Ted Cruz Is Defending Gay People Now? What Timeline Is This?

File this under “stories that prove hell has officially frozen over,” because Senator Ted Cruz just became the unexpected voice of reason during Pride Month.

After far-right Rep. Andy Ogles kicked off June by tweeting that “homosexuality has no place in America,” Cruz was asked by TMZ if he agreed with the statement. Instead of taking the bait or offering a canned “no comment,” Cruz—shockingly—pushed back.

“I think for all of recorded history, homosexuals have been part of humanity. I’ve got to say that I’m quite libertarian by nature. I think the behavior of consenting adults is their business,” Cruz said.

Pardon?

Yes, this is the same Ted Cruz who spent last June desperately trying to rebrand Pride Month as an anti-abortion “Life Month.” This is the guy who famously called the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision to legalize gay marriage “some of the darkest hours in our nation’s history” and “clearly wrong.” It seems Cruz might have discovered the concept of “minding your own business,” a philosophy he usually reserves exclusively for Texas power grid failures.

Naturally, the internet did not let him off the hook for this sudden burst of baseline human decency. Social media blew up with hilarious, deeply skeptical reactions.

Ted Cruz defending the gays, and it’s only the first week of pride month. https://t.co/gFUgOnb71M

— Jaron Zhou (@ZhouJaron) June 3, 2026

Some users pondered how abysmal Cruz’s favorability numbers must be to force him into such an obvious, frantic flip-flop. 

HOW BAD ARE THEIR INTERNALS?! pic.twitter.com/s3Gf8Qspoh

— Polling USA (@USA_Polling) June 2, 2026

Others speculated that Cruz’s teen daughter, Caroline—who publicly came out as bisexual on TikTok in 2022—may have finally gotten through to him. Caroline previously went viral for saying that she “really disagrees with most of his views.”

Ted Cruz was once one of the most conservative Senators.

Then he became a neocon.

Then Ted Cruz’s daughter came out as gay.

Now he’s a soulless gay affirming Christian Zionist neocon.

What a story of at selling out of both faith and country. https://t.co/CeoD1TJqMT

— Evangelical Dark Web (@EvangelicalDW) June 3, 2026

Unbelievably, Ted Cruz wasn’t the only GOP lawmaker to find Ogles’ “no place in America” rhetoric too extreme for the main stage. Republican Rep. Mike Lawler of New York spoke directly to Ogles on X.

“Homosexuality exists. In America,” Lawler wrote. “In fact Andy, you have family, friends, neighbors, colleagues and constituents who are gay and lesbian. It doesn’t make them less than or somehow unworthy of being an American. What an absolutely idiotic statement to make.”

But the absolute chef’s kiss of this entire circus came from disgraced former congressman George Santos. Santos took a brief intermission from denying insider trading charges to rebuke Ogles’ celebration of “Nuclear Family Month.”

“As much as I support the Nuclear family and how fundamental it is for life, I never thought I’d hear a person I consider a friend say there is no place for me in this country simply because of who I chose to love,” Santos tweeted, apparently forgetting that his former colleagues didn’t think there was a place for him in Congress either. 

Facing an avalanche of backlash from both sides of the aisle, Ogles ultimately deleted the post, and later addressed it, blaming someone from his “comms team” and saying it was “stupid, hurtful and a complete distraction” from his otherwise MAGA agenda. Happy Pride Month to everyone, but especially to whatever aide had to explain to Andy Ogles that his tweet was too homophobic even for Ted Cruz.