{"id":15903,"date":"2015-08-23T12:10:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T19:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15903"},"modified":"2015-08-23T12:10:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T19:10:14","slug":"last-weeks-horrific-republican-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/23\/last-weeks-horrific-republican-statements\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Week’s Horrific Republican Statements"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, they push the envelope on just how horrific InsaniTEA can become.  I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Ted Cruz puts crazy and scary words together that make it sound like Christians are being horribly persecuted in this country.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"0823CruzUranus\"To no one\u2019s surprise, Ted Cruz made a series of vile statements this week about how Christians are being persecuted because they can\u2019t discriminate against gays. This is his definition of \u201creligious liberty.\u201d<\/p>\n

During a cookout at an Iowa State Fair, Cruz got into a dispute with the actress Ellen Page, who pointed out to him that \u201creligious liberty\u201d has long been used to justify discrimination against vulnerable groups. Asked whether he is comfortable with the fact that in some states, gay and trans people are fired for being themselves, he replied, "We should not be persecuting people…for their religious faith."<\/p>\n

See what he did there with that cleverly timed pause. He almost made you think he cares about anti-LGBT persecution. But of course, he doesn\u2019t, silly.<\/p>\n

Another thing Cruz did this week is visit the radio host Jan Mickelson, who recently suggested enslaving undocumented immigrants. Cruz used the opportunity to rail against the gay \u201cjihad\u201d waged on Christians and the \u201catheist Taliban\u201d that supports that "jihad."<\/p>\n

Oh, for crissakes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is an assault on faith and an assault on religious liberty that we see across this country and it has never been as bad as it is right now,\u201d Cruz said, claiming that \u201cradical atheists and liberals\u201d are \u201cdriving any acknowledgment of God out of the public square.\u201d<\/p>\n

Driving God out of the public square, he said, is contrary to the Constitution, which he appears not to have read in a very long time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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You can always count on \u201cUranus Inspector\u201d Cruz (however you spell it) to put Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian hatred for LGBT people front and center.  This is only the fifth of five horrific Republican statements from last week alone.  Click through for the other four.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almost every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, they push the envelope on just how horrific InsaniTEA can become.  I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception. Ted Cruz puts crazy and scary words […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}