Ted Cruz: Gay business owners should be able to discriminate against

Republican senator and presidential hopeful Ted Cruz recently hosted what he called a Rally for Religious Liberty.

The ad is designed to scare conservatives into believing the federal government will order them to “change their religious beliefs or lose their livelihood”.

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Cruz has been positioning himself as the champion of religious liberty and defender of the conservative Christians he says are the targets of a “jihad” by gay-rights activists and an “atheist Taliban”.

Being subtle is one thing, but an all out attack is different.

Evangelical voters are courted every presidential election by Republicans, especially in Iowa. “They are fed up with politicians who don’t do what they say“, Cruz said. The mayor also said that Cochran had opened Atlanta to possible discrimination lawsuits.

With so many debates over civil rights, I begin to wonder if Cruz and many Americans have forgotten what the words actually mean. “But what is clear is that the party is having trouble capturing the presidency in part because it has splintered as it struggles to find its identity going forward”.

“I think that’s the risk, and that’s what you see in Cruz”, Parry said. “I am urging you to confront this evil in our nation by praying and preaching with an unbridled passion until funding for Planned Parenthood ends, and this barbaric practice is purged from the land”.

Other candidates may be wooing evangelicals, but none has worked those voters quite as hard as Cruz.

“An bad lot of parents within the media, an awful lot of parents in Hollywood, they dismiss the assault on spiritual liberty”, Cruz stated.

The irony of Cruz’s insistence that the government stop persecuting its citizens is that the citizens in question were all caught persecuting others.

A crowd of over 2,500 men, women and young children turned out for the three-plus hour event. “It is because 54 million evangelical Christians stayed home [in the 2012 elections]”.

There are these zealots – as you put it, the atheist Taliban – that seek to tear down any acknowledgment of God in the public square, and it’s contrary to our Constitution, it’s contrary to who we are as a people. As do the trends for Mike Huckabee and Jeb Bush. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, are also vying for the evangelical vote, as are Dr. Ben Carson and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

As Cruz mingled at the fundraiser in the Zone, a group of about 20 protestors opposed to his immigration stance marched below in front of the stadium entrance chanting “cross Cruz out of the race”, “up, up with education; down, down with deportation” and other slogans. To boost his numbers, Cruz has lately utilized a time-honored GOP strategy in which Trump has declined to engage: gay bashing. A centerpiece of his campaign for the White House has been a message that the U.S. needs more laws to protect Christians who want to discriminate against gays. Lane’s American Renewal Project operates under the AFA’s umbrella, and Cruz sounded like he was reading Lane’s talking points.

GONYEA: And, Parry says, it gives Cruz an issue where he can get attention even as much of the field is caught up in the Donald Trump storyline.

According to Cruz – and this seems to be his campaign theme – “There is a war on faith in America today”.