Dave Sebastian: How I Learned is Okay to be Gay | TED Talk

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• 'CHOPPED' STAR TED ALLEN IS HAPPILY MARRIED GAY MAN — KNOW HIS PERSONAL LIFE, B, AND NET WORTH
• HOW I LEARNED IS OKAY TO BE GAY
• TED NUGENT COM OUT OF THE CLOSET: “I AM A GAY PIRATE”
• IS COL GAY TED LASSO? IS HE BASED ON A REAL SOCCER PLAYER?
• IS JAM LANCE’S TRENT CRIMM GAY TED LASSO?
• 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
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'CHOPPED' STAR TED ALLEN IS HAPPILY MARRIED GAY MAN — KNOW HIS PERSONAL LIFE, B, AND NET WORTH

LZ GranrsonThe myth of the gay agenda17 mut 34 sendsIn a funny talk wh an urgent msage, LZ Granrson pots out the absurdy the ia that there's a "gay liftyle, " much ls a "gay agenda. Wh fect joy, Tiq and Kim qutn our misnceptns about who they might be and offer a visn of an clive, challengg love that grows day by Tillett WrightFifty shas of gay18 mut 1 sendiO Tillett Wright has photographed 2, 000 people who nsir themselv somewhere on the LGBTQ spectm -- and asked many of them: Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight you are?

Most people, turns out, nsir themselv to exist the gray areas of sexualy, not 100% gay or straight. Yoba RichenWhat the gay rights movement learned om the civil rights movement17 mut 28 sendsAs a member of both the Ain Amerin and LGBT muni, filmmaker Yoba Richen is fascated wh the overlaps and tensns between the gay rights and the civil rights movements. Jok Church tells a short, movg story of the teacher who sheltered him as a young gay teen and helped him grow -- and how, many years later, he and his partner had the privilege of returng the favor.

Markg the historic day of approvg gay marriage by the Supreme Court of the Uned Stat, Amerin televisn host and thor Ted Allen ma the proud announcement of his engagement wh Barry Rice on June 26, 2013.

HOW I LEARNED IS OKAY TO BE GAY

10, 826 views | Dave Sebastian • TEDxWhneyHighDave Sebastian tells the story of his own past and prent: g to terms wh, acceptg, and eventually embracg his inty as a gay man. He rells his transn om "self-disgt" to "nfince" and "pri", stg a msage of love as a dogma that will prevail over Sebastian tells the story of his own past and prent: g to terms wh, acceptg, and eventually embracg his inty as a gay man. Ted Cz, a homophobic Republin om Texas.

So ’s not shockg that Ted Nugent, generally known for beg an airhead bigot who also dabbl guar, has fally e out of the closet as a homosexual. And I’m a gay pirate.

TED NUGENT COM OUT OF THE CLOSET: “I AM A GAY PIRATE”

Liberals should five Nugent’s past transgrsns and wele him to our Jewish homosexual socialist circle of eedom haters immediately. In the article, the pastor adms that he was sexually molted at age 7, ed to watch gay porn and was a pulsive masturbator. LZ Granrson: The myth of the gay agenda.

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IO Tillett Wright: Fifty shas of gay. iO Tillett Wright has photographed 2, 000 people who nsir themselv somewhere on the LGBTQ spectm -- and asked many of them: Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight you are?

Gay Gordon-Byrne: You serve the right to repair your stuff. A self-clared "repair geek, " Gay Gordon-Byrne is a drivg force behd the right-to-repair movement, which aims to empower people to fix their stuff.

IS JAM LANCE’S TRENT CRIMM GAY TED LASSO?

Joel Burns: A msage to gay teens: It gets better.

In a urageo, tensely emotnal talk at the cy uncil Fort Worth, Texas, uncilman Joel Burns reach out to the targets of teen bullyg -- kids who are gay, perceived as gay, or jt different -- wh a val msage about their liv, and the harassment they face. Thomas Lloyd: Why am I "so gay? "If I had a dime for every time I was asked, 'Why am I so gay?

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

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