Texas Senator Ted Cruz on Tuesday
accused the media of being obsessed with sex after fielding several
questions on marriage equality.
The Republican presidential hopeful
sparred with reporters on his way to meet privately with Jefferson
County officials in Beaumont, Texas, according to The
Texas Tribune.
“Is there something about the Left –
and I am going to put the media in this category – that is obsessed
with sex?” Cruz rhetorically asked after being asked 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 is leading the fight against
marriage equality in the Senate, introducing a constitutional
amendment which would exclude gay couples from marriage by defining
the institution as between a man and a woman and a bill which seeks
to prohibit federal courts from ruling on cases related to marriage.
He defended his efforts, calling the
expansion of “mandatory same-sex marriage” an assault on
religious liberty.