(In order from earliest stand on the issue to most recent view)
- Abortion: His stand on abortion has not changed. He first wanted to protect innocent human life with partial-birth ban. He then supported companies that have the power to deny insuring birth control. Most recently, he opposed public abortion funding and churches that provided birth control.
- Civil Rights: Cruz began by supporting traditional marriage ("one-man-one-woman marriage is a building block of society"). He then disallowed the Ku Klux Klan from participating in Adopt-A-Highway. A year later, he took his stand on supporting traditional marriage by opposing gay pride parades and gay marriage. He voted no on reauthroizing the Violence Against Women Act in Feb. 2013, then sponsored the claim that state definiton of marriage supersedes federal gay marriage a year later. His stand on civil rights has not changed over the past 10 years.
- Crime: Cruz began by supporting the full monitoring of sexual predators and bringing them to justice. He also believes that the World Court should have no say in Texan executions. Ted Cruz has, and still, supports capital punishment.
- Gun Control: Cruz opposes unreasonable and burdensome gun restrictions, opposes restrictions on the 2nd amendment, opposes the UN's Arms Treaty Trade, and voted no on banning high-capacity magazines of over 10 bullets. Growing up in a family that supported guns, Ted Cruz has remained consistent in supporting the legality of guns.
- Welfare & Poverty: Cruz believes strongly that government checks create dependency, which goes hand-in-hand with his repeal and opposition of Obama's fuding programs (Obamacare).
- War & Peace: Ted Cruz has always seen terrorists or threats towards our country as "monsters". He supported the fact that wars in the Middle East went on too long and sponsored shutting down Iranian foreign reserves. In responses towards the ISIS crisis, Cruz wanted to "bomb ISIS back into the stone age" with Congress' approval, and arm/aid the Peshmerga Kurds against ISIS.