punishment of homosexuality by death. To be clear, he added that the time for eliminating Americas gay population was not yet at hand. We must wait for the nation to embrace the one true religion, he suggested, and gay people must be allowed to repent and convert.
Mr. Swanson proposed this at the National Religious Liberties Conference, an event he organized. Featured speakers included three Republican contenders for the presidency: the former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/opinion/campaign-stops/ted-cruz-and-the-anti-gay-pastor.html
Ted Cruz Has Nada to Say About Conference Host Who Wants Gays Killed: WATCH
http://www.towleroad.com/2015/11/ted-cruz-kevin-swanson/
CNN's Jake Tapper asked the U.S. senator from Texas: 'are you not endorsing conservative intolerance?' But instead of a straight answer, he got deflection.
By Dawn Ennis
November 07 2015 8:00 AM EST
http://www.advocate.com/election/2015/11/07/watch-ted-cruz-dodges-cnns-question-about-antigay-pastor
Feb 2016:
Ted Cruz embraces apocalyptic preachers and anti-gay militants
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-cruz-embraces-apocalyptic-preachers-20160205-story.html
LA Times, NY Times, LGBT Press, Straight Press, and no one is citing Maddow as source because she's not a source, she's a pundit.
Albertoo
(2,016 posts)What I don't get is how he gets elected at the Senate. Most people hate his guts. Republican senators hates Cruz's guts. His face shows what an opinionated weasel he is. Probably worse even than GW, and that's the pits in my book.
ileus
(15,396 posts)pampango
(24,692 posts)Cruz apparently wants mass extermination of others here 'illegally' - since being gay in the US would be 'illegal'.