In response to Uganda now passing one of the most horrendous anti LGBTQ bills.
Which would impose the death penalty for some members of that community.
Ted Cruz, of all people, a Republican, a conservative Republican at that,
has come out to condemn the new law.
This is what he wrote via Twitter the Uganda law is horrific and wrong.
Any law criminalizing home sexuality or imposing the death penalty for
aggravated homosexuality is grotesque and an abomination.
All civilized nations should join together in condemning this human
rights abuse #LGBTQ.
I don't know what happened to Ted Cruz.
This is not a tweet I would expect from him.
>> I know him.
>> Go ahead. >> Okay, so first of all, actions matter.
So credit where credit is due, no problem.
I don't care why he did it, as long as he's doing the right thing.
But if you wanna know why he did it, there's two reasons why.
One, Republicans have gay donors, and
those donors get upset about stuff like this.
And so that's why some of the politicians are more reasonable than their base,
as you're about to see, on issues like this.
The second reason is he's got polling saying that he's in a lot of trouble
in Texas.
So that's why he did a piece with NBC News a month ago saying about, no,
I'm a real moderate.
Ted Cruz bragging about being a moderate.
>> That's amazing.
>> A moderate.
>> He got elected as a Tea Party conservative,
meaning further right than the mainstream Republican Party at the time.
>> And his big calling card now is,
no one licks Donald Trump's boots better than he does, okay.
His tongue is, >> True
>> Coarse, with how much he's licked
those boots.
>> Absolutely.
>> But all of a sudden, you get some bad polling in Texas and
you wanna protect the LGBTQ community.
Funny how that turns out, but I'll take it.
But apparently his base won't.
>> Well, okay, so there's his base, which he got plenty of backlash
on Twitter from ordinary people after he made this statement.
But let's focus on people who aren't so ordinary,
including Jenna Ellis, who was Trump's lawyer.
The same person who tried to help him overturn the election.
This lunatic, okay, well, what did she have to say about it?
Quote, you can condemn a law that imposes the death penalty for
homosexuality without being pro LGBTQ like Bud Light.
You should have just said nothing, not this.
>> So protecting gay people's lives, like even saying, hey,
maybe we shouldn't kill them.
Maybe we shouldn't murder them.
A bridge too far.
How dare you speak out verbally and say they shouldn't be murdered?
>> Now, she must have gotten a little bit of backlash after she made that statement.
And she responded to the backlash by saying for the commenters,
I stand with Uganda on this.
Because the definition of aggravated homosexuality subject to the death penalty
is raping children.
By the way, that's not true.
And Ted Cruz is about to debunk her but hold on.
She also continues to say, why would Cruz be against this anyway?
And what does this have to do with LGBTQ?
Absolutely stupid comment.
Well, he responds to her, quote, tweets her and says, Jenna,
not sure why you're defending this barbaric Ugandan law.
It imposes life imprisonment for consenting adults who engage in gay sex.
That's ridiculous.
You or I may or may not agree with their choices, but
consenting adults should not go to jail for what they do in their own bedrooms.
Which, I mean, obviously I agree with that wholeheartedly.
Your explanation for
what's likely motivating that comment from Ted Cruz makes a lot of sense.
But nonetheless, I'm glad he's making that point.
>> Yeah, absolutely.
But Jenna Ellis is not alone.
Almost every tweet I read in social media from right wingers.
Whether it was attacking Ted Cruz and
there were tons of them attacking Ted Cruz.
Or anywhere else in social media was like, what's the big deal, man?
One day go with the same line, it's just for a death penalty for raping children.
No, straight people who rape children don't get the death penalty in Uganda.
And the law is way broader than that on the execution side,
let alone what Ted Cruz is saying.
Even if you put aside the execution side.
You get life imprisonment for
just having making a lifestyle choice on who you would like to go to bed with.
>> Right, so let me be clear on what the death penalty provision of the law says.
The Anti Homosexuality Act of 2023 punishes with death
those found guilty of aggravated homosexuality.
A category broadly defined by legislators to include
offenses that range from having sex with a minor.
To seducing someone through misrepresentation or undue influence.
It is purposely broad to be able to implement this
law toward members of the gay community.
And potentially sentence them to the death penalty.
>> So if all they were doing was misquoting the law,
that would be very normal for right wingers.
Cuz there are leaders like Jenna Ellis will lie to them and
pretend that's what this law is about, right.
But they don't stop there.
Then I saw tons and tons of comments saying, what's the big deal, man?
Why don't you leave Uganda alone?
You should be focusing on America.
Uganda, let them run their own business.
>> Yeah, no, by the way, okay, I agree.
Then the American evangelicals who spent tens of millions of dollars and
lobbied for this bill in Uganda shouldn't have done that, right.
This is a law that was heavily influenced by fundamentalists
here in the United States.
>> Yeah and they say, look,
at least Uganda is doing something about morality issues.
We should be doing that here.
Okay, so tell me you're not against LGBTQ people.
Come on, get out.
Why are you bothering to lie about it?
All right, we all know who you are.
So right wingers, don't ever say that you're look, but
if you're like Ted Cruz, I mean, this is the lowest bar ever.
Hey, I don't want to execute gay people, but I'll take it.
But if you're in the camp that says these outrageous things, you don't get to say
that you're fair or that you believe in equal rights, you don't.
You're a monster, and you hate these people.
All right, let me ask you one last thing.
Let's bring up the Tesla pictures.
I saw this over the weekend at the mall.
This is a place where they're selling Teslas, and they have the pride flag.
They have the pride as a thing on Tesla, etc.
I said, that's wonderful.
That's great.
No problem.
I was there with my kids.
My kids saw it.
Kids get into this car.
Kids see this car.
>> Were they scandalized?
>> They were not scandalized.
But if you're a right winger wait, why aren't you scandalized?
I thought it was about protecting the children.
They can't ever see a message like that.
Do you guys just attack target because children would see a message about pride?
>> Are you saying Tesla should be next?
Look, I don't believe in this insanity, but apparently you guys do.
Why isn't Elon Mouse canceled?
Elon Musk spreading the message to my children.
My poor children at the mall had to see that maybe everyone should have
equal rights.
That maybe we should be fair to everyone and decent to everyone.
And I know, right wingers, you despise that idea.
Why aren't you canceling Elon Musk?
That's right cuz you guys are hypocrites, and you don't mean anything you say.