Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Saturday said he believes the U.S. Supreme Court was overreaching and clearly wrong when it legalized same-sex marriage across the country in the 2015 landmark Obergefell v. Hodges decision.

Cruz was speaking on his podcast about the differences between that case and the Supreme Courts recent decision that overturned Roe v. Wade , which had previously protected abortion rights nationwide. He criticized the court for preventing individual states from deciding for themselves whether same-sex marriage should be allowed.

Obergefell, like Roe v. Wade, ignored two centuries of our nations history. Marriage was always an issue that was left to the states, he said. In Obergefell, the court said no, we know better than you guys do, and now every state must sanction and permit gay marriage. I think that decision was clearly wrong when it was decided. It was the court overreaching.