Ted Cruz said that the Supreme Court's decision on gay marriage was 'clearly wrong'

Sen. Ted Cruz said that the US Supreme Court's decision to legalize gay marriage was 'clearly wrong' and talked about how it could be changed.

“So look, Obergefell, like Roe v. Wade, ignored two centuries of our nation’s history,” the Texas Republican said on his show, “Verdict with Ted Cruz” Saturday. “Marriage was always an issue that was left to the states.” 

Cruz was talking about Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark case that made same-sex marriage legal everywhere in the United States in 2015.

Before the Supreme Court made that decision, "some states were moving to allow gay marriage, and other states were moving to allow civil partnerships," Cruz said. "The states were putting in place different standards."

He did admit that turning it around would cause a lot of legal problems.

“You’ve got a ton of people who have entered into gay marriages and it would be more than a little chaotic for the court to do something that somehow disrupted those marriages,” the senator added.

Cruz's comments came after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade at the end of June. This decision upheld a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy and gave the issue to each of the 50 states to decide.

In his opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas agreed with the decision to overturn Roe and asked the court to look again at rulings that protect gay marriage and access to birth control and maybe overturn them.

“In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell,” he wrote.

Thomas was referring to a 1965 ruling, Griswold v. Connecticut, that allowed married couples to access birth control and a 2003 ruling, Lawrence v. Texas, that banned states from outlawing consensual gay sex.

In the majority opinion that overturned Roe, however, Justice Samuel Alito wrote, "We stress that our decision is only about the constitutional right to abortion and no other right."

Justice Brett Kavanaugh added, "Nothing in this opinion should be taken as putting precedents that don't involve abortion in question."

Cruz said that he doesn't think the court wants to change the decisions Thomas mentioned.

Still, Cruz said that the decision to legalize gay marriage was "overreaching" and "clearly wrong" when it was made.

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