Ted Cruz appoints couple behind anti-gay marriage billboards to Iowa leadership team

[DonViejo]

Source: The Guardian

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has chosen a couple who are aiming to put up 1,000 billboards attacking same-sex marriage to be part of his Iowa leadership team.

Betty and Richard Odgaard, who lost a civil case in January after refusing to allow a gay couple to marry at their restaurant, have already erected one anti-gay marriage billboard in Oklahoma. They were added to Cruz’s Iowa team on Tuesday.

Announcing their appointment, the Cruz campaign described the Odgaards as “courageous conservatives” who will form part of “a strong leadership team to win the Iowa caucuses”. The Odgaards erected the first billboard of their planned 1,000 on 24 July. On the Facebook page of their ministry, God’s Original Design, they described the billboard as a “14’x48’ lighted beauty”.

The billboard bears the message: “Marriage =” followed by the symbols of a man and woman. Beneath this is a line which reads: “Please … I need your help with this! – God”.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/ted-cruz-appoints-couple-behind-anti-gay-marriage-billboards-to-iowa-leadership-team/

[AllFieldsRequired]

1. Ted is their true leader. I think he actually believes the hatred he espouses as well.

He just reminds me of

[aggiesal]

2. What did you expect from a pig, but a grunt? n/t

[murielm99]

3. I don't know much about this case,

but I do have one respectful question:

If the Odgaards did not want them to marry at their restaurant, why demean themselves? If someone had done that to me or mine, I would have chosen a more friendly venue. Weddings are times for rejoicing.

[DonViejo]

6. The gay couple isn't demeaning themselves by suing the Odgaards...

they are standing up for their right to be served in a business involved in public accommodation. Effectively, the gay couple is saying, "okay, you don't want to serve us? That's fine but, you'll have to pay the price for your discriminatory practices."

[murielm99]

7. Okay. n/t

Thanks for the answer. (This is not sarcasm). It is often difficult to tell the difference these days.

[TexasTowelie]

4. Related threads in reverse chronological order:

Iowa Couple’s Anti-Gay Billboard Campaign Has Netted Only $153
Anti-Gay Wedding Venue Owners Tell Ted Cruz: ‘We Were Devastated to Hear That We Were Bigots’
A Thousand Points of Hate: Couple Plans Massive Series of Anti–Gay Marriage Billboards

[Liberalagogo]

5. “Please … I need your help with this! – God”.

Why is your god so weak and pathetic?

Why do you feel the need to speak for something that weak and pathetic?

Could it just be all projection on your part?

[RKP5637]

8. Figures! Shit sticks together! n/t

[C_U_L8R]

9. Blasphemers

Those sanctimonious weasels dare to claim they speak for God!!!??? Well God's with me right here posting on DU and he says Cruz is an idiot assclown. So there.

[olddots]

10. Ted heres a big dog poop

we could heat it up for you .