OPINION: Ted Cruz slammed Uganda for instituting the death penalty for gays. Pastor Tom Ascol retorted with a Bible quotation.
Sen. Ted Cruz“This Uganda law is horrific & wrong,” the Texas Republican tweeted on May 2. “Any law criminalizing homosexuality or imposing the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’ is grotesque & an abomination. ALL civilized nations should join together in condemning this human rights abuse.”
"If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. —Leviticus 20:13”Cruz did not reply to Ascol’s tweet, which certainly seemed to suggest that the execution of gay people had a biblical blessing.
Ascol, who did not respond to a Daily Beast request for comment, has taken a similarly extreme position before. DeSantis, Ascol says, “seems to be a man of sincere faith.” In his opening prayer at DeSantis’ second inauguration, Ascol described the governor as anointed by the Almighty.
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