One of the big questions about Ted Cruz is whether he is a true believer, or if he is just a self-aggrandizing asshole who is doing this for his own selfish reasons.<\/p>\n
Well, this news seems to strongly imply that Ted Cruz is really all about Ted Cruz<\/a>: Senator Ted Cruz<\/a> has positioned himself as a strong opponent of same-sex marriage<\/a>, urging pastors nationwide to preach in support of marriage as an institution between a man and a woman, which he said was \u201cordained by God.\u201d<\/span> (emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n Cruz doesn’t care about hating on the ghey, he’s just using it for political advantage. <\/p>\n Politicians weasel on issues all the time, but some issues, and I would include same sex marriage among these issues, there has to be a real moral component (at least on the pro-bigotry side).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the big questions about Ted Cruz is whether he is a true believer, or if he is just a self-aggrandizing asshole who is doing this for his own selfish reasons. Well, this news seems to strongly imply that Ted Cruz is really all about Ted Cruz: Senator Ted Cruz has positioned himself as …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1051,1030,978,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-hypocrisy","category-lgbtq","category-politics","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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But on Monday night, at a reception for him at the Manhattan apartment of two prominent gay hoteliers, the Texas senator and Republican presidential hopeful struck quite a different tone<\/span><\/b>.<\/span>
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During the gathering, according to two people present, Mr. Cruz said he would not love his daughters any differently if one of them was gay. He did not mention his opposition to same-sex marriage<\/a><\/span><\/b>, saying only that marriage is an issue that should be left to the states.<\/span>
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The dinner and \u201cfireside chat\u201d for about a dozen people with Mr. Cruz and his wife, Heidi, was at the Central Park South penthouse of Mati Weiderpass and Ian Reisner, longtime business partners who were once a couple and who have been pioneers in the gay hospitality industry.<\/span>
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\u201cTed Cruz<\/a> said, \u2018If one of my daughters was gay, I would love them just as much<\/span><\/b>,\u2019\u201d recalled Mr. Reisner, a same-sex marriage proponent who described himself as simply an attendee at Mr. Weiderpass\u2019s event.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n