More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
In an interview with Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz on Monday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie grilled the Texas Senator on his opposition to the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling, equating his stance with being against interracial marriage: “...one thing you also said was that you would support a Texas state clerk who refused to issue a license to a gay couple on religious grounds. Let me ask you this, if a state clerk refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple, would you agree with that, too?”
Cruz replied: “Well, there's no religious backing for that. And one of the things-” Guthrie interrupted him: “But you know that in the Loving vs. Virginia case, which is – struck down the bans on interracial marriage, they used religious arguments to justify that.” Cruz continued: “There's no religious backing for that and I have spent decades fighting against bigotry and racial oppression.”