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Ted Cruz vows to fight marriage equality
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz will not rest until marriage equality is no longer nationwide. In a South Carolina campaign stop. the Texas senator railed against the Supreme Court and its ruling on marriage rights.
‘This is not settled,’ Cruz said yesterday, 14 November, during a speech at Bob Jones University, according to Greenville Online. ‘It’s not the law of the land. It’s not the Constitution. It’s not legitimate, and we will stand and fight.’
The conservative candidate reminded the audience marriage is ‘left to the states and left to the people.’
Yesterday’s event was called the Rally for Religious Liberty and showcased numerous anti-LGBTI speakers, including Kevin Swanson. The pastor has called for the death of gays and lesbians and for the US to repent because of the sexuality of Dumbledore, the fictional character in the Harry Potter series. This past summer, as Right Wing Watch notes, Swanson insisted ‘the homosexual borg, is the power in the principality of the demonic world itself.’
Cruz exhorted the audience to get out and make a difference in the upcoming election for the White House.
‘When we stand together the truth is mightier than the lies,’ Cruz said, according to Greenville Online. ‘The light is stronger than the darkness. And let me give you the fact that absolutely terrifies them: There are more of us than there are of them.’
According to a 4 November Quinnipiac University poll, Cruz is holding steady in the crowded GOP field. Donald Trump gets 24% of Republican votes. Ben Carson, the former neurosurgeon is at 23%. Coming in third is Marco Rubio, Florida’s senator, at 14%. Cruz takes 13%.
Bob Jones University was founded in 1927 but did not admit black students until 1971. In the 1970s and 1980s the school used the Bible as justification for its racially discriminatory policies (the school banned interracial dating).
In 2000 the university’s third president, Bob Jones III, called Catholicism and Mormonism ‘cults which call themselves Christian.’
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James Withers
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