Ted Cruz Endorses Far-Right Pastor’s Plan To ‘Rescue’ Black People From Sexual Immorality

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Source: thinkprogress.org




Ted Cruz Endorses Far-Right Pastor’s Plan To ‘Rescue’ Black People From Sexual Immorality

by Kira Lerner Dec 10, 2015 8:00 am


WASHINGTON, DC — Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz believes that a majority of violent criminals are Democrats, and that there’s a “war on cops” leading to increased crime rates across the country. Black Lives Matter activists are demanding that presidential candidates address racial inequality and discrimination. On Wednesday, a Cruz-endorsed minister famous in extreme right-wing circles offered a glimpse into how President Cruz might tackle those issues by steering people toward churches and private sector groups to restore cultural and sexual morality to inner cities.

Buddy Pilgrim, Cruz’s national director for faith and religious liberty, endorsed Christian minister and former Tea Party politician E.W. Jackson Sr. on Wednesday, promising Cruz’s support for Jackson’s plan to “rescue America’s inner cities” from the “new epidemic of black on black violence and murder.”

“This is exactly the kind of initiative that is needed for this country to help resolve the problems in the inner city and throughout our country,” Pilgrim said. “I know that if Senator Cruz were to become president of this country… he’d work with Bishop Jackson and other ministers like you to help create an environment where these kind of faith and business sector solutions can be implemented.”
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Jackson said he reached out to all of the Republican candidates to support his proposals, but only Cruz has expressed interest in his “recovery plan.”

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Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/12/10/3730160/ew-jackson-ted-cruz-inner-city-plan/

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Cruz is raising the polls--he is as bigoted as Trump.



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[dembotoz]

1. i used to giggle at stupid stuff like this now i worry

the freak shows have taken over the circus

[roguevalley]

10. you know, someone needs to do Ted's genealogy. There are very few if any

Cubans left that don't have black ancestry. I am guessing that he's got a few surprise ancestors in his family tree.

[Chasstev365]

2. The more this keeps up.....

The bigger the Democratic landslide in November will be, even with potential vote fraud and the Koch Brothers money. The current GOP is making crazy John Birch Society and religious Fundamentalism beliefs their mainstay, even when 70 % of America rejects such extreme ideas. Brilliant Strategy!

[MurrayDelph]

6. DON'T GET COMPLACENT!

35 years ago, the Democratic Party assumed the country wasn't stupid-enough to elect Ronald Reagan.

We know how THAT turned out.

[hedda_foil]

8. The German intelligentsia didn't think Hitler would become chancellor of the Weimar Republic either.

[bulloney]

3. Ted "me too" Cruz is trying to be as outrageous as Trump in appealing to the base.

Part of me says the polling is only done on Republicans and does not reflect the general population, but with all of the money we have in politics these days, we'll see superpac money relentlessly make the Democratic nominee look like a Spawn of Satan and make Trump, Cruz or whomever look heroic and presidential.

I still say Bush will make this "miraculous" recovery next spring and his poll numbers will quickly climb, playing right along with the script all the way to the Republican nomination. And he'll be hailed as this "comeback kid."

And American voters, if they're not complacent, are just plain gullible and hear what they want to believe and will flock to those certain media to affirm those beliefs.

[houston16revival]

4. The Men In White Suits

should be sent to collect these candidates

Full blown full moon lunacy!

[lark]

5. Cruz is almost as crazy as Trump and Carson.

All are scary mf's that would destroy our country if elected. Luckily, I don't think any of them have a chance of winning a general election. Repugs should nominate them at their own peril, but then, they aren't in control of the fear machine they've ginned up. It's taken on a life of it's own.

[dhill926]

7. it'll be fun watching how the nutjob supporters of these nutjobs react...

when they inevitably tack toward the center in the general election...

[Judi Lynn]

9. Pure evil, this kind of ####-flinging. How dare Ted Cruz. How dare this piece of garbage.

You can't get any dirtier than this. I don't think even Trump can out-do this vicious attack.

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Ted Cruz’s "national director for faith and religious liberty." Buddy Pilgrim, for crissakes.[/center]