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* voted against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act | * voted against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act | ||
* opposes marriage equality, for the usual bogus reasons | * opposes marriage equality, for the usual bogus reasons | ||
− | * opposes abortion rights: has continuously supported bans on taxpayer funding of abortion and bans of "partial birth abortion". | + | * opposes abortion rights: has continuously supported bans on taxpayer funding of abortion and bans of "partial birth abortion". |
+ | * claimed that the 2015 Planned Parenthood shooter was a "transgender liberal activist", thus ginning up more hatred of liberals and transgendered people purely for the sake of pandering to his base, after claiming that there was very little evidence to connect the killer with "the pro-life movement" despite the fact that said movement advocates doing exactly what the killer did.<ref name=txtrib>'''2015-11-29''' ''The Texas Tribune'' [https://www.texastribune.org/2015/11/29/cruz-condemns-planned-parenthood-shooting-colorado/ Cruz Condemns Colorado Shooting, Rejects Anti-Abortion Link]</ref> | ||
==Footnotes== | ==Footnotes== | ||
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Revision as of 18:35, 11 April 2016
- started and supported the great Republican Budget Tantrum of 2013 in which Republicans refused to pass the already-negotiated budget because they didn't get exactly what they wanted.
- ...which was primarily a repeal of Obamacare...
- ...even though they offered no solution to replace it or even a viable plan for winding it down.
- ...which was primarily a repeal of Obamacare...
- against allowing children of immigrants to become legal citizens.
- supports the bizarre idea of building a (higher and longer) wall between the US and Mexico, later made even more notorious by Donald Trump.
- believes that the US was founded as a Christian nation; hired serial liar David Barton, who also promotes this myth, to run his super PAC[1]
- voted against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act
- opposes marriage equality, for the usual bogus reasons
- opposes abortion rights: has continuously supported bans on taxpayer funding of abortion and bans of "partial birth abortion".
- claimed that the 2015 Planned Parenthood shooter was a "transgender liberal activist", thus ginning up more hatred of liberals and transgendered people purely for the sake of pandering to his base, after claiming that there was very little evidence to connect the killer with "the pro-life movement" despite the fact that said movement advocates doing exactly what the killer did.[2]
Footnotes
- ↑ 2016-04-06 John Fea on the Theology of Ted Cruz
- ↑ 2015-11-29 The Texas Tribune Cruz Condemns Colorado Shooting, Rejects Anti-Abortion Link