Republican presidential candidate Ted
Cruz has won the endorsement of yet another opponent of LGBT rights.
Matt Barber, founder of the website
BarbWire.com, has endorsed Cruz's bid for the White House.
“I am now proud to publicly endorse
for president of the United States Sen. Ted Cruz, the man who best
personifies the anti-establishment, principle over perceived
pragmatism, survival over political correctness mood of the American
electorate,” Barber
wrote in an op-ed. “I believe, God willing, that Sen. Cruz, a
constitutional stalwart and steadfast statesman, is here 'for a time
such as this.' He alone, in the spirit of Reagan v. Carter, can, in
my estimation, mop the floor in the general election with Hillary
Clinton (aka, Obama in a pantsuit).”
Writing at Right
Wing Watch, Kyle Mantyla reminded readers that Barber “has
called for the passage of Russian-style anti-gay laws in America and
has said that he has been 'called by God' to tell gays that AIDS is
God's punishment for their sin and that it is his mission to wipe out
the 'sexually immoral scourge of same-sex marriage.'”
Barber's endorsement comes after the
National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the nation's largest group
working to undermine the Supreme Court's June finding that gay and
lesbian couples have a constitutional right to marry, Bob
Vander Plaats, an influential conservative leader in Iowa, and
James
Dobson, founder of the Christian conservative Focus on the
Family, endorsed Cruz for president.