Ted Cruz Picks Right-Wing Extremist To Lead Virginia Campaign

[struggle4progress]

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Tuesday, 12/1/2015 1:50 pm

Fresh off announcing endorsements from radical anti-choice and anti-gay activists, Ted Cruz announced his Virginia Leadership Team last week, naming state Sen. Richard “Dick” Black as his state campaign co-chair ...

As a state delegate, Black appeared to deny the existence of marital rape: “I do not know how on earth you could validly get a conviction of a husband-wife rape, where they’re living together, sleeping in the same bed, she’s in a nightie and so forth, there’s no injury, there’s no separation or anything” ...

He is also an opponent of contraceptives, calling for a law that would outlaw the morning-after pill and referring to emergency contraception as “baby pesticide” ...

He once tried to mandate that adoption agencies inquire whether prospective parents are “known to engage in current voluntary homosexual activity” and attacked a state initiative to make it easier for gay couples, who were not allowed to legally marry at the time, and other unmarried couples to apply for home mortgages by insisting that Virginia “is now spending $90 million to subsidize sodomy and adultery” and having tax dollars go towards “supporting a radical homosexual agenda” ...

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ted-cruz-picks-right-wing-extremist-lead-virginia-campaign

[Frustratedlady]

1. Are their brains programmed to only consider issues that have to do with sex?

I've never seen such a group so obsessed with sex as the Republicans. Do they ever think of anything else? Abortion, contraceptives, gay activities, rape, incest and pedophilia is all they can talk about. The normal person has a wider range of interest aimed toward the progressive advancement of the human race. They are like a needle on a phonograph that's stuck on one groove. Jeez, lighten up.

[hobbit709]

3. I think it's because they probably never had an enjoyable sexual experience in their lives.

[hobbit709]

2. I'd only be surprised if he didn't pick a RW loon.