Ted Cz Conmng Uganda's Anti-Gay Law Rais Eyebrows

Contents:

• TED CZ LLED UGANDA'S ANTI-GAY LAW 'HORRIFIC.' LAST YEAR, HE VOTED AGAST PROTECTG SAME SEX MARRIAG.
• TED CZ RPONDS TO GAY MAN ABOUT RELIG FREEDOM
• TED CZ CONMNG UGANDA'S ANTI-GAY LAW RAIS EYEBROWS
• TED CZ SAYS TEXAS SHOULD REPEAL BAN ON GAY SEX
• GAY REPUBLIN NONTS TED CZ OVER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

TED CZ LLED UGANDA'S ANTI-GAY LAW 'HORRIFIC.' LAST YEAR, HE VOTED AGAST PROTECTG SAME SEX MARRIAG.

We saw stat before Obergefell, some stat were movg to allow gay marriage, other stat were movg to allow civil partnerships.

In Obergefell, the urt said, ‘No, we know better than you guys do, and now every state mt, mt sanctn and perm gay marriage. “You’ve got a ton of people who have entered to gay marriag and would be more than a ltle chaotic for the urt to do somethg that somehow dispted those marriag that have been entered to acrdance wh the law, ” Cz said.

Ted Cz, a homophobic Republin om Texas. 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 RPONDS TO GAY MAN ABOUT RELIG FREEDOM

” 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. 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 lashed out at a harsh anti-LGBTQ measure signed to law Uganda on Monday that impos the ath penalty for what scrib as "aggravated homosexualy" and tablish lifetime prison sentenc for anyone who engag gay sex. "Any law crimalizg homosexualy or imposg the ath penalty for 'aggravated homosexualy' is grotque & an abomatn. "The measure, which has faced nmnatn throughout the world, f "aggravated homosexualy” as s of sexual relatns volvg people fected wh HIV, as well as wh mors and other tegori of vulnerable people.

TED CZ CONMNG UGANDA'S ANTI-GAY LAW RAIS EYEBROWS

The versn signed by Print Yoweri Meveni don’t crimalize those who intify as LGBTQ, a key ncern for some rights mpaigners who nmned an earlier draft of the home, Cz has spoken out agast the landmark 2015 Supreme Court cisn that legalized same-sex Cz, a former solicor general of Texas who argued s before the Supreme Court, said last year that Texas should repeal a s-old state law that crimaliz gay sex, acrdg to the Dallas Morng News. In a rerdg provid to POLITICO, Cz answers a flat “No” when asked whether fightg gay marriage is a “top-three prry, ” an answer that pleased his socially morate hosts but uld surprise some of his evangelil backers. Durg the qutn perd, one of the donors told Cz that gay marriage was one of the few issu on which the two disagreed.

Then the donor asked: “So would you say ’s like a top-three prry for you — fightg gay marriage? Some stat have ma cisns one way on gay marriage.

“His answer [on gay marriage was] the same as all the mastream ndidat, ” the operative said. And the only issue I really disagree wh you about is gay marriage.

TED CZ SAYS TEXAS SHOULD REPEAL BAN ON GAY SEX

And I’m cur: Given all the problems that the untry’s facg — like ISIS, the growth of ernment — how big a prry is fightg gay marriage gog to be to a Cz admistratn? Cz: “My view on gay marriage is that I’m a nstutnalist and marriage is a qutn for the stat.

Same qutner: “So would you say ’s like a top-three prry for you — fightg gay marriage?

GAY REPUBLIN NONTS TED CZ OVER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

So is the fact that he’s sidg wh Print Joe Bin, who nmned Uganda’s Anti-Homosexualy Act the same day. NBC News reports that, unr the law’s provisns, even intifyg as LGBTQ is enough to earn a jail sentence, as are “promotg and abettg homosexualy, as well as nspiracy to engage homosexualy. ”It also penaliz so-lled aggravated homosexualy wh ath.

That charge appli if the acced had gay sex wh someone unr 18, is HIV-posive or held undue fluence over the “victim of the offense. ” 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. Ted Cz, R-Texas, sparred wh a pastor on Twter over an anti-LGBTQ law Uganda, askg the fah lear if “you really believe" the Uned Stat' ernment "should execute every person who is gay?