Sen. Ted Cruz got catch in a heated exchange with out actress Ellen Page at the Iowa State Fair over "religious liberty" laws which become a license to discriminate against LGBTs.
Page began by asking the senator, who was wearing an apron and grilling pork chops, his opinion on Americans losing their jobs for “just strictly being gay or trans.”
“What we’re seeing right now, we’re seeing Bible-believing Christians being persecuted for living according to their faith,” Cruz said.
“For discriminating against LGBT people,” Page responded.
“Now I’m happy to answer your question, but not to have a back-and-forth debate,” said Cruz.
Cruz brought up Dick and Betty Odgaard, an Iowa couple who stopped renting their art gallery for weddings after a long legal battle for refusing to host a same-sex wedding. “No one has the right to force someone else to abandon their faith and their conscience,” Cruz said.
The presidential hopeful also pivoted to bring up the serious anti-gay oppression is occurring in Islamic states. “ISIS is executing gay people, Iran is executing homosexuals, and on the left you hear complete silence about Iran hanging homosexuals,” he said.
I would disagree that there has been silence on the issue of LGBTs being killed by ISIS.
In the end, this stands as what may be the most substantive discussion on LGBT rights in the presidential campaign thus far.
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