[caption id=”attachment_146436″ align=”aligncenter” width=”4428″] Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks at the Iowa State Fair, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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If you’re gay, you should be able to deny services to Christians based on your deeply held beliefs. That’s not according to a gay rights activist, but GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz.
Cruz has received attention and criticism for his views that Christians should be able to deny services to gays based on their religious beliefs. He recently shared his thoughts at the Iowa State Fair when confronted by actress Ellen Page on the matter.
As Cruz sees it, the issue is not about discrimination so much as it is about “Bible believing Christians being persecuted… for living according to their faith.”
“No one has the right to force someone else to abandon their faith and their conscience,” Cruz added. He also used the example of how a “gay florist has every right to say [to Evangelical Christians] ‘if I disagree with your faith and don’t want to participate, you know what, there are other people you can buy flowers from.'”
As Cruz also framed it:
One may agree or disagree with Cruz’s assessments. But it ought to be objectively said that his points are genuine and consistent.
As such, it becomes more difficult to accuse Cruz of having such a position simply for being discriminatory or bigoted.
