This conference happened a year and a half ago but we thought it would be interesting to remind our readers of past positions of Ted Cruz during these heated Presidential US elections
While the nation watched President Obama primetime address the threat
of ISIS Wednesday night, something else was happening in Washington:
Senator Ted Cruz was getting booed off the stage of a Christian event.
Cruz is often considered a rising darling of the American Christian
right. He speaks at evangelical gatherings in the country, talks to
groups of conservative pastors and headlines events with the Family
Research Council. But Wednesday night, his Christian audience was
largely Eastern and Arab. The brand of conservative, American
evangelicalism that Cruz often champions—one that often aligns itself
with the state of Israel’s interests—did not sit well with everyone in
attendance.
Cruz was keynoting a gala for In Defense of Christians (IDC), an
advocacy and awareness group that aims to bring the U.S.’s attention to
the plight of ancient Christian communities in the Middle East, and to
protect the rights of other religious minority groups in the region.
This week, IDC is hosting a three-day Summit, a conference bringing
together a range of Middle Eastern Christians—Orthodox, Catholic,
Coptic, Syriac, Lebanese, Assyrian, to name a few—to foster a new sense
of unity in the midst of a politically fraught season. Most of the
panels at the summit are of a religious nature, but a handful of
political leaders are slated gave remarks as well, including Senator Rob
Portman (R-OH). Former Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood was
Wednesday’s gala’s master of ceremonies, but Cruz was tapped to give a
keynote.
