And look up at what I posted above about Ali.
“It is CHARACTER”
-not the color of their skin or the genitalia they “I do” or “I do not anymore” hold to be the family jewelz.
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free at last?

Okay, so it’s a “religious issue” that means that some denominations will acknowledge us as equal and some won’t. So, if my husband dies will the Unitarians make sure I receive his social security? Oh, that’s right – under Paul’s idiotic, quasi-Right Wing social philosophy there WON’T BE ANY social security so I guess it doesn’t matter.

Gays need to get their heads out of the sand on this issue. If this “no taxes” bullshit is having the same effect on people who should know better as it is uneducated Middle-American NASCAR twits (Paul’s base) then there is something dreadfully wrong with the political discourse in this country.

Oh yes, let’s leave it us to the individual states to protect our constitutional rights! You think there are gay ghettos now? Just wait.

Idiots!

You like freedom, liberty peace and sound currency or not?

The bunch of warmonger spending taxing inflating pricks we have running things is SO GREAT right now.

I’m struck by how many people refuse to understand legal theory. Paul doesn’t want the Supreme Court inventing additions to the Constitution…but Paul doesn’t want the states controlling bedroom behavior either. The Supreme Court is not your solution. Libertarians are.

Dude, I know you have to be frustrated with this homophobic country and I know that old white Republicans are especially suspect, but here’s the thing: Democrats are wimps. Right-wingers are (usually) zealots. Only a libertarian wants you to have the freedom to live your life. You asked if Paul said anything about gays that parallels his support of Muhammed Ali, so here’s your answer:

He opposed “Don’t ask don’t tell” because it shouldn’t matter whether you’re gay.

He opposed the Defense of Marriage Act because it shouldn’t matter if you’re gay.

He opposed the Constitutional Amendment to ban same-sex marriage because he just doesn’t care if you’re gay.

Where is the confusion? Go ahead and vote for someone who sheds tears for you rather than someone who cleaves to a theory of governance that will actually benefit you. Just know that you’ll be perpetuating your own problems.

Incidently, Bill Clinton sponsored the first two of those acts….oh, but at least he “felt your pain”.

If Ron Paul had his way, the Texas government’s “right” to regulate Texans’ bedroom behavior would trump citizens’ expectation of privacy.

So much for his supposed support of personal liberty.

“In the economic-technological field, some international cooperation has already been achieved, but further progress will require greater American sacrifices. More intensive efforts to shape a new world monetary structure will have to be undertaken, with some consequent risk to the present relatively favorable American position.”

“The Technocratic Age is slowly designing an every day more controlled society. The society will be dominated by an elite of persons free from traditional values (!) who will have no doubt in fulfilling their objectives by means of purged techniques with which they will influence the behavior of people and will control and watch the society in all details”. “… it will become possible to exert a practically permanent watch on each citizen of the world.”

- Zbigniew Brzezinski, CFR member and founding member of the Trilateral Commission, and National Security Advisor to five presidents

A: “I think the current policy is a decent policy. And the problem that we have with dealing with this subject is we see people as groups, as they belong to certain groups and that they derive their rights as belonging to groups. We don’t get our rights because we’re gays or women or minorities. We get our rights from our creator as individuals. So every individual should be treated the same way. So if there is homosexual behavior in the military that is disruptive, it should be dealt with. But if there’s heterosexual sexual behavior that is disruptive, it should be dealt with. So it isn’t the issue of homosexuality, it’s the concept and the understanding of individual rights. If we understood that, we would not be dealing with this very important problem”
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Tell the truth. Spread the truth. The LBGT community is special because they fight for what they believe in and fight for their personal truth- they are the oppressed minority– they are not “special” because they are gay or bisexual or tranny- they are unique, just like the revolutionaries in that they are fighting for their voices to be heard and understood.

Your Fuhrer is a horrible man and you mindless Ron Cultists are complicit in his racist bullcrap.

http://www.freemarketnews.com/.....?nid=41822

Aside from all this claptrap, his foreign policy thoughts make him the perfect candidate for ’08…1808. He is an isolationist wackjob in a global economy, and that just cannot and will not work. Also, I need more than a candidate who is allegedly genuine…if they’re telling me what they really believe and that belief is crazy, it holds no appeal for me.

In 1967, he was 25 years old. He was the heavyweight champion of the world, and for religious beliefs, he practiced what Martin Luther King made popular, civil disobedience, because he disagreed with the war. I thought his comments were rather astute at the time and were not complex, but he merely said, I have no quarrel with the Viet-Cong. He said the Viet-Cong never called him a name, and because of his religious convictions, he said he did not want to serve in the military. He stood firm, a man of principle, and I really admired this as a quality.

He is known, of course, for his athletic skills and his humanitarian concerns, and these are rightly mentioned in a resolution like this. But I do want to emphasize this because, to me, it was so important and had such impact, in reality, what Muhammad Ali did eventually led to getting rid of the draft, and yet we as a people and we as a Congress still do not have the conviction that Muhammad Ali had, because we still have the selective service; we say, let us not draft now, but when the conditions are right, we will bring back the draft and bring back those same problems that we had in the 1960s.

I see what Muhammad Ali did as being very great. He deserves this recognition, but we should also praise him for being a man of principle and willing to give up his title for 3 years at the age of 25 at the prime of his career. How many of us give up something to stand on principle? He was a man of principle. He believed it and he stood firm, so even those who may disagree with his position may say at least he stood up for what he believed in. He suffereconsequences and fortunately was eventually vindicated.”
-Ron Paul

January 8, 2008 5:28 am EST

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – In response to an article published by The New Republic, Ron Paul issued the following statement:

“The quotations in The New Republic article are not mine and do not represent what I believe or have ever believed. I have never uttered such words and denounce such small-minded thoughts.

“In fact, I have always agreed with Martin Luther King, Jr. that we should only be concerned with the content of a person’s character, not the color of their skin. As I stated on the floor of the U.S. House on April 20, 1999: ‘I rise in great respect for the courage and high ideals of Rosa Parks who stood steadfastly for the rights of individuals against unjust laws and oppressive governmental policies.’

“This story is old news and has been rehashed for over a decade. It’s once again being resurrected for obvious political reasons on the day of the New Hampshire primary.

“When I was out of Congress and practicing medicine full-time, a newsletter was published under my name that I did not edit. Several writers contributed to the product. For over a decade, I have publically taken moral responsibility for not paying closer attention to what went out under my name.”
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Again, I beg you all, this man is NOT a part of the CFR, does NOT attend Bilderberg meetings, is NOT annointed by the MSM or the Corporatocracy, is NOT endorsed by the extremist religious “Let’s kill Chavez Pat Robertson, and believes that sexual orientation, race, gender etc etc should divide us. He has been SAYING THE SAME THING FOR 20 YEARS, introduces a bill to end the corruption of the Federal Reserve, over and over and over, every year, and people like FOX NEWS AND RUPERT MURDOCH fear the man.
Now really,
who are you going to vote for?
when will decide that you want to wake up?
Reality is staring you in the face.
Don’t let your creativity and your uniqueness divide us. Stop being a victim and get on with being a survivor. Fight back. Get mad. Get even. Boot the criminals.

What happened to his libertarian ideal of personal responsibility? Not that anyone here wants to hear it, but saying he takes “moral responsibility” and not full personal responsibility is sleazy, wiggly, and slick language play.

And as for his lovely positions on many issues (unless you happen to be pro-choice, or think that sometimes federal legal action is called for when the states make stupid, discriminatory decisions on their own) when did we start actually believing what politicians promise when they’re running for president?

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If you refuse to look at the actions of a man for temperance of judgment then you truly castrate you mind and make it easy to arrive at wrong conclusion.

The weak minded are easily led by the bridle of emotion.

Racism is not consistent with the philosophy expressed by Ron Paul. He has rebutted these accusations from the same distortions in previous days.

Ron Paul is the only candidate that I would trust with my money and my family’s safety.

I Vote For Virtue; I Vote For Ron Paul !!!

thirdpartywatch.com/2008/01/08/ron-paul-race-smear-erased/

andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/01/ron-paul-respon.html