[From an article about Ellen Page's confrontation against Ted Cruz over LGBT rights]

I wish that Cruz and the other Republicans would make a clear distinction between discriminating based on race, which is a benign characteristic that is not predictive of any particular behavior or activity, vs gay activity, which is by definition anything but benign.

They also need to make the case why leaving the authority to decide issues with the states is the most tolerant system of all. In fact, it is only because of states rights on the issue of same sex marriage that the support was able to find early, small scale success that eventually percolated upward and grew into a larger movement. That doesn't mean that everyone should have to capitulate to different beliefs just because a different point of view begins to gain support. No matter how the pendulum swings on social issues, states rights allows minority views to be heard and tolerated, even within only a small community, allowing different people with different deeply held beliefs to live their lives according to their own beliefs and to pursue happiness in their own way. Narrow minded people like Ellen who stay within their own so called 'progressive. communities don't even realize they are trying to force their views on all others who disagree. She doesn't realize that her views discriminate against a different set of people. It is one thing if she wants to use the strength of her argument to change the minds of others, it is quite different when the so called 'progressives' use the courts or an overbearing federal government to short circuit the debate.

There is really only one major exception to that approach that was clearly spelled out in the Constitution which protected the free exercise of religious belief.

I do give her credit for speaking respectfully to Cruz.