This is why I dislike Ted Cruz. Cruz is a very smart guy, and an accomplished lawyer, especially on...
This is why I dislike Ted Cruz. Cruz is a very smart guy, and an accomplished lawyer, especially on constitutional issues. He knows perfectly well that Kim Davis, the elected Democratic County Clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, is wrong on the law, and that the absolutely proper action for the judge is to find her in contempt of court.
Instead of standing up for what he knows is correct, he is dishonestly positioning himself to win the "social conservative" vote. Cruz does nothing but pander, because he thinks that is the only way he can win.
He says, "Today, for the first time ever, the government arrested a Christian woman for living according to her faith. ... I stand with Kim Davis. Unequivocally. I stand with every American that the Obama Administration is trying to force to choose between honoring his or her faith or complying with a lawless court opinion."
He knows that's a lie: she was arrested for violating a proper Court order, not for living according to her faith. And even if her faith does demand she not hand out secular, civil, legal marriage licenses to gay couples -- and it shouldn't, because nothing in the Bible implies that her doing so would violate anything God ever said -- she has other recourse: she can resign.
She wasn't choosing between her faith, and honoring a court opinion, because she had a third option.
I agree with Cruz' analysis of the Supreme Court decision: it was simply a poor legal decision, on multiple levels. But that is irrelevant: it's the law now. Get over it.
"Those who are persecuting Kim Davis believe that Christians should not serve in public office. That is the consequence of their position. Or, if Christians do serve in public office, they must disregard their religious faith–or be sent to jail."
More nonsense. A civil, secular, marriage license has literally nothing to do with the Christian faith. As Jesus said, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
Instead of standing up for what he knows is correct, he is dishonestly positioning himself to win the "social conservative" vote. Cruz does nothing but pander, because he thinks that is the only way he can win.
He says, "Today, for the first time ever, the government arrested a Christian woman for living according to her faith. ... I stand with Kim Davis. Unequivocally. I stand with every American that the Obama Administration is trying to force to choose between honoring his or her faith or complying with a lawless court opinion."
He knows that's a lie: she was arrested for violating a proper Court order, not for living according to her faith. And even if her faith does demand she not hand out secular, civil, legal marriage licenses to gay couples -- and it shouldn't, because nothing in the Bible implies that her doing so would violate anything God ever said -- she has other recourse: she can resign.
She wasn't choosing between her faith, and honoring a court opinion, because she had a third option.
I agree with Cruz' analysis of the Supreme Court decision: it was simply a poor legal decision, on multiple levels. But that is irrelevant: it's the law now. Get over it.
"Those who are persecuting Kim Davis believe that Christians should not serve in public office. That is the consequence of their position. Or, if Christians do serve in public office, they must disregard their religious faith–or be sent to jail."
More nonsense. A civil, secular, marriage license has literally nothing to do with the Christian faith. As Jesus said, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
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