Probably due to the upcoming elections that the national media hasn’t been paying much attention to a big story regarding conservative senator Ted Cruz and the city of Houston, Texas. Turns out, a few weeks ago, the city and home to the first openly lesbian mayor, Annise Parker, subpoenaed the sermons of five pastors who opposed an ordinance that was aimed at increasing the rights and protections of LGBT residents of the city. Such subpoenas were issued in response to a lawsuit brought by Christian leaders but were later withdrawn since Parker called them a distraction. Senator Cruz of course condemned the subpoenas and called for supporters to send Bibles and religious texts to Parker's office, which they proceeded to do.
Last Tuesday, November 4, Cruz celebrated the Republican takeover of the United States Senate at Greg Abbott's election night party in Texas. “For six years we’ve been trapped in the Obama stagnation and malaise,” Cruz said, calling for a united Republican force for leadership.
The same-sex marriage oppose spoke to the Daily Beast and said he planned to “work alongside President Obama to ensure meaningful compromise with the White House,” which certainly shocked reporters more than his following speech to a cheering crowd in Austin. Cruz seemed ecstatic with the Republican wins and said since “the President has been unwilling to work with Republicans on anything for the past two years,” he has hopes that the White House will “stop being a partisan attack machine all the time.”
The all-time conservative ended his speech saying this was the end of the “era of Obama lawlessness.” Cruz plans to do everything in his power to repeal Obamacare and continue, or multiply efforts to revert all progress regarding gay marriage. At the moment it seems like Cruz feels very comfortable about his presidential candidacy in 2016.
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