Ted Cruz Is Tired of Your Big Gay Questions

By Charles Pierce, Esquire

24 May 15

In which we learn that Ted Cruz is tired of your big gay questions.

ust as we notice that Ireland is about to endorse marriage equality, we find ourselves wandering through the stalagmite-studded wasteland that is the mind of Tailgunner Ted Cruz, who has grown tired of you people with your MSNBC-guided gay missile questions while he tries to secure a book dea...er...run for president.

"Is there something about the left — and I am going to put the media in this category — that is obsessed with sex?" Cruz asked after fielding multiple questions on gay rights. "ISIS is executing homosexuals — you want to talk about gay rights? This week was a very bad week for gay rights because the expansion of ISIS, the expansion of radical, theocratic, Islamic zealots that crucify Christians, that behead children and that murder homosexuals — that ought to be concerning you far more than asking six questions all on the same topic." Cruz also said he did not think his opposition to gay marriage will hurt his chances with moderate voters. "With respect, I would suggest not drawing your questions from MSNBC. They have very few viewers and they are a radical and extreme partisan outlet," Cruz told a reporter. He cited the expansion of "mandatory same-sex marriage" as an assault on religious liberty in the United States.

Apparently, Cruz is under the impression that he is running (as a social liberal) for mayor of Ramadi. What is plain is that the very nature of the questions can knock him pretty cleanly off his unsteady rails. This is just nuts.