2016年共和党可能的总统候选人参议员克鲁兹听闻后的反应：

"Listen, Tim Cook makes his personal decisions, and that is his life. My focus is on the constitutional question of who has the authority to make decisions," he later added.

Cruz said that marriage is a "question for the states" because of the country's federalist system.

"This is something we’ve seen over and over again, which is the federal government and federal courts deciding they don’t trust the people," Cruz said. "They look down on the people, they don’t trust us to make judgments about our own lives, so the federal government and federal courts are going to step in and impose their own policy preferences."

延伸阅读：
Move over, Rick Santorum! Ted Cruz is the GOP’s new anti-gay rock star
http://www.salon.com/2014/10/16/move_over_rick_santorum_ted_cruz_is_the_gops_new_anti_gay_rock_star/