the most conservative presidential candidate for 2016, was recently interviewed by Hispanic TV channel Univision on a variety of subjects including the recent U.S. Supreme court opinion on counterfeit marriage. The interview turned out to be a great opportunity to inform the Hispanic community about the U.S. Constitution and conservative values.
The Univision Leftist interviewer Jorge Ramos seemed to think “love wins” (translation: “perverted lust wins”), but Senator Cruz said that (like any patriotic American) he would rather the U.S. Constitution wins.
He pointed out that the U.S. Supreme Court opinion on counterfeit marriage was “fundamentally inconsistent with the Constitution. The Constitution leaves marriage for the states, from the beginning of our country.”
Ramos thought it was odd that Cruz had worked at the Supreme Court, yet wasn’t “respecting their decision.” So Cruz gave Ramos an education on the U.S. Constitution–an education so many people in the United States desperately need, and need to come to terms with.
Under our constitution, if you want to change the marriage laws, if you want ‘gay marriage’ adopted in your state, there is a method under the constitution to do that, and what that is, is you can try to convince your fellow citizens to change the marriage laws in your legislatures. That’s the way the constitution works, and it may be that New York and California would make different policy decisions than Texas and Florida. That’s the way our constitutional system should work.
Ramos tried to cite some Leftist polls claiming that most Americans now support counterfeit marriage, but Cruz pointed out some facts that are inconsistent with those polls.
Number one, forty states have adopted laws or constitutional amendments protecting traditional marriage. Look, in the Hispanic community, our community values traditional marriage as the union of one man and one woman. That is very much the case in the Hispanic community…
And just a few years ago, California, not a conservative state, bright blue liberal California, they had a referendum state-wide on marriage, and a majority of Californians, when they had the opportunity to vote, voted in favor of traditional marriage. And you know who voted overwhelmingly in California for traditional marriage? Hispanics and African Americans.
Cruz pointed out that if the American really supported counterfeit marriage, they could have obtained government sanction for it democratically. But homosexual activists knew that wasn’t going to fly, so they took it to the courts where judicial activists could bypass democracy and the constitution and force it on the American people.
Ramos tried playing the “What if your daughters were gay” crap, and unlike a lot of gutless RINOs, Cruz laughed at the notion that conservatives do not love their families and others. He pointed out that when some homosexuals came out supporting his campaign, it was the Left that demonized and ostracized those homosexuals for supporting Cruz. Obviously, the “tolerant” Left isn’t nearly as “tolerant” as they would have gullible people believe.
Also during the interview, Ramos tried to sell Cruz on amnesty for illegal aliens or this “path to citizenship” amnesty crap, but Cruz wasn’t buying that either. When Ramos asked Cruz about the “path to citizenship” and President Obama’s illegal efforts to grant amnesty to illegal aliens, Cruz said
It is inconsistent with the law. I support the rule of law.
Cruz pointed out that people come to America for many reasons, an important one being the rule of law. The rule of law, he said, is not followed in many countries, and what Barack Obama is doing is what dictators have done in other nations, i.e. violate the rule of law.
He said what he passionately supports is legal immigration, and his record shows that. Cruz said rule of law matters. If you cross the border illegally into Mexico, they would uphold their laws and deport such a person, and why shouldn’t the United States. Ramos could not answer why the United States should not do what other nations do with respect to upholding their borders.
Ramos accused him of not working for the Hispanic community because he doesn’t excuse illegal immigration. Cruz said that by working to uphold the laws that legal immigrants honored, he is working for the Hispanic community.
America desperately needs a president who understands the traditional values that produced this, the greatest nation in history, and not only understands those values, but passionately supports them and will unwaveringly defend them.
Obviously, Ted Cruz is such a man. He not only understands and supports traditional American values that work, obviously he is able to articulate those values clearly and politely–something few Republicans and virtually no Democrats will do anymore.
Liberalism (both the “straight” version offered by Democrats and the “lite” version offered by the “Republican” establishment) are killing his nation like poison. Ted Cruz wants no part of embracing that poison, and neither do I.
*** Bob Ellis *** Is a conservative author and Life and Liberty News contributor
