Rafael Cruz says God helped his son fight Houston’s mayor over an anti-discrimination ordinance

Rafael Cruz, the father of Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R), recently described a prayer rally that his son organized with Houston pastors as the work of God. The rally was held last year amid a legal battle over the city’s new anti-discrimination ordinance.

In an interview with former Tea Party candidate Joe Miller published Monday, Cruz noted that the city of Houston passed an ordinance in 2014 to protect gays, lesbians and transgender people by prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.


Or as Cruz explained it: “The mayor and the city council passed an ordinance that if a man — if he just felt like a woman today, he had the right to walk into a women’s bathroom. And if a woman in that bathroom objected, he could sue her for violating his civil rights. That’s crazy. That is absolutely crazy.”

Cruz warned that high school football teams would pretend to be transgender so they could harass or sexually assault women in the locker room.

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