--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "oneradiantbeing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Authoritarian or Libertarian? Ron Paul on Church/State Separation, > Secularism > > [Taken from: http://atheism.about.com/b/a/259335.htm?nl=1] > > Authoritarian or Libertarian? Ron Paul on Church/State Separation, > Secularism > > Ron Paul is frequently portrayed as a "sensible" conservative and > staunch libertarian, thus making him increasingly attractive as a > presidential candidate. He's being strongly promoted to libertarians, > conservatives fed up with Bush and the Christian Right, and Democrats > dissatisfied with the current crop of Democratic candidates. At the > same time, though, Ron Paul demonstrates the limits of wedding > libertarianism with social and political conservatism. They simply > don't mesh well. > > Ron Paul's consistent anti-war position has made him popular, but how > many people also understand his rejection of secularism and > church/state separation? How many realize that his "states' rights" > rhetoric is a mask concealing a desire to use the government to > promote "traditional marriage" and criminalize abortion? Ron Paul is > only a "libertarian" where and when it's convenient. Much of the rest > of the time, >>
Na, his point is that the States should decide of things like abortion and gay marriage, even though he has his own views on it. That is his constant point. And only paranoid unperceptive people think that if the power for such decisions were given to the states that very few states would vote abortion illegal. It is impossible. I've explained why many times here. In fact, people act as if it is not already the case. Abortion can be made illegal by any state that votes it so...RIGHT NOW ! The Roe Vs Wade did not make abortion legal, it merely stated that the federal government could not make it illegal...but the states could. This is the constitution and that will never change in this country. Same thing for gay marriage. If states vote it as legal, there is precious little the federal could do. Unless you predict a militaristic police state...which will never happen here. Look at legal execution. SOme states have it, some states think it is an abomination. It will be no different with these other issues, and ROn Paul could never be a dictator you are implying. Your post shows complete misunderstanding of the reality on the ground. States decide now, states decide if Ron Paul were in power. Ron Paul is a very smart man that is using the Republican party to get his message across, and he is not a dictator, and he knows what he is doing. He wants the constitution returned so that states can decide
