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Ted Cruz says Supreme Court “clearly wrong” for legalizing same-sex marriage [Video]
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
- Senator Ted Cruz said Saturday that he believes the Supreme Court was “clearly wrong” when it decided that same-sex marriage was legal under the Constitution.
- Obergefell v. Hodges, a landmark LGBTQ rights case, was decided in a historic 2015 ruling.
- Cruz suggested that the legality of same-sex marriage, like abortion, should be left to the states.
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz believes the Supreme court should reconsider another landmark ruling: Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage.
On Sunday’s episode of his podcast, Verdict With Ted Cruz, the Texas senator said the 2015 case that legalized gay marriage in the U.S. “was clearly wrong when it was decided.”
“It was the court overreaching,” he added.
Cruz also compared the Obergefell case to Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion until being overturned by the court in June.
The issue, Cruz suggested, is that the legality of same-sex marriage should be left to the states.
“Obergefell, like Roe v. Wade, ignored two centuries of our nation’s history,” Cruz said. “Marriage was always an issue that was left to the states. We saw states before Obergefell, some states were moving to allow gay marriage, other states were moving to allow civil partnerships. There were different standards that the states were adopting.”
Following the Roe decision, lawmakers have hypothesized about the possibility of the court overturning other landmark rulings, like Obergefell.
Back in May, President Joe Biden warned that a Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade could have ramifications beyond the right to abortion.
During a Democratic fundraiser, Biden said: “Mark my words: They are going to go after the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage.”
Already, some Supreme Court Justices have signaled a willingness to overturn other historic cases.
In his concurring opinion on the overturning of Roe, Conservative Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the Supreme Court should reconsider Griswold v. Connecticut, Lawrence v. Texas and Obergefell v. Hodges. Currently, these rulings protect the right to buy and use contraceptives without government restriction, the right to same-sex relations, and the right to same-sex marriage.
From Thomas’ concurring opinion: “… in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. Because any substantive due process decision is ‘demonstrably erroneous,’ … we have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those precedents.”
Source: Newsweek
DonCarmine
July 19, 2022 at 6:51 pm
It was never an issue until homos push it by playing husband and husband. Then they lie and say it’s not in the Bible it is men shall not lay with men as women so again they say Jesus never said it; yes he did men shall leave his mother and father in joint with his wife. Romans one also brings it up they will die in their sins.
OLGYRENE
July 19, 2022 at 6:54 pm
Senator Cruz is absolutely correct!!!
Charles Watts
July 19, 2022 at 7:40 pm
The Supreme Court did not legalize same sex marriage because they can’t write or enact laws. Anthony Kennedy only used his condescending opinion on the legalization of same sex marriage. Since same sex marriage was never written into law therefore it is still illegal..
Charlie R
July 19, 2022 at 8:07 pm
This country must get back to reality and get away from the sinful feels that the Democrats have forced on this country. These things not man not women at from the world of satin. They come in many forms as satin has many forms to fool the week and those who do not have a faith to guide them.
Jane Jenkins
July 19, 2022 at 8:17 pm
I vote with Ted Cruz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
William Mcgregor
July 19, 2022 at 8:34 pm
How does gay marriage adversity affect straight people or straight marriages or this another. Political action to stir up the people
Dano
July 19, 2022 at 9:12 pm
What happened to separation of church and state. Religious beliefs should have no bearing at all on rights and laws. And I’m not a Democrat… just a proud American who believes in the Constitution.
Juergen Klaus
July 20, 2022 at 9:06 am
Dano,
The timbre of the idea of the separation of Church and State is that the STATE may not create or establish a religion. Christian doctrine has been the foundation for much of the history of our great country. It is enshrined throughout the Constitution and in parts of the Declaration of Independence. It is in our Pledge of Allegiance. It is found all over our coin of the realm so to speak. And in our non coin of the realm as well. Judeo-Christian theology is an underpinning of our rights as Americans.
Your assertion that religious beliefs should have no bearing at all on rights and laws is actually an oxymoronic statement since all of our rights are endowed by our Creator (THAT is in the Constitution in which you profess to believe) not the STATE. Very specific. So I am afraid you have a self defeating argument there my friend and fellow Citizen.
It is MY opinion that every law those knuckleheads in Washington or in any state come up with MUST be accompanied by the statement, right, or declaration from the Federal or State Constitution which SUPPORTS that law. Otherwise, it’s just a thought in someone’s head.
Brad
July 22, 2022 at 12:16 am
Greetings,
A brief study of our country’s founding shows that Judeo/Christian convictions played a major role in the formation of the country, the Declaration of Independence (DOI) and the Constitution of the USA (COTUSA) a well as the constitution of 49 of the 50 states.
For example; look at the famous painting of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. We recognize Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin and one or two others, but look at the others. There are 45 persons there. 29 of them were minister/pastors. When they opened the first constitutional convention, the opening prayer was two hours. Next they conducted a two hour Bible study before turning to their constitutional deliberations. There is ample evidence supporting this, if people will make the effort to examine it. Just do the research. Wall Builders.com (a Biblical reference to Nehemiah) is a good resource with thousands of written documents from the colonial period through the antebellum period after the US Civil War.
No one with a reasonable, open mind can consider this evidence and conclude that their religious convictions and values didn’t effect their deliberations and the contents of the DOI and COTUSA. Good hunting to you!
PATTY
July 20, 2022 at 9:14 pm
OUR LAWS (ALL OF WHAT WE HAVE !) ARE NOT ENFORCED…….NO ONE GETS CHARGED AND SENT TO PRISON/JAIL??????? THE DEMS/HAVE RELEASED THE CRIMINALS AND THE TERRORIST….INTO SOCIETY AGAIN SO THEY CAN CONTINUE THEIR VIOLENCE AGAINST INNOCENT PEOPLE?????? ONE PROBLEM WITH THAT IS NONE OF THEIR FAMILIES EVER GET HURT OR KILLED…..SO THEY HAVE “NO” IDEA WHAT PEOPLE GO THRU WHEN VIOLENCE HITS THEIR FAMILIES???????? THEY HAVE “BODY GUARDS”!!!!!!! THE REGULAR GUY DOES NOT HAVE THAT OPTION OR THE MONEY!!!!!!! THE POLITICIANS MAKE MONEY OFF THE TAXPAYERS……SOOOOOO NO PROBLEM!!!!!! SOOO WHAT DIFFERENCE IS THERE IF THEY HAVE SAME SEX MARRIAGE??????? AS LONG AS THEY DO NOT DISPLAY THEIR ACTIONS IN PUBLIC…..I AM OK WITH WHATEVER MAKES PEOPLE HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!