Ted Cruz is the last candidate in the race who attended a highly controversial conference in Des Moines a month ago prior to the Iowa caucuses. He is, in my opinion, the most dangerous man ever to run for President. Gays and friends of gays should be condemning his campaign based on this "religious freedom" meeting alone.
Amonth ago, in ". . . Des Moines, the prominent home-schooling advocate and pastor Kevin Swanson again called for the punishment of homosexuality by death.
"To be clear, he added that the time for eliminating America’s gay population was “not yet” at hand. We must wait for the nation to embrace the one true religion, he suggested, and gay people must be allowed to repent and convert.
"Mr. Swanson proposed this at the National Religious Liberties Conference, an event he organized. Featured speakers included three Republican contenders for the presidency: Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal and Senator Ted Cruz.
"A quick web search will turn up Mr. Swanson’s references to the demonic power of “the homosexual Borg,” the unmitigated evil of Harry Potter and the Disney character Princess Elsa’s lesbian agenda.
"Mr. Cruz apparently felt little need to make excuses. He was accompanying another of the featured speakers at the conference: his father, Rafael Cruz — a politically connected pastor who told a 2013 Family Leadership Summit that same-sex marriage was a government plot to destroy the family.
"The leaders of this movement are breathtakingly radical. Like Mr. Swanson, they feel persecuted and encircled in a hostile world. Like him, they believe that America will find peace only when all submit to the one true religion.
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"True, few share Mr. Swanson’s taste for genocidal fantasy. But they do share the ultimate goal of capturing the power of the state and remaking society in ways most Americans would find extreme: a world in which men rule in families, women’s reproductive freedom is curtailed and “Bible believers” run the government.
"All of this raises some unsettling questions about political life in the United States. When presidential candidates court support among the audience of a pastor who openly discusses the extermination of millions of their fellow citizens, why is this not major news?"
Republican/Religious Leaders Say Homosexuality Should Be Punished By Death
Unless he does better than expected, the pressure is going to be stout on Cruz to withdraw after Super Tuesday. The only chance to beat Trump is if the party can quickly decide on *one* anti-Trump. Starting March 15, GOP primaries are winner-take-all, and Trump is likely unbeatable in a multi-candidate field. I think Rubio *sucks* as a candidate, but unless Kasich catches fire (not likely), he's the only real alternative to Trump. I actually like Trump better. Rubio is a panderer and liar and who knows where the hell he actually stands on *anything.*
Crazy and disgusting as it all is, it just looks when reading the chit-chat on primary politics that the Republican machine is now starting to pull its weight and advocate for Rubio. Three of the articles that I read made Cruz seem like a nonentity in the race going forward. Maybe that's wishful thinking on the elites' part--or it least the billionaires who don't want Trump--but it's interesting to see them realize and squirm knowing that Trump might win. Politico ran an article stating that the heavyweights are pressuring Kasich to bow out--he's not going to, and it's times like these where I wish I had money to burn and I throw it Kasich's way, not 'cause I want him to win, to keep the waters bubbling and muddy.
Attached video is the crazy Kevin Swanson in Iowa at the political conference where Cruz, Huckabee, and Jindal made an appearance. The Cruz line about starting every morning on your knees gave me a chuckle.
Last, you just know that in the years to come this pastor is going to be busted in a funky motel with a bag of meth and buffed out hooker. Seems like the ones who shout the loudest are the first on their knees(or behind their ears!) sucking dick.
BTW, these religious leaders who advocate death for homosexuality should move to Uganda. I'm sure they'd really love it there. :)