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Title: Ted Cruz expresses support for Indiana's 'religious freedom' law
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Published: Mar 31, 2015
Author: Hunter Walker
Post Date: 2015-03-31 07:27:38 by no gnu taxes
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) weighed in on one of the week's most hot button political controversies with a statement issued late Monday evening expressing support for Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) and the state's proposed "religious freedom" law.
Critics have said Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which was signed by Pence last week, would allow discrimination against lesbians and gays. Its supporters, including Pence, have denied this and said it simply promotes religious freedom.
In his statement, Cruz, who launched his 2016 presidential campaign last Monday, described the law as an effort to support "religious liberty."
"I want to commend Governor Mike Pence for his support of religious freedom, especially in the face of fierce opposition. There was a time, not too long ago, when defending religious liberty enjoyed strong bipartisan support. Alas, today we are facing a concerted assault on the First Amendment, on the right of every American to seek out and worship God according to the dictates of his or her conscience," Cruz said. "Governor Pence is holding the line to protect religious liberty in the Hoosier State. Indiana is giving voice to millions of courageous conservatives across this country who are deeply concerned about the ongoing attacks upon our personal liberties. I'm proud to stand with Mike, and I urge Americans to do the same."
Since he officially launched his White House bid last week, Cruz has made it clear he hopes to appeal to grassroots conservatives and the religious right. Pence has said he's also considering running for president.
Legal experts have been divided on the impact of the law, which will take effect July 1. Many supporters say it was simply designed to make it more difficult for the government to interfere with peoples' religious practices. Some opponents argue it would allow individuals to use religion as an excuse to deny housing, employment, or services to gays and lesbians.
The law has led to widespread backlash from business leaders, politicians, and even celebrities.
Last Saturday, Pence told the Indianapolis Star newspaper that he would try to find "a way to clarify the intent of the law" to make clear that it does not promote discrimination. However, in an interview with ABC the following day, he declined to address whether the law would allow anti-gay discrimination. On Monday, the Republican leaders of the Legislature said they would find a fix to "clarify" the law and make clear it is not discriminatory.
As of this writing, Cruz's campaign has not responded to an email asking whether he supports the law being clarified.
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#1. To: no gnu taxes (#0)
Except neither one said anything like that. You are the one saying that. Are you just trying to troll up LF to make it radioactive in the search engines?
Both Cruz and Pence agree that businesses have the right to tell faggots to go somewhere else. That's a good thing.
Now you're just lying.
That's exactly what they are saying. It just includes other behavior that is inconsistent with business owners' religion, too.
I just saw Pence on FNC's morning show and he explicitly denied all of that. Reading a couple of sentences and deciding that is some great pretext for false-titling a thread with the word "faggot" in it is ridiculous. And that is all you have done. Try a search for "Ted Cruz faggots". LF pops up as #2 in the search results. Congrats, you've dirtied up Cruz (and LF) in the search engines based on your own ignorance of what he said. And LF is the #1 search result for "Pence faggots". Nice work. Given that Stone won't restrict the search spiders from harvesting info on every thread at LF, you two are actually causing harm to both Pence and Cruz by putting such entries in the search engines.
I don't get how conservatives have become so trailer trash crass.
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He doesn't want to be black." -- California State Senator Diane Watson's on Ward Connerly's interracial marriage Comments From The Past "Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds." -- Former Klansman and current US Senator Robert Byrd, a man who is referred to by many Democrats as the "conscience of the Senate", in a letter written in 1944, after he quit the KKK. "I am a former kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County and the adjoining counties of the state .... The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia .... It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state of the Union. Will you please inform me as to the possibilities of rebuilding the Klan in the Realm of W. Va .... I hope that you will find it convenient to answer my letter in regards to future possibilities." -- Former Klansman and current US Senator Robert Byrd, a man who is referred to by many Democrats as the "conscience of the Senate", in a letter written in 1946, after he quit the KKK. "These laws [segregation] are still constitutional and I promise you that until they are removed from the ordinance books of Birmingham and the statute books of Alabama, they will be enforced in Birmingham to the utmost of my ability and by all lawful means." -- Democrat Bull Connor (1957), Commissioner of Public Safety for Birmingham, Alabama "I'll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years." -- Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One according Ronald Kessler's Book, "Inside The White House" (On New York) "K*ketown." -- Harry Truman in a personal letter "There’s some people who’ve gone over the state and said, ‘Well, George Wallace has talked too strong about segregation.’ Now let me ask you this: how in the name of common sense can you be too strong about it? You’re either for it or you’re against it. There’s not any middle ground as I know of." -- Democratic Alabama Governor George Wallace (1959) On Jews "You f*cking Jew b@stard." -- Hillary Clinton to political operative Paul Fray. This was revealed in "State of a Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton" and has been verified by Paul Fray and three witnesses. "The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He rose Germany up from the ashes." -- Louis Farrakhan (1984) who campaigned for congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in 2002 "Now that nation called Israel, never has had any peace in forty years and she will never have any peace because there can never be any peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of God to shield your dirty religion under his holy and righteous name." -- Louis Farrakhan who campaigned for congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in 2002, 1984 'Hymies.' 'Hymietown.' -- Jesse Jackson's description of New York City while on the 1984 presidential campaign trail. "Jews — that's J-E-W-S." -- Democratic state representative Bill McKinney on why his daughter Cynthia lost in 2002 On Whites "I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health." -- Charles Barron, a New York city councilman at a reparations rally, 2002 "Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them." -- Mary Frances Berry, Chairwoman, US Commission on Civil Rights (I) "will not let the white boys win in this election." -- Donna Brazile, Al Gore's Campaign Manager on the 2000 election "The old white boys got taken fair and square." -- San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown after winning an election "There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time." -- Former Klansman and Current US Senator Robert Byrd, a man who is referred to by many Democrats as the "conscience of the Senate" in March of 2001 "The Medicaid system must have been developed by a white male slave owner. It pays for you to be pregnant and have a baby, but it won't pay for much family planning." -- Jocelyn Elders The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the lake of fire prepared for him from the beginning, that he never rise again to give any innocent black man, woman or child the hell that he has delighted in pouring on us for 400 years." -- Louis Farrakhan who campaigned for congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in 2002, City College audience in New York "There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there." -- USA Today columnist Julienne Malveaux "We have lost to the white racist press and to the racist reactionary Jewish misleaders." -- Former Rep. Gus Savage (D-Illinois) after his defeat 1992 "White folks was in caves while we was building empires... We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it." -- Rev. Al Sharpton in a 1994 speech at Kean College, NJ, cited in "Democrats Do the Dumbest Things "The white race is the cancer of human history." -- Susan Sontag "Reparations are a really good way for white people to admit they're wrong." -- Zack Webb, University Of Kentucky NAACP Wow Democrat's... We Hardly Knew Ya! - Do you remember those quotes?
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestTitle: Ted Cruz Joins Pence in Telling Faggots to go Somewhere Else
#2. To: TooConservative (#1)
#4. To: no gnu taxes (#2)
Both Cruz and Pence agree that businesses have the right to tell faggots to go somewhere else.
Indiana's RFRA is not a license to discriminate against Teh Gays. Since the flap, the legislators will be passing an explicit anti-discriminatory law to further protect Teh Gays. And Pence will sign it. I begin to wonder if you even understand the actual issues here.
'I Abhor Discrimination': Gov. Pence Pins Need for Indiana ...
#7. To: TooConservative (#4)
Both Cruz and Pence agree that businesses have the right to tell faggots to go somewhere else.
#8. To: no gnu taxes, A K A Stone (#7)
That's exactly what they are saying. It just includes other behavior that is inconsistent with business owners' religion, too.
#9. To: TooConservative, no gnu taxes, A K A Stone (#8)
#19. To: Pericles (#9)
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