Ted Cruz is gearing up for a White House run in 2016, and so he’s been in Iowa — where all Republican presidential campaigns launch — warning evangelical Christians about same-sex marriage. Iowa has offered same-sex couples marriage equality since 2009.
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Claiming that America is “facing an assault on marriage,” Cruz, the junior Tea Party Republican U.S. Senator from Texas, told supporters at a summit organized by the American Family Association‘s secret kingmaker, David Lane, that “[o]n marriage, there is no issue in which we need to be more on our knees because the momentum is with the opponents of traditional marriage.”
He also called last month’s Supreme Court ruling on Prop 8, “an abject demonstration of judicial activism,” apparently because the Court decided the plaintiffs did not have standing, so it could not take the case.
Here’s how Cruz mischaracterized the decision:
Five unelected judges saying we are going to set aside the policy preference of the state of California, the citizens not of some crazy right-wing state—California. The citizens of California went to vote and they voted and said in the state of California we want marriage to be the traditional union of one man and one woman, and the US Supreme Court, as a result of its decision said you have no right to define marriage in your state, we know better.
Ironically, Cruz is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is entrusted with confirmation of all federal judges, including those “unelected” ones that are voted on by the Senate. The Senate, Cruz apparently forgot, is elected directly by the people.
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Hat tip: Right Wing Watch
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