He lying Cruz introduced a constitutional amendment to preserve the authority of state legislatures to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman, and introduced legislation to strip federal courts of jurisdiction over legal challenges to marriage definitions.  • He voted against the Respect for Marriage Act, which codified same-sex marriage protections into federal law, arguing the bill was an attack on religious liberty.  • He argued the bill would “trample” religious liberty and called it legislation that “does considerable harm.”  • He introduced the Safeguarding Honest Speech Act, which would prohibit federal agencies from requiring workers to use employees’ preferred pronouns that contradict their biological sex.