Death Penalty for Gays

Ted Cruz’s “Keep the Truth” Super PAC accepted 15 million dollars from Texas pastors Farris and Dan Wilks who made their billions in the Texas fracking boom. The pastors claim that homosexuality is a choice and a predatory lifestyle. They preach that gays need the children of straight people in order to perpetuate their “lifestyle.”

Therefore they equate the struggle for gay equality with a war over protecting children from becoming indoctrinated into homosexuality and thereby making the human species extinct.

Another doctrine endorsed by Ted Cruz is that of pastor Kevin Swanson who repeatedly calls for capital punishment of gay people unless they repent from their sins in the name of God. His weekly anti-gay sermons seem closely aligned with the current executions of gays in Iraq and Syria by Daesh (ISIS).

The same pastor also has called for children to be drowned rather than allowed to read Harry Potter.

Senator Ted Cruz has personally attended religious freedom events hosted by Kevin Swanson where he advocated the death penalty for all gays in America. Ted Cruz has steadfastly refused to make any apologies or reprimands concerning the publicity of Kevin Swanson’s death threats to gays.

It’s 2015 and much of the media seem to accept, still, that LGBT people can be talked about this way at an event attended by presidential candidates and that it’s not news. They view it as par for the course, religious conservatives doing what they do. It’s as if they have blinders on.

Indeed, if Ted Cruz — or Huckabee or Jindal — attended an event at which the host hinted at mass murder of Jews, African-Americans or any other group it would be a massive media story. He’d be forced to answer questions about it, at debates (and it didn’t come up at the last debate), in press conferences and in interviews non-stop. He’d be pressured to condemn both the comments and the pastor — as when John McCain had to dump Pastor John Hagee in 2008 because of his ugly comments about Catholics — or he’d face the consequences.

These guys are embracing a biblically inspired ignorance which flies in the face of all modern research and understanding of human sexuality.

Unfortunately, the GOP 2016 presidential candidates are far from alone in their bigotry and carelessness about the extent of suffering endured by a wide spectrum of minorities in the USA, including homosexuals. It tells a sad tail of the mentality of a large segment of the US population; a profound lack of compassion and an insidious inability to empathize with others.