We’ve already met Rafael Cruz, the dominionist Pastor who is the father of Senator Shutdown, aka Ted Cruz. The older Cruz has some truly bizarre ideas, for example, he is a theocrat believing in the rule of divinely anointed kings rather than their pesky subjects like, say, the signers of the Declaration of Independence. But to see where he comes from (quite literally), it may be useful to learn a bit about on the good pastor:
Cruz’s father, who was born in 1939 in Matanzas, Cuba, as Robert T. Garrett of the Dallas Morning News has described, “suffered beatings and imprisonment for protesting the oppressive regime” of dictator Fulgencio Batista. He fought for communist revolutionary Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution when he was 14 years old, but “didn’t know Castro was a Communist.”…The elder Cruz fled Cuba in 1957 at the age of 18, landing in Austin to study at the University of Texas, knowing no English and with $100 sewn into his underwear… The elder Cruz worked his way through college as a dishwasher, making 50 cents an hour, earning a degree in mathematics. Cruz’s father today is a pastor in Carrollton, Texas, a Dallas suburb, and became a U.S. citizen in 2005.
It seems that Our Heavenly Father has been good to Mr Cruz, if not to many others. From a dish-washing immigrant to a megachurch pastor is quite a step-up. And Mr Cruz is certainly returning the favor: while we first learned about his affection for the unholy medieval-style king-priest alliances, now we learn that he also embraces “birtherism”.
http://youtu.be/aY8nGtLI2sQ
How nice. So the guy who has been a US citizen only since 2005 wants to send the president “back” to Kenya! Well we can’t blame him too much, maybe he doesn’t know the president can’t go “back” to Kenya because he wasn’t born there. Just like he “didn’t know” that Castro was a communist.
