Ted Cruz Introduces Bill Limiting Pronouns and Names Despite Going by His Own Chosen Name

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Source: The Advocate

Ted Cruz Introduces Bill Limiting Pronouns and Names Despite Going by His Own Chosen Name

Advocates criticized the breathtaking hypocrisy of Cruz’s Safeguarding Honest Speech Act for its potential harm to the LGBTQ+ community and pointed out the irony in his own name choice.

BY CHRISTOPHER WIGGINS
NOVEMBER 29 2023 10:30 AM EST

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, legally named Rafael Edward Cruz, has introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate titled the Safeguarding Honest Speech Act. The legislation proposes prohibiting federal funds from enforcing policies requiring federal employees to use preferred pronouns or names other than an individual’s legal name.

The Safeguarding Honest Speech Act states that the bill is "to prohibit the use of funds to implement, administer, or enforce measures requiring certain employees to refer to an individual by the preferred pronouns of such individual or a name other than the legal name of such individual, and for other purposes."

Cruz introduced the legislation along with U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican from Tennessee.

"Forcing anyone to use pronouns that don’t accord with a person’s biological sex is an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment. As the Supreme Court held, ‘If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion.’ The government has no business compelling anyone to use pronouns that contradict biological reality,” Cruz said in a joint-press release about the bill on November 17.

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Read more: https://www.advocate.com/law/ted-cruz-chosen-names-bill

[NCIndie]

1. Cruz is pandering to the base again.

I find it difficult to reconcile his Harvard education with his endlessly stupid behavior.

[ExciteBike66]

6. Garbage in garbage out

Harvard isn't a miracle working institution

[Deuxcents]

2. Another self imposed issue that has nothing to do with

Infrastructure, wages, education, healthcare, or any other basic needs and services of keeping a government running smoothly.

[DBoon]

3. Will this affect Vincent Damon Furnier?

Will he no longer be able to call himself "Alice Cooper" when touring Texas?

[TwilightZone]

5. He legally changed his name to Alice Cooper.

In 1975, when he started his solo career.

[DBoon]

8. Yes, the bill does require use of a legal name

Regardless of gender.

[TwilightZone]

9. You asked if he could perform as Alice Cooper.

The answer is yes, because that's his legal name.

[Blue Owl]

4. What a crucial issue

[TwilightZone]

7. They really have nothing.

They have nothing to run on, so they waste time with this utter garbage.

It's remarkably transparent, yet the rubes can't see through it. It doesn't even have to pass - he just wants them to know he's still the bigot they know and tolerate.

[GB_RN]

10. It Never Fails...

When Raphael “Ted” Cruz thinks he’s being upstaged, trust him to pull a stunt to get him back in the spotlight (and maybe take the heat off Senator Coach of Something (Q-CTE). And in pulling his stunt, Raphael will always make sure to let everyone know he’s always the biggest asshole in the room. The exception being when Raphael isn’t in the room.

[Jilly_in_VA]

11. Really, RAFAELITO?

What a sly fox you THINK you are...except that from now on you will have to be Sen. Rafael Edward Cruz. Funny how that works, isn't is?

[BootOutTheGoons]

12. Rafael says what?

Sorry Raffy but leaders lead by example. So wake us when you go by Rafael and your correct pronouns which are idiot/jerkass