“Maybe you are the greatest Christian and I am happy with that. I am not always the best Christian, but each day I try to do better”
Yeh you and me both. Yes its offensive because that is not any measure of being a good Christian.
Cruz is indulging in that self serving pandering that is really stomach churning. He didn’t have any more of an immersive Christian childhood than I did or probably you and millions of others just like us. How many times do you tell the story before its self serving? How come Cruz does not have a gazillion other people he knows out there witnessing for him? That would be a lot more effective.
How many pics are out there of Cruz at a rally caressing the face of a vet with no arms? How many videos are there out there of Cruz walking out into a large audience to personally discuss a wounded Vet’s problem and then have his staff get on it to solve the problem? How many rallies to raise money for wounded warriors has Cruz put on? Only now he wants to give money but only if Trump will debate him.
I hate to say it but I have not seen even one instance of Cruz’s Christian faith on display or heard one story about Cruz doing anything that would actually witness his Christian faith. The only evidence I have is Cruz telling me night and day.
I would put to you as a Christian myself that Donald Trump has a lot more check marks in the Christian column than Ted Cruz does.
In private practice, Cruz said, he did pro bono work to defend a veterans’ memorial on federal land in the Mojave Desert. “A lone white Latin cross, erected over 70 years ago to honor the men and women who gave their lives in World War I.” The ACLU had successfully petitioned to have the monument taken down in several federal courts.
“They said you could not gaze upon the image of a cross on federal lands,” Cruz said as members of the crowd shook their heads in disbelief. “Well, I’ll tell you this. They were right on one thing. The cross has power.” Cruz helped take the case to the Supreme Court and—you guessed it—he won. And the crowd in Washington went wild.
Speaking of Supreme Court cases, Cruz was the only candidate Wednesday to spend time on the issues surrounding the upcoming decision on gay marriage. He even touched on the religious freedom law in Indiana that touched off a national firestorm earlier this year. Critics of the law claimed it gave the state’s business owners the right to discriminate against gays and lesbians. Cruz rightly noted a nearly identical federal law aimed at protecting the free exercise of religious beliefs had been supported decades earlier by prominent Democrats as well as Republicans. But Cruz called out some unnamed Republican rivals for not vigorously defending Indiana’s law.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/among-the-faithful-conservatives-cruz-shines/article/973801
Originally, the U.S. Justice Department defended the cross memorial. However, when President Barack Obama was elected, the government’s defense of the memorial under Attorney General Eric Holder seemed to become lackluster, and the Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial Association stepped in to bolster the defense. They are represented by Allyson Ho, a partner at the powerhouse firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius (Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
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was a partner at that firm prior to his Senate election, and in fact Cruz and Ho were the co-chairs of the firm’s Supreme Court practice group), and Jeff Mateer and Hiram Sasser from Liberty Institute, one of America’s foremost religious-liberty law firms.
A crowd converged on the World War II Memorial on the National Mall on Sunday, pushing past barriers to protest the memorial’s closing under the government shutdown.
Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah, along with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, were part of the demonstrators.
“Let me ask a simple question,” Cruz told the crowd of hundreds that gathered beginning at 9 a.m. “Why is the federal government spending money to erect barricades to keep veterans out of this memorial?”
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/10/13/sen-ted-cruz-joins-protest-at-wwii-memorial-in-washington/