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Watch A CNN Reporter Corner Rand Paul On His Gay Marriage Stance

Screen Shot 2015-04-13 at 1.53.52 PMBuckle up for a long season of Republican presidential candidates tap dancing around issues in order to appeal to the party’s conservative base.

On today’s episode, Rand Paul tries to align his ‘libertarianism’ with his outspoken position that same-sex marriage should be illegal.

CNN’s Dana Bash sat down with Paul, confronting him on his promise to New Hampshire voters that he’d “fight for your right to be left alone.”

“Why do you believe — just as a core principle as a libertarian — that people should be left alone, but not when it comes to their right to marry someone they love?” Bash logically asks the presidential hopeful.

“I do believe people ought to be left alone,” Paul says. “I don’t care who you are, what you do at home or who your friends are, where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to. What you do in your home is your own business. That’s always been who I am. I am a leave-me-alone kind of guy.”

“But not when it comes to marriage,” Bash pushes.

“Well, no, the states will end up making the decisions on these things,” Paul replies. “I think there’s a religious connotation to this. I also believe people ought to be treated fairly under the law. I see why if the marriage contract conveys certain things, that if you want to marry another woman, you can do that and have a contract. But the thing is that the religious connotation of marriage that has been going on for thousands of years, I still want to preserve that.”

“And you probably could have both,” he adds. “You could have both the traditional marriage, which I believe in and then you could also have the neutrality of the law that allows people to have contracts with another.”

There you have it. Rand Paul: anti-gay marriage, pro-gay contracts?

Watch the back-and-forth below:

h/t Raw Story

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