Satanists are apparently irked that former House Speaker John Boehner likened presidential candidate Ted Cruz to the devil.
In an interview for
The Friendly Atheist, a spokesperson for the Satanic Temple made it clear the group does not support the Texas senator for president.
"Cruz's failures of reason, compassion, decency, and humanity are products of his Christian pandering, if not an actual Christian faith," spokesperson Lucien Greaves said.
"It grows tedious when pedophile priests and loathsome politicians are conveniently dismissed as Satanic, even as they spew biblical verse and prostrate themselves before the cross, recruiting the Christian faithful. Satanists will have nothing to do with any of them."
On Thursday,
Boehner blasted Cruz during a discussion at Stanford University.
"Lucifer in the flesh," Boehner said of Cruz. "I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a [expletive] in my life."
Cruz trails Donald Trump in the Republican race for president but is betting on this summer's convention going to a second ballot, which could propel him to the nomination.
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