In March 2012, Cruz was quoted by Peggy Fikac of the San Antonio Express-News saying: "I believe that engaging in homosexual conduct is a choice, and I do not believe that unelected judges should force states to adopt gay marriage, against the wishes of the people. We will get back and restore that shining city on a hill that is the United States of America."įinally, we looked into whether the meme’s quotations reflected on past Cruz comments.Ĭruz has repeatedly said he doesn’t want gay marriages to be legal, as the Human Rights Campaign, which advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans, spells out in its "Republican Facts" web page titled: "Ted Cruz: Not a Fan of Pride Parades." "It will only come as it has come at every other time of challenge in this country, when the American people stand together and say we will get back to the principles that have made this country great. It will come only from the men and women across this country, from men and women, from people of faith, from lovers of liberty, from people who respect the Constitution. The answer will not come from Washington. "I am honored to stand with each and every one of you courageous conservatives as we come together to reclaim the promise of America, to reclaim the mandate, the hope and opportunity for our children and our children’s children. For instance, Cruz referred to "the God-given liberty of every American." He also said: "God’s blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isn’t done with America yet." On marriage, he said: "Instead of a federal government that works to undermine our values, imagine a federal government that works to defend the sanctity of human life and to uphold the sacrament of marriage."Ĭruz didn’t mention atheists, but he emphasized religious faith before students at the university founded by the late Jerry Falwell, an evangelist. In the speech, Cruz mentioned marriage once, gays and atheists not at all. Next, we scrutinized a Washington Post transcript of Cruz’s Maspeech declaring for president. To our inquiry about the presented quotation, Cruz campaign spokesman Rick Tyler said by email it’s "obviously false." In fact, online searches and a check of the Nexis news database yielded no evidence Cruz, a Houston lawyer elected to the Senate in 2012, has ever made a comment about the Constitution leaving no place for gays or atheists in his America. Still, the meme as a whole struck us as leaving the impression that Cruz said it.Īnd it doesn’t look like he did. The image did not put the statement in quotation marks. But the image and purported Cruz statement had been sent out by the group in this March 25, 2015, tweet: The afternoon we scrolled the page, we didn’t spot the Cruz meme. It is primarily satire and parody with a mix of political memes and messages." The image had a tagline mentioning a Facebook page titled " Stop the World, The Teabaggers Want Off." Off we clicked, learning that Facebook page includes this disclaimer about its posts: "This page is for entertainment purposes.
SOURCE: Facebook post, Ma(noted by a PolitiFact reader April 2, 2015) Now let’s turn to the Facebook post brought to our attention most recently: senator who announced his presidential candidacy at Liberty University in Virginia, had conveniently flip-flopped on each president needing to be born in the United States. We recently found Pants on Fire a Facebook post saying the Canada-born Cruz, the Republican U.S. Here we go again: A reader just pointed out a Facebook meme suggesting Texan Ted Cruz declared America constitutionally off limits to gays and atheists last month when he declared his candidacy for president.
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