GOP’s Ted Cruz calls religious liberty a defining issue

[DonViejo]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz says concerns about religious freedom could unite Republicans and rally conservative Democrats to the GOP in 2016.

The Republican presidential candidate told an audience in Sioux City, Iowa, on Wednesday that a new Indiana law is awakening like-minded voters of various political stripes.

Speaking in Republican-heavy northwest Iowa’s evangelical hub, Cruz says religious liberty “is not some fringe view” and that “courageous conservatives” need to stand up for it.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed a law giving heightened protections to businesses that object on religious grounds to providing certain services. Critics say the law discriminates against gays, and it’s drawing threats of boycotts and other economic actions.

Read more: http://www.salon.com/2015/04/01/gops_ted_cruz_calls_religious_liberty_a_defining_issue/

[rurallib]

1. Missed it by a mile Teddy boy

Americans are slowly waking up to how badly they are getting screwed with low wages while the rich get richer and richer.

[chillfactor]

2. Cruz...

dummer than the dumbest around...

[arcane1]

3. Then it's official: he's going nowhere.

[villager]

4. Please proceed, Senator

n/t

[Mr.Bill]

5. "Rally conservative Democrats to the GOP"

[Dawson Leery]

11. Grand Wizard Strom left for the GOP 50 years ago.

[Mr.Bill]

14. That was then.

Today's Grand Wizard already belongs to the GOP. Probably holds a local position of authority like Sheriff, Police Chief or Mayor.

[Efilroft Sul]

6. If discrimination is the hill on which he chooses his campaign to die, so be it.

More people see Indiana's RFRA for what it really is instead of what the social conservatives claim it to be.

[appalachiablue]

7. Religious liberty, the paramount issue of our time? Over income inequality, the loss of democratic

institutions, climate change, civil rights, jobs, health care, affordable education and opportunity, the declining middle class, oppression of the poor and minorities, and more? Someone has to be very isolated or very well off financially to consider religion 'the defining issue'. What reality is Cruz living in, and Santorum, who claims the ills derive from communism. Madness-

[niyad]

8. the persecuted class

. . . .

A pop quiz for you, truthseekers: What group of American citizens is the one most likely to have its civil rights denied; the segment of the US population that is suffering the most from this denial; the one group among all the various and diverse subdivisions of race, religion, ethnicity, gender or sexual identity that cries out the loudest and longest for redress of their grievances?

Well, according to the most influential, most politically and economically powerful, the one group always found at the top of any pyramid of power in the US – it is them: White, male and Christian.

What? You are shaking your head in disagreement? You are thinking Mike Malloy has lost his mind? Really?

And, yet, if you listen to and watch these poor wretched souls as they whine and screech and pass laws protecting them from their tormentors, you begin to realize how far over the edge into religious madness these charlatans have taken themselves.

In the past couple of weeks we have seen the various states under the control of these white, male Christians frantically writing legislation in a desperate attempt to stem the tide of discrimination constantly applied to them. They are no longer given carte blanche to practice their own bigotry, to follow the blessed traditions they hold sacred and dear. The right to prevent people of the same sex from marrying is no longer theirs. The right to beat “their” women has become a matter for law enforcement. The privilege of injuring their unruly children will now result in a jail term. The decision to deny people access to public accommodations because of their sexual orientation is no longer theirs. The power of telling people of color they must have their papers in order if they want to vote is under legal attack.

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– MM


http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026448557

[hibbing]

9. alternative universe

Totally agree with you, it is absolutely nuts. I live in the Midwest and in my town they keep building these gigantic churches that must hold a Brazillion people each. Just how are Christians being persecuted in this country?

Peace

[trusty elf]

16. It's gotten so bad....

that there is a "Christian Martyr Nite" at the Astrodome!

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[Gothmog]

10. Carnival Cruz is a nut case.

This may a good issue for Carnival Cruz because he is running to be the non-establishment alternative to Jeb or Scott Walker. Carnival Cruz has to appeal to the nutcases who make up the gop base

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. Which he defines as the freedom to hate.

[olddots]

13. the guy is a human stool sample

that somehow utters incoherent blather .

[SoapBox]

15. What a load of shit...

Pandering to the paranoid and STOOPID crowd.

Hey Cruz...when exactly was the last time anyone stopped you from going to church?

Oh...never.

[truthisfreedom]

17. I call freedom from religion the most defining issue of our time

Cruz off asshole.

[NutmegYankee]

18. He must have grown up watching George Wallace on TV.

He saw the "angry man in the schoolhouse door" and said "I want to be just like that guy!"

[Paulie]

19. Looks more like religious tyranny than liberty

[sendero]

20. These jackasses are going mental..

.... over the gay marriage thing. Their idea of "religious liberty" is forcing their idiotic beliefs on everyone else. Good luck with that tard boy.

[Vinca]

21. Paranoid delusions of persecution, pure and simple.

To hear Cruz talk you'd think ISIS was roaming the Bible belt rounding up the "believers" (not to be confused with "Beliebers" who are equally bright).

[IronLionZion]

22. Do it Ted!

Sometimes I wonder if Ted Cruz exists mainly to make others appear more mainstream.