Ted Cruz: Gays Should Stop Advocating For Equal Rights Because, ISIS

Ted Cruz thinks the existence of ISIS should make same-sex marriage supporters realize just how good they have it now.

Ted Cruz spent time with high-value donors in a private meeting Tuesday but was confronted by the media after the event. Reporters asked the 2016 Republican presidential candidate several questions about gay people and same-sex marriage, eliciting a rambling and frustrated response.

“Is there something about the left — and I am going to put the media in this category — that is obsessed with sex?,” Cruz asked, as the Texas Tribune reported. Reporters actually weren’t asking about sex, but rather same-sex marriage, which may reveal a clue about Cruz’s thought processes on the issue.

“ISIS is executing homosexuals — you want to talk about gay rights? This week was a very bad week for gay rights because the expansion of ISIS, the expansion of radical, theocratic, Islamic zealots that crucify Christians, that behead children and that murder homosexuals — that ought to be concerning you far more than asking six questions all on the same topic.”

Salon labeled Cruz’s response “an amalgam of Islamophobia, religiosity, and a not-particularly-sensible shot at the left that included something about The Children.”

While there is no question the rise of ISIS, a murdering regime, poses a huge worldwide threat to human rights and human life, that doesn’t mean human rights advances in America and elsewhere should cease as a result.

The Tribune reports that Cruz believes his anti-gay stance, especially on same-sex marriage, won’t negatively affect his chances with moderate voters. 

A poll released yesterday by Gallup found that one in four Americans say their presidential candidate must have the same views on marriage as they do. It also found an all-time high support for same-sex marriage, including a huge seven-point jump among Republicans in just one year.

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Cruz also took the opportunity to slam MSNBC, telling reporters, “I would suggest not drawing your questions from MSNBC. They have very few viewers and they are a radical and extreme partisan outlet.” Cruz, the Tribune adds, “cited the expansion of ‘mandatory same-sex marriage’ as an assault on religious liberty in the United States.”

 

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