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• TED CZ SAYS TEXAS SHOULD REPEAL BAN ON GAY SEX
• TED CZ SOFTENS ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, SAYS ‘REASONABLE PEOPLE N DISAGREE’TEXAN SAYS ’S TOO LATE TO OVERTURN OBERGEFELL, THOUGH LG WAS WRONG AND MARRIAGE IS ONLY A HETEROSEXUAL UNN HIS VIEW. SEN. TED CZ, R-TEXAS, SPEAKS DURG THE SEND DAY OF CONSERVATIVE POLIL ACTN CONFERENCE (CPAC) AT THE HILTON ANATOLE DALLAS ON FRIDAY, AUG. 5, 2022. (SHAFKAT ANOWAR / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)BY TODD J. GILLMAN5:30 AM ON AUG 8, 2022 CDTLISTENWASHINGTON — LIKE MANY NSERVATIV, SEN. TED CZ HAS GONE OUT OF HIS WAY SCE THE SUPREME COURT STCK DOWN ROE VS. WA TO EASE FEARS THAT, WH ABORTN RIGHTS ERASED, GAY MARRIAGE IS THE NEXT TARGET.CZ STILL NOUNC THE 2015 LG THAT EXTEND MARRIAGE EQUALY TO SAME-SEX UPL AS “CLEARLY WRONG.” BUT HE’S SOFTENED HIS STANCE, NCEDG RECENTLY THAT ON THE FN OF MARRIAGE, REASONABLE MDS N DIFFER — A REMARKABLE SHIFT.ADVERTISEMENTJT SEVEN YEARS AGO, CZ PROPOSED A NSTUTNAL AMENDMENT TO FE MARRIAGE AS ONLY ONE THG: THE UNN OF A MAN AND A WOMAN.ADVERTISEMENT“I BELIEVE MARRIAGE IS THE UNN OF ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN. I ALSO REGNIZE THAT REASONABLE PEOPLE N DISAGREE ON THAT AND I BELIEVE THAT THERE IS ROOM FOR A DIVERSY OF VIEWS,” HE SAID AT THE SENATE RECENTLY WHEN PROMPTED TO EXPLA HIS PERSONAL VIEWS.POLIL POTSGET THE LATT POLICS NEWS OM NORTH TEXAS AND BEYOND.EMAIL ADDRSBY SIGNG UP YOU AGREE TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICYSUBMITCONCERN ABOUT THE FUTURE OF GAY MARRIAGE HAS GROWN SCE THE URT STCK DOWN ROE S 6-3 LG DOBBS VS. JACKSON WOMEN’S HEALTH. JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS, HIS NCURRENT OPN, ARGUED THE URT SHOULD APPLY THE SAME REASONG TO OVERTURN S 2015 LG THAT LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NATNWI.TO AVERT THAT POSSIBILY, THE HOE PASSED THE RPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT LAST MONTH. THE BILL WOULD REPEAL THE 1996 DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT, WHICH FED MARRIAGE AS A HETEROSEXUAL UNN AND LET EACH STATE CI WHETHER TO REGNIZE OUT-OF-STATE MARRIAG.ADVERTISEMENTTHERE ARE NOW MORE THAN A HALF LN SAME-SEX MARRIAG NATNWI. CZ IS SYMPATHETIC TO THE IA THAT ’S NO LONGER TENABLE FOR THE HIGH URT TO REVERSE URSE. BUT HE OPPOS THE BILL TO DIFY SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, WHICH THE SENATE IS EXPECTED TO VOTE ON LATER THIS MONTH.THE HOE VOTE WAS 267-157, WH SUPPORT OM EVERY DEMOCRAT AND 47 REPUBLINS, CLUDG ONE TEXAN: REP. TONY GONZAL OF SAN ANTON.“THIS IS A PURE POLIL MSAGG BILL. THE SUPREME COURT SAID REPEATEDLY AND UNEQUIVOLLY THAT WAS NOT GOG TO REVIS OBERGEFELL,” CZ TOLD REPORTERS. “THIS IS THE DEMOCRATS PLAYG POLICS AND, ANKLY, TRYG TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT OM BIN’S FAILED RERD OF FLATN, CRIME AND CHAOS OF THE SOUTHERN BORR.”ADVERTISEMENTTHAT’S WHEN HE WAS ASKED HIS PERSONAL VIEWS AND AVERRED, PERHAPS FOR THE FIRST TIME PUBLIC, THAT “REASONABLE PEOPLE N DISAGREE” ON WHETHER MARRIAGE SHOULD BE RERVED ONLY FOR HETEROSEXUALS.ADVERTISEMENTIT’S AN ASTONISHGLY FAR CRY OM HIS RHETORIC DURG THE 2016 PRINTIAL MPAIGN, LNCHED MARCH 2015 AT THE WORLD’S LARGT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL, LIBERTY UNIVERSY, FOUND BY EVANGELIST JERRY FALWELL, WH A VOW TO “UPHOLD THE SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE.”A MONTH LATER, CZ TRODUCED A NSTUTNAL AMENDMENT TO STRIP OM THE STAT THORY TO FE MARRIAGE AS ANYTHG OTHER THAN A HETEROSEXUAL UNN. THE ROLUTN DREW NO -SPONSORS AND DIED WHOUT A HEARG OR VOTE.BUT LAID A MARKER AND HELPED CZ POSN HIMSELF AS THE SOCIAL NSERVATIV’ CHOICE THE PRIMARI.ADVERTISEMENTCZ NOW SAYS THE FN OF MARRIAGE SHOULD BE LEFT TO THE STAT.“THERE WAS A FULL-FLEDGED MOCRATIC BATE UNTIL THE SUPREME COURT SAID NO, SORRY, SILLY PEOPLE, THERE’S ONLY ONE RIGHT ANSWER,” HE SAID RECENTLY ON HIS PODST.ANTHONY MICHAEL KREIS, A NSTUTNAL LAW PROFSOR AT GEIA STATE UNIVERSY WHO STUDI LGBT RIGHTS, SE NO CHANGE OF HEART CZ, GIVEN HIS OPPOSN TO THE RPECT FOR MARRIAGE BILL.“IF SOMEONE TLY WANTED TO EVOLVE ON THE ISSUE, THERE’S A VOTE THAT THEY ULD DO THAT ON,” HE SAID. “IF PH TO SHOVE AND THERE’S AN OPPORTUNY TO OVERTURN OBERGEFELL, WILL TED CZ LE UP TO DO ? ABSOLUTELY.”SEN. TED CZ, R-TEXAS, HIS WIFE HEIDI, AND THEIR DGHTERS CATHERE, 4, LEFT, AND CAROLE, 6, RIGHT, WAVE ON STAGE AFTER HE ANNOUNCED HIS MPAIGN FOR PRINT AT LIBERTY UNIVERSY, LYNCHBURG, VA., ON MARCH 23, 2015. CZ WAS THE FIRST MAJOR NDIDATE TO OFFICIALLY ENTER THE 2016 RACE FOR PRINT.‘DARKT 24 HOURS’CZ WAS IOWA, STUMPG FOR THE WHE HOE, WHEN THE SUPREME COURT HAND DOWN OBERGEFELL VS. HODG JUNE 2015.ADVERTISEMENTTEXAS WAS ONE OF 14 STAT WHERE OBERGEFELL MA BANS ON SAME SEX-MARRIAGE UNENFORCEABLE.CZ ACCED THE HIGH URT OF IMPOSG “MANDATORY GAY MARRIAGE.” HE LLED THE 5-4 LG “THE VERY FN OF LAWLSNS” AND PROPOSED ENDG LIFE TENURE FOR JTIC, CREATG RETENTN ELECTNS EVERY EIGHT YEARS SO VOTERS ULD REMOVE THEM.“TODAY IS SOME OF THE DARKT 24 HOURS OUR NATN’S HISTORY,” HE TOLD FOX NEWS HOST SEAN HANNY.SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WAS ALREADY LEGAL 37 STAT AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA THROUGH URT LGS, LEGISLATN OR REFERENDUMS.ADVERTISEMENTFOR CZ’S PRINTIAL HOP, THE TIMG ULD NOT HAVE BEEN MUCH BETTER. HIS CHANC HGED ON SUPPORT OM EVANGELIL CHRISTIANS, AND HE TURNED THE JUDICIAL SETBACK TO LEMONA.ACCATNS THAT DEMOCRATS AND UNELECTED, UNACUNTABLE JUDG WERE TRYG TO “TEAR DOWN MARRIAGE” BEME A STAPLE HIS STUMP SPEECH.GOD'S ORIGAL DIGN MISTRY POSTED BILLBOARDS SUMMER 2015 TO PROTT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. THE MISTRY WAS STARTED BY DICK AND BETTY ODGAARD, IOWANS WHOM SEN. TED CZ NAMED "RELIG LIBERTY AMBASSADORS" FOR HIS PRINTIAL MPAIGN.SEN. TED CZ (RIGHT) PRAYS WH DICK AND BETTY ODGAARD AT A "RALLY FOR RELIG LIBERTY" D MO, IOWA, ON AUG. 21, 2015, DURG HIS BID FOR PRINT.ADVERTISEMENTFIVE WEEKS AFTER OBERGEFELL, CZ NAMED BETTY AND RICHARD ODGAARD AS HIS “RELIG LIBERTY AMBASSADORS” AND PART OF HIS IOWA LEARSHIP TEAM.THE ODGAARDS HAD REFED TO LET A GAY UPLE MARRY AT THEIR BISTRO NEAR D MO. ORRED TO PAY THE UPLE $5,000 AND TO STOP DISCRIMATG, THE ODGAARDS CLOSED THEIR BS AND BEGAN ERECTG BILLBOARDS CLARG THAT MARRIAGE JT THE ONE TRADNAL FLAVOR.THE SIGNS READ “MARRIAGE=1+1″ WH A MALE AND FEMALE FIGURE NEXT TO EACH NUMBER AND THE TAGLE, “PLEASE...I NEED YOUR HELP WH THIS! –GOD.”CZ’S VEHEMENCE OFFERED A STARK ALTERNATIVE TO THE ONT-NNER, AND HE BEGAN POKG AT DONALD TMP’S “NEW YORK VALU.”ADVERTISEMENT“THERE ARE MANY, MANY WONRFUL, WONRFUL WORKG MEN AND WOMEN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, BUT EVERYONE UNRSTANDS THAT THE VALU NEW YORK CY ARE SOCIALLY LIBERAL OR PRO-ABORTN OR PRO-GAY MARRIAGE, [AND] FOC AROUND MONEY AND THE MEDIA,” THE TEXAN SAID AT A BATE SOUTH CAROLA.AS THE IOWA UC APPROACHED, CZ SRED THE ENDORSEMENT OF THE NATNAL ORGANIZATN FOR MARRIAGE, WHICH LED EFFORTS ACROSS THE UNTRY FOR YEARS TO BLOCK STATE LAWS REGNIZG MARRIAGE RIGHTS FOR SAME-SEX UPL.ITS PRINT, BRIAN BROWN, SAID THE GROUP WANTED TO ENDORSE SOMEONE WHO’D MA FENSE OF TRADNAL MARRIAGE A “PILLAR” OF HIS POLIL REER. HE LLED CZ “SOMEONE WE N ABSOLUTELY UNT ON TO FIGHT TO RTORE MARRIAGE TO OUR NATN’S LAWS AND FEND THE RELIG LIBERTY OF THE TENS OF LNS OF AMERINS WHO BELIEVE THAT MARRIAGE IS THE UNN OF ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN.”TWO DAYS BEFORE THE UC, AT A MUDDY FAIRGROUNDS IOWA CY, DUCK DYNASTY PATRIARCH PHIL ROBERTSON WAS STUMPG AT CZ’S SI.ADVERTISEMENT“DUCK MANR” ROBERTSON LLED THE OBERGEFELL LG SFUL. HE WARNED OF AN EROSN OF MORALY AMERI. HE LLED SAME-SEX-MARRIAGE “PRAVY” AND “PERVERSN.”CZ DID NOT NTRADICT HIM.IN LIGHT OF ALL THAT, DALE CARPENTER, A NSTUTNAL LAW PROFSOR AT SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSY WHO STUDI LGBT RIGHTS, LLED CZ’S CURRENT STANCE SURPRISG.“FOR THE FIRST TIME, I DID HEAR HIM ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE NOW MARRIED SAME-SEX MARRIAG” AND THAT ’S TOO LATE TO UNDO THOSE UNNS, HE SAID. “SCE OBERGEFELL ME DOWN, THE SKY HAS NOT FALLEN. ... HE MAY BE SPEAKG TO PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND THE ON WHO N ACKNOWLEDGE THAT AT LEAST THERE’S SOME PLSIBLE ARGUMENT THERE. AND THAT’S GOT TO BE THE VAST MAJORY OF AMERINS, CLUDG REPUBLINS.”ADVERTISEMENTJIM OBERGEFELL SPEAKS DURG A PRS NFERENCE MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2015, DOWNTOWN DALLAS. OBERGEFELL, AN OH NATIVE, WAS A PLATIFF THE SUPREME COURT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SE.(G.J. MCCARTHY / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)RISG PUBLIC SUPPORT
• POPE FRANCIS' LGBTQ MENTS ARE NOT SURPRISG BUT SCERE, GAY VATIN ADVISER SAYS

TED CZ SAYS TEXAS SHOULD REPEAL BAN ON GAY SEX

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TED CZ SOFTENS ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, SAYS ‘REASONABLE PEOPLE N DISAGREE’TEXAN SAYS ’S TOO LATE TO OVERTURN OBERGEFELL, THOUGH LG WAS WRONG AND MARRIAGE IS ONLY A HETEROSEXUAL UNN HIS VIEW. SEN. TED CZ, R-TEXAS, SPEAKS DURG THE SEND DAY OF CONSERVATIVE POLIL ACTN CONFERENCE (CPAC) AT THE HILTON ANATOLE DALLAS ON FRIDAY, AUG. 5, 2022. (SHAFKAT ANOWAR / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)BY TODD J. GILLMAN5:30 AM ON AUG 8, 2022 CDTLISTENWASHINGTON — LIKE MANY NSERVATIV, SEN. TED CZ HAS GONE OUT OF HIS WAY SCE THE SUPREME COURT STCK DOWN ROE VS. WA TO EASE FEARS THAT, WH ABORTN RIGHTS ERASED, GAY MARRIAGE IS THE NEXT TARGET.CZ STILL NOUNC THE 2015 LG THAT EXTEND MARRIAGE EQUALY TO SAME-SEX UPL AS “CLEARLY WRONG.” BUT HE’S SOFTENED HIS STANCE, NCEDG RECENTLY THAT ON THE FN OF MARRIAGE, REASONABLE MDS N DIFFER — A REMARKABLE SHIFT.ADVERTISEMENTJT SEVEN YEARS AGO, CZ PROPOSED A NSTUTNAL AMENDMENT TO FE MARRIAGE AS ONLY ONE THG: THE UNN OF A MAN AND A WOMAN.ADVERTISEMENT“I BELIEVE MARRIAGE IS THE UNN OF ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN. I ALSO REGNIZE THAT REASONABLE PEOPLE N DISAGREE ON THAT AND I BELIEVE THAT THERE IS ROOM FOR A DIVERSY OF VIEWS,” HE SAID AT THE SENATE RECENTLY WHEN PROMPTED TO EXPLA HIS PERSONAL VIEWS.POLIL POTSGET THE LATT POLICS NEWS OM NORTH TEXAS AND BEYOND.EMAIL ADDRSBY SIGNG UP YOU AGREE TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICYSUBMITCONCERN ABOUT THE FUTURE OF GAY MARRIAGE HAS GROWN SCE THE URT STCK DOWN ROE S 6-3 LG DOBBS VS. JACKSON WOMEN’S HEALTH. JTICE CLARENCE THOMAS, HIS NCURRENT OPN, ARGUED THE URT SHOULD APPLY THE SAME REASONG TO OVERTURN S 2015 LG THAT LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NATNWI.TO AVERT THAT POSSIBILY, THE HOE PASSED THE RPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT LAST MONTH. THE BILL WOULD REPEAL THE 1996 DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT, WHICH FED MARRIAGE AS A HETEROSEXUAL UNN AND LET EACH STATE CI WHETHER TO REGNIZE OUT-OF-STATE MARRIAG.ADVERTISEMENTTHERE ARE NOW MORE THAN A HALF LN SAME-SEX MARRIAG NATNWI. CZ IS SYMPATHETIC TO THE IA THAT ’S NO LONGER TENABLE FOR THE HIGH URT TO REVERSE URSE. BUT HE OPPOS THE BILL TO DIFY SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, WHICH THE SENATE IS EXPECTED TO VOTE ON LATER THIS MONTH.THE HOE VOTE WAS 267-157, WH SUPPORT OM EVERY DEMOCRAT AND 47 REPUBLINS, CLUDG ONE TEXAN: REP. TONY GONZAL OF SAN ANTON.“THIS IS A PURE POLIL MSAGG BILL. THE SUPREME COURT SAID REPEATEDLY AND UNEQUIVOLLY THAT WAS NOT GOG TO REVIS OBERGEFELL,” CZ TOLD REPORTERS. “THIS IS THE DEMOCRATS PLAYG POLICS AND, ANKLY, TRYG TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT OM BIN’S FAILED RERD OF FLATN, CRIME AND CHAOS OF THE SOUTHERN BORR.”ADVERTISEMENTTHAT’S WHEN HE WAS ASKED HIS PERSONAL VIEWS AND AVERRED, PERHAPS FOR THE FIRST TIME PUBLIC, THAT “REASONABLE PEOPLE N DISAGREE” ON WHETHER MARRIAGE SHOULD BE RERVED ONLY FOR HETEROSEXUALS.ADVERTISEMENTIT’S AN ASTONISHGLY FAR CRY OM HIS RHETORIC DURG THE 2016 PRINTIAL MPAIGN, LNCHED MARCH 2015 AT THE WORLD’S LARGT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL, LIBERTY UNIVERSY, FOUND BY EVANGELIST JERRY FALWELL, WH A VOW TO “UPHOLD THE SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE.”A MONTH LATER, CZ TRODUCED A NSTUTNAL AMENDMENT TO STRIP OM THE STAT THORY TO FE MARRIAGE AS ANYTHG OTHER THAN A HETEROSEXUAL UNN. THE ROLUTN DREW NO -SPONSORS AND DIED WHOUT A HEARG OR VOTE.BUT LAID A MARKER AND HELPED CZ POSN HIMSELF AS THE SOCIAL NSERVATIV’ CHOICE THE PRIMARI.ADVERTISEMENTCZ NOW SAYS THE FN OF MARRIAGE SHOULD BE LEFT TO THE STAT.“THERE WAS A FULL-FLEDGED MOCRATIC BATE UNTIL THE SUPREME COURT SAID NO, SORRY, SILLY PEOPLE, THERE’S ONLY ONE RIGHT ANSWER,” HE SAID RECENTLY ON HIS PODST.ANTHONY MICHAEL KREIS, A NSTUTNAL LAW PROFSOR AT GEIA STATE UNIVERSY WHO STUDI LGBT RIGHTS, SE NO CHANGE OF HEART CZ, GIVEN HIS OPPOSN TO THE RPECT FOR MARRIAGE BILL.“IF SOMEONE TLY WANTED TO EVOLVE ON THE ISSUE, THERE’S A VOTE THAT THEY ULD DO THAT ON,” HE SAID. “IF PH TO SHOVE AND THERE’S AN OPPORTUNY TO OVERTURN OBERGEFELL, WILL TED CZ LE UP TO DO ? ABSOLUTELY.”SEN. TED CZ, R-TEXAS, HIS WIFE HEIDI, AND THEIR DGHTERS CATHERE, 4, LEFT, AND CAROLE, 6, RIGHT, WAVE ON STAGE AFTER HE ANNOUNCED HIS MPAIGN FOR PRINT AT LIBERTY UNIVERSY, LYNCHBURG, VA., ON MARCH 23, 2015. CZ WAS THE FIRST MAJOR NDIDATE TO OFFICIALLY ENTER THE 2016 RACE FOR PRINT.‘DARKT 24 HOURS’CZ WAS IOWA, STUMPG FOR THE WHE HOE, WHEN THE SUPREME COURT HAND DOWN OBERGEFELL VS. HODG JUNE 2015.ADVERTISEMENTTEXAS WAS ONE OF 14 STAT WHERE OBERGEFELL MA BANS ON SAME SEX-MARRIAGE UNENFORCEABLE.CZ ACCED THE HIGH URT OF IMPOSG “MANDATORY GAY MARRIAGE.” HE LLED THE 5-4 LG “THE VERY FN OF LAWLSNS” AND PROPOSED ENDG LIFE TENURE FOR JTIC, CREATG RETENTN ELECTNS EVERY EIGHT YEARS SO VOTERS ULD REMOVE THEM.“TODAY IS SOME OF THE DARKT 24 HOURS OUR NATN’S HISTORY,” HE TOLD FOX NEWS HOST SEAN HANNY.SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WAS ALREADY LEGAL 37 STAT AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA THROUGH URT LGS, LEGISLATN OR REFERENDUMS.ADVERTISEMENTFOR CZ’S PRINTIAL HOP, THE TIMG ULD NOT HAVE BEEN MUCH BETTER. HIS CHANC HGED ON SUPPORT OM EVANGELIL CHRISTIANS, AND HE TURNED THE JUDICIAL SETBACK TO LEMONA.ACCATNS THAT DEMOCRATS AND UNELECTED, UNACUNTABLE JUDG WERE TRYG TO “TEAR DOWN MARRIAGE” BEME A STAPLE HIS STUMP SPEECH.GOD'S ORIGAL DIGN MISTRY POSTED BILLBOARDS SUMMER 2015 TO PROTT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. THE MISTRY WAS STARTED BY DICK AND BETTY ODGAARD, IOWANS WHOM SEN. TED CZ NAMED "RELIG LIBERTY AMBASSADORS" FOR HIS PRINTIAL MPAIGN.SEN. TED CZ (RIGHT) PRAYS WH DICK AND BETTY ODGAARD AT A "RALLY FOR RELIG LIBERTY" D MO, IOWA, ON AUG. 21, 2015, DURG HIS BID FOR PRINT.ADVERTISEMENTFIVE WEEKS AFTER OBERGEFELL, CZ NAMED BETTY AND RICHARD ODGAARD AS HIS “RELIG LIBERTY AMBASSADORS” AND PART OF HIS IOWA LEARSHIP TEAM.THE ODGAARDS HAD REFED TO LET A GAY UPLE MARRY AT THEIR BISTRO NEAR D MO. ORRED TO PAY THE UPLE $5,000 AND TO STOP DISCRIMATG, THE ODGAARDS CLOSED THEIR BS AND BEGAN ERECTG BILLBOARDS CLARG THAT MARRIAGE JT THE ONE TRADNAL FLAVOR.THE SIGNS READ “MARRIAGE=1+1″ WH A MALE AND FEMALE FIGURE NEXT TO EACH NUMBER AND THE TAGLE, “PLEASE...I NEED YOUR HELP WH THIS! –GOD.”CZ’S VEHEMENCE OFFERED A STARK ALTERNATIVE TO THE ONT-NNER, AND HE BEGAN POKG AT DONALD TMP’S “NEW YORK VALU.”ADVERTISEMENT“THERE ARE MANY, MANY WONRFUL, WONRFUL WORKG MEN AND WOMEN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, BUT EVERYONE UNRSTANDS THAT THE VALU NEW YORK CY ARE SOCIALLY LIBERAL OR PRO-ABORTN OR PRO-GAY MARRIAGE, [AND] FOC AROUND MONEY AND THE MEDIA,” THE TEXAN SAID AT A BATE SOUTH CAROLA.AS THE IOWA UC APPROACHED, CZ SRED THE ENDORSEMENT OF THE NATNAL ORGANIZATN FOR MARRIAGE, WHICH LED EFFORTS ACROSS THE UNTRY FOR YEARS TO BLOCK STATE LAWS REGNIZG MARRIAGE RIGHTS FOR SAME-SEX UPL.ITS PRINT, BRIAN BROWN, SAID THE GROUP WANTED TO ENDORSE SOMEONE WHO’D MA FENSE OF TRADNAL MARRIAGE A “PILLAR” OF HIS POLIL REER. HE LLED CZ “SOMEONE WE N ABSOLUTELY UNT ON TO FIGHT TO RTORE MARRIAGE TO OUR NATN’S LAWS AND FEND THE RELIG LIBERTY OF THE TENS OF LNS OF AMERINS WHO BELIEVE THAT MARRIAGE IS THE UNN OF ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN.”TWO DAYS BEFORE THE UC, AT A MUDDY FAIRGROUNDS IOWA CY, DUCK DYNASTY PATRIARCH PHIL ROBERTSON WAS STUMPG AT CZ’S SI.ADVERTISEMENT“DUCK MANR” ROBERTSON LLED THE OBERGEFELL LG SFUL. HE WARNED OF AN EROSN OF MORALY AMERI. HE LLED SAME-SEX-MARRIAGE “PRAVY” AND “PERVERSN.”CZ DID NOT NTRADICT HIM.IN LIGHT OF ALL THAT, DALE CARPENTER, A NSTUTNAL LAW PROFSOR AT SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSY WHO STUDI LGBT RIGHTS, LLED CZ’S CURRENT STANCE SURPRISG.“FOR THE FIRST TIME, I DID HEAR HIM ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE NOW MARRIED SAME-SEX MARRIAG” AND THAT ’S TOO LATE TO UNDO THOSE UNNS, HE SAID. “SCE OBERGEFELL ME DOWN, THE SKY HAS NOT FALLEN. ... HE MAY BE SPEAKG TO PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND THE ON WHO N ACKNOWLEDGE THAT AT LEAST THERE’S SOME PLSIBLE ARGUMENT THERE. AND THAT’S GOT TO BE THE VAST MAJORY OF AMERINS, CLUDG REPUBLINS.”ADVERTISEMENTJIM OBERGEFELL SPEAKS DURG A PRS NFERENCE MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2015, DOWNTOWN DALLAS. OBERGEFELL, AN OH NATIVE, WAS A PLATIFF THE SUPREME COURT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SE.(G.J. MCCARTHY / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)RISG PUBLIC SUPPORT

” It also, though, appli if the acced “is a serial offenr, ” which sounds as though uld be ed as the equivalent of a “three strik” policy for gay Ugandans who are arrted multiple, sayg gay people shouldn’t be jailed bee of whom they love is one of the lowt bars for human cency. It would have been a prime opportuny for a young upstart like Cz to ga the support of social nservativ — but stead he hung to the gay people shouldn’t be jailed bee of who they love is one of the lowt bars for human when Jtice Clarence Thomas raised the specter last year of repealg Lawrence and other s based on the right to privacy, Cz said Texas stead should strip the law the se overturned off the books. One tweet sayg LGBTQ people maybe shouldn’t die for beg gay don’t sudnly make him a gay rights activist.

It didn’t — and anti-trans rhetoric bee the enge for rollg back gay rights more n expect to walk this tightrope whout beg lled out for dog so ltle at home. WASHINGTON — Today, the Human Rights Campaign, the natn’s largt lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) civil rights anizatn, rpond to the news that the Texas Senator and Republin printial hopeful Ted Cz troduced two radilly extreme anti-LGBT bills to try to stop natnwi marriage equaly. ” Ted Cz’s latt radil stunt follows his participatn at a head-scratchg gay receptn  his honor Manhattan.

”Cz’s ntempt for LGBT equaly certaly n’t be glossed over by attendg a bizarre gay Manhattan receptn.

POPE FRANCIS' LGBTQ MENTS ARE NOT SURPRISG BUT SCERE, GAY VATIN ADVISER SAYS

Cz was among the first tier of ndidat to be released by Human Rights Campaign is Ameri’s largt civil rights anizatn workg to achieve lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr equaly. Ted Cz says Texas should repeal a s-old state law that crimaliz gay sex. “Consentg adults should be able to do what they wish their private sexual activy, and ernment has no bs their bedrooms, ” Cz’s spokman told The Dallas Morng remarks make Cz the most proment Texas Republin to ll for the repeal of one of the state’s longstandg anti-LGBT lawmakers Texas banned “homosexual nduct” nearly 50 years ago.

Related:'Homosexual nduct' was illegal 15 years ago. But Cz’s stance shows that, even among some on the far right, crimalizg nsensual gay sex go too activists say his support is ltle more than lip service when nsirg the mounta of attacks lbian, gay, bisexual and, pecially, transgenr Texans are currently weatherg.

In 2009, for example, two men who kissed an El Paso rtrant were asked to leave and told they were vlatg the state’s ban on homosexual Democrats have tried to repeal the law every ssn sce the Supreme Court’s lg.