Say something enough times and people believe it. But Ron Paul doesn't vote as he says.
How many times has Ron Paul said the federal government should stay out of marriage? YET Congress is in essence the government for Washington DC, and
Ron Paul voted that as a federal order gays are banned from adopting children.
WORTH REPEATING: Ron Paul voted to ban gays from adopting children.
How's that for non-federal intervention? The federal government will ban you from adopting children?
Ron Paul supports "Don't ask, Don't tell," meaning known gays removed from the military. In his logic was some drivel about how rights come from "the Creator" and then rambles of in his opposition to separation of church-and-state.
Although Ron Paul raged against Rowe V Wade claiming the federal government has no jurisdiction over abortion for decades, he turned around and sponsored legislation to outlaw abortions and now - seeking the Republican nomination - declares that life begins at conception and that any state that wants to outlaw ALL abortions may do so.
Ron Paul claims that abortion is CRIMINAL MURDER and wants citizenship rights to BEGIN AT CONCEPTION.
The reason he has that view is because the government staying out of people's lives doesn't apply to women. Or gays. When it comes to children. If you're gay, he says the government SHALL ban you from children and if you are a woman you are banned from not having children. The most radical of all when it comes to government control over having - or not - children. This, in his view, is singularly the government's decision based upon his religious beliefs, that he wants and attempts over and again to make federal law in any way possible. On this, Ron Paul is the ultimate government control freak. Total government power. Over being a parent or not.
Why does anyone like Ron Paul? - Ashley F. Miller - Open Salon
Why does anyone like Ron Paul? - Ashley F. Miller - Open Salon
Despite the fact that he thinks the education department should be dismantled, he also thinks that public funds should pay for private Christian educations and supports a constitutional amendment in favor of school prayer. Again, not a libertarian stance at all. So while he claims the government spends too much, he thinks that paying the expenses of Christian schools should be by the government.
Not Jewish Schools. Not Muslim or Buddhist schools. Christian schools.
He has a somewhat complex view on
abortion in that he, like murder, should be tried and controlled at the state level, not the federal one. That said, he has voted repeatedly for national bills that promote the pro-life cause and
introduced a bill that would say that life begins at conception.
This conveys all legal and citizenship rights to the fetus. Thus, an abortion would be premediated first degree murder in his view, though he wants states to prosecution. In many, that means the death penalty. It also means there could be NO exceptions allowing abortion including rape or the life of the mother as the fetus has equal full legal and citizen rights.
He voted not to authorize embryonic stem cell research multiple times.
He has a 0% by NARAL, meaning he votes 100% against abortion rights.
He voted yes on the Stupak Amendment to prevent health insurance companies from offering abortion coverage.
Voted to prevent funding from going to schools that make the morning after pill available and to provide funding for abstinence only education.
He cosponsored a bill to take funds from a needy family benefit program to go to support non-governmental groups that counsel people not to have abortions.
Again, how is this not federal interference? What is Libertarian about any of that? Where is constraint on the federal government? The right of individuals to decide rather than government?
