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

[TexasTowelie]

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."

Read more: http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/ted_cruz_says_gays_should_stop_advocating_for_marriage_because_isis

[betterdemsonly]

1. If Ted hates Isis so much he shouldn't have agitated Obama to overthrow Assad. n/t

[Scootaloo]

3. That makes no sense n/t

[betterdemsonly]

5. You either think overthrowing Assad was a good idea or

you don't think the effort helped Isis?

[Scootaloo]

6. I read before you edited

Makes much more sense now!

[Behind the Aegis]

2. I have heard it before, just not from that loon.

[Hugin]

4. I would have thought it was because, Obama.

I really must learn to keep up with the dog whistles. I stopped listening during liberal.

[DetlefK]

7. Christians Should Stop Advocating For Equal Rights Because ISIS

You Christians in the US should be happy. ISIS is executing Christians. You Christians should be thankful for that not happening here, but NOOOOOO, you always demand more.

[Takket]

8. Maybe Cruz shouldn't run for president.

Under the same logic.... Look how good he's got it already!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

9. +1

[Bluenorthwest]

10. It's a vile comment but not all that unusual, I've been told on DU by fans of the Pope that we gay

people should be glad they are not burning us at the stake anymore. That was should no longer advocate for equality because it hinders elections in horrible Red States. The morning after the last election a DUer who is still here posted this:
"The openness and brazenness of the LBGT agenda and the media flaunting of gay marriages all across the country cost Dems dearly and threatens to do so in the future."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025764803#post45