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AUSTIN, Texas (LifeSiteNews) – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has condemned the Supreme Court decision to legalize gay marriage as “clearly wrong.”
During a July 16 episode of his podcast Verdict, Cruz spoke with conservative pundit Liz Wheeler regarding the legal vulnerabilities of Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark 2015 case that allowed for the nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage.
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The junior U.S. Senator for Texas made these remarks just weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Roe, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion.
Cruz stated that both the Roe and Obergefell cases “ignored two centuries of our nation’s history. Marriage was always an issue that was left to the states.”
“We saw states before Obergefell that were moving. Some states were moving to allow gay marriage. Other states were moving to allow civil partnerships,” he continued. “There were different standards that the states were adopting, and had the court not ruled in
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