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Title: Rev. Cruz: If Gay Marriage is ‘Civil Right,’ Gov’t Will Force Pastors to Obey ‘Unjust’ Law or ‘Obey God and Face Prison’
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URL Source: http://cnsnews.com/node/908001
Published: Apr 9, 2015
Author: Michael W. Chapman
Post Date: 2015-04-09 18:06:48 by out damned spot
Keywords: Rev. Cruz, gay marriage, prison
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Comments: 23
If gay marriage is legally viewed as a “civil rights issue,” as may happen with the Supreme Court’s ruling on the subject in June, then it becomes a broader religious liberty concern, not just a marriage issue, said Reverend Rafael Cruz, adding that then pastors will have to choose between obeying an “unjust” law and obeying God and potentially going to prison.
Pastor Cruz, who is the father of Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), made his remarks during an interview with conservative leader Phyllis Schlafly on her radio program “Eagle Forum Live.”
“We need to realize that the attack on marriage is more than just an attack on marriage, it actually goes to the heart of religious freedom,” said Pastor Cruz.
“Because, you see, what is going to come next -- and this is part of the danger of what may happen out of the Supreme Court in June -- is that if marriage of anybody-with-anybody becomes a civil rights issue,” he said, “then they are going to come to churches and force pastors to violate their religious convictions.”
“And so it is going to come to America to where a pastor is going to be faced with a decision: Do you obey a law that is not only unjust but violates your core principles, or do you obey God and face prison?” said Pastor Cruz.
“This is the dilemma that America’s pastors are going to be facing, if this issue is labeled a civil rights issue,” he said. “It goes way beyond marriage to actually violate the religious freedom of people of faith.”
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether state bans on homosexual marriage are constitutional. Currently, same-sex marriage is legal in 37 states and illegal in 13 states.
Rev. Rafael Cruz fought against the Communists in Cuba, was arrested there and tortured. He fled the island in 1957 at age 18. He eventually settled in Texas and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2005. His Dallas-based church also operates Christian ministries in Mexico and Central America. His wife, Eleanor Wilson Cruz, was born in Wilmington, Del.
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#2. To: out damned spot (#0) (Edited)
Rev. Rafael Cruz fought against the Communists in Cuba, was arrested there and tortured. He fled the island in 1957 at age 18.He eventually settled in Texas
He was arrested by Batista for being a communist.
He was a well known pro-Castro activist in Austin Texas.
Fidel Castro and the Father of US Presidential Candidate Ted Cruz
Rafael Cruz (center) holding a pro-Castro sign during a rally in Texas in January of 1959.
#5. To: hondo68 (#2) (Edited)
Ok...now you're going full Alinsky? I suppose there are many questions about that k00k Daddy Ron that should now be associated with Rand?
And *his* issues start loooong after the mid-20th century.
#7. To: Liberator, guerilla Cruz, out damned spot (#5) (Edited)
“He was a guerilla, throwing Molotov cocktails and blowing up buildings,” Ted Cruz told the Austin American-Statesman for a profile published in January 2006.Cruz said he hasn’t misled.
“I have many, many times described the full context of his fighting with [Fidel] Castro — in the broader sense, … not side by side, but on the same side as Castro,” he said.
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2011/10/ted-cruz-background-as-son-of.html/
Facts are stubborn things, and Raffie Sr. was a guerilla in the Cuban revolution.
Why bother trying to deny it, or lying that he was an anti-communist fighter? It's just not true. The kid pretty much had to choose between two crappy dictators, so there was really no hope of a good end, in Cuba.
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Raffie Sr. was a guerilla in the Cuban revolution.
Uhuh. And what happened after that?
#17. To: hondo68, out damned spot (#7)
Facts are stubborn things, and Raffie Sr. was a guerilla in the Cuban revolution.Why bother trying to deny it, or lying that he was an anti-communist fighter? It's just not true. The kid pretty much had to choose between two crappy dictators, so there was really no hope of a good end, in Cuba.
Yes, as you admit, "the kid pretty much had to choose between two crappy dictators." Except at the time, Castro wasn't yet the bloody dictator he became. Instead he'd been peddling an idealist egalitarianism that opposed Batista's rampant corruption and oppressive regime. Cruz's father can't be blamed for the monster Castro became. And NEITHER should Ted Cruz be smeared by association, nor in this manner.
No one is denying your "facts." Just the relevance and timing of the elder Cruz's situational politics some 60 years ago, and without any context. The story NOT revealed: The US gubmint, State Dept, and media ALL didn't deem Castro that badly. In fact he was regarded as a potential reformer and puppet. His goals were seemingly egalitarian, but quickly changed once he took power as one more bloody, totalitarian Commie. THAT is NOT the Fidel Castro Cruz's father supported.
But MOST of all, WHY should this "revelation" be a reflection on Ted Cruz and his candidacy? Or his commitment to restoring honor and dignity to the office of the Presidency; his high level of morals and ethics, and his commitment to restoring respect of the US Constitution and of this broken nation?
Hondo, if you're going to try and advance your favorite candidate -- Rand Paul -- try doing so on merit and issues, and NOT Alinsky-ing him. Leave that BS and propaganda for the Left and it's minions.
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