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Rand Paul Says America Needs A "Spiritual Cleansing"
CBN News ^ | 04/10/2013 | David Brody

Posted on 04/10/2013 8:16:17 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

In an exclusive interview with The Brody File, Senator Rand Paul says America needs a, “spiritual cleansing of the people” and explains that “salvation” doesn’t come through elected leaders.

The Brody File spent a couple days with Rand Paul and his family down in Kentucky. Rand Paul’s wife (Kelley Paul) sat for the interview as well at their home in Bowling Green Kentucky.

The national profile on him (including an interview with his wife) will air on The 700 Club Thursday. We are releasing some clips ahead of the interview. We will also release more clips on Thursday. Much of this material is NOT in the final 700 Club piece.

Also, watch our Brody File show this week where we devote the entire thirty minutes to our Rand Paul coverage. Watch here.

Senator Rand Paul: “I think it’s important that people know that for the country to get better it needs more than just politicians. Politicians aren’t enough and it needs resurgence through churches, through revivals through a spiritual cleansing of the people."

Senator Rand Paul: “Changing a particular law is not going to make us a better people but that comes from the people themselves.”

Senator Rand Paul: “I don’t want people to think that salvation comes through elected leaders. It doesn’t.”

Senator Rand Paul:  “What’s the number one cause of poverty in America? It’s having kids before you’re married. Can you have a law to prevent that? I don't think any law even if you did have a law couldn't prevent it from happening. We have to convince kids that it's a big huge mistake not only from a religious point of view but from an economic point of view that it's not a good idea to have kids before you're married. The hard part is then people say you’re harsh and you’re against single moms. Well, I’m not against single moms. I just want to talk to them before they become the single mom. I want to talk to them when they’re 17 years old and convince them wait, get married and your life will be better and it’s a better way to do things.”

Senator Rand Paul: "People say you shouldn't talk about moral issues. Well, I think there are moral issues that no law will be able to fix but there's no reason why a political leader can't also have some impact in moral issues that really the law may not be able to fix but maybe by me saying that the marriage unit, the marriage unit, the family unit is an important structure, it's been with us for thousands of years and we shouldn't give up on that."


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To: onyx

Beat me to it. The brainwashed moral purists will never understand that granting the federal government that much power is an abomination.


61 posted on 04/10/2013 11:38:51 AM PDT by randomhero97 ("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
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To: randomhero97

Our Founders had it right.
They knew the treachery of a over powering central government.


62 posted on 04/10/2013 11:42:45 AM PDT by onyx
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To: Responsibility2nd; onyx; frogjerk
I can not support a candidate who waives the white flag while “leaving it to the state”.

A number of states already have same-sex "marriage" - what would a candidate you could support do about that?

63 posted on 04/10/2013 11:42:54 AM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies ("The Lord has removed His judgments against you" - Zep. 3:15)
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To: randomhero97
OOOOps, I missed the n.
Of an over powering.
64 posted on 04/10/2013 11:44:04 AM PDT by onyx
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To: randomhero97; onyx

I’m safely assuming you two have no problem with murder being OK federally?

Abortion and queer marrriages go far beyond the local and state level of critical importance. Our nation’s future depend on how we answer this - from a FEDGOV level.

But I guess you “brainwashed (im)moral purists will never understand that”.


65 posted on 04/10/2013 11:45:31 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: randomhero97

I don’t see abortion nor gay marriage defined in the Constitution so it seems to me that these two issues should be deferred to the states.

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And I don’t see the Consitution defining if queers can serve in the military either. So is that OK with you as well?


66 posted on 04/10/2013 11:49:32 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Thank you - I’ve really been MIA as far as pinging (or reading on FR) goes lately. Just too much going on. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll be able to set aside a block of time, there is certainly tons of material to be pinged.

I always appreciate being alerted to articles.


67 posted on 04/10/2013 11:52:26 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Responsibility2nd; randomhero97; onyx
I’m safely assuming you two have no problem with murder being OK federally?

It already is - the only federal murder statutes have a specifically federal element such as a federal LEO as victim, a crossing of state lines, etc. As a general rule, the police power has always been at the state level.

68 posted on 04/10/2013 11:53:47 AM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies ("The Lord has removed His judgments against you" - Zep. 3:15)
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To: JustSayNoToNannies; Responsibility2nd; frogjerk
A number of states already have same-sex "marriage" - what would a candidate you could support do about that?

CA voters said NO, to homosexual marriage every time it was put on the ballot.

Judicial fiat interfered and that's why CA's case is in the hands of SCOTUS.

As for the other states, it's my understanding that several of those states were also determined by judicial fiat, not the people.

I favor candidates who respect the Tenth Amendment and our Constitution. I greatly admire Justice's Scalia, Thomas and Alito.


69 posted on 04/10/2013 11:54:05 AM PDT by onyx
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To: Responsibility2nd; randomhero97

You’re getting absurd now.

Kidnapping was made a federal crime due to the Lindberg baby’s kidnap/murder, so that the better equipped FBI could handle investigations.

FWIW, I had and have no problem with the Defense of Marriage Act, and I think omitting God from the argument is a huge and stupid mistake.


70 posted on 04/10/2013 11:58:33 AM PDT by onyx
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To: onyx; Responsibility2nd; frogjerk
it's my understanding that several of those states were also determined by judicial fiat, not the people.

Washington, Maryland, New York, Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire legislated same-sex "marriage" with no judicial involvement. What, if anything, do you favor the federal government doing about that?

71 posted on 04/10/2013 12:05:22 PM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies ("The Lord has removed His judgments against you" - Zep. 3:15)
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To: JustSayNoToNannies

Well, there ya go: legislated.

Unlike CA, the voters didn’t decide.

It’s my understanding that every time homosexual marriage has been on the ballot, it’s been rejected.


72 posted on 04/10/2013 12:12:48 PM PDT by onyx
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To: JustSayNoToNannies

You might call it what it is: homosexual marriage.
Same sex - my gosh, the pablum language the invoke.


73 posted on 04/10/2013 12:14:06 PM PDT by onyx
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To: onyx
Washington, Maryland, New York, Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire legislated same-sex "marriage" with no judicial involvement. What, if anything, do you favor the federal government doing about that?

It’s my understanding that every time homosexual marriage has been on the ballot, it’s been rejected.

Legislators are on the ballot. What, if anything, do you favor the federal government doing about legislated same-sex "marriage" in Washington, Maryland, New York, Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire?

74 posted on 04/10/2013 12:16:59 PM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies ("The Lord has removed His judgments against you" - Zep. 3:15)
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To: onyx
same-sex "marriage"

You might call it what it is: homosexual marriage.
Same sex - my gosh, the pablum language the invoke.

The quotation marks aren't a strong enough statement for you? BTW, "homosexual" derives from the Greek for "same sex." This is America - speak English! ;-D

75 posted on 04/10/2013 12:19:07 PM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies ("The Lord has removed His judgments against you" - Zep. 3:15)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Sorry Rand (sitting) the sprirituality of the citizenry is not within the purview of the State - it is the responsibility of the Individual, and the natural family.


"...who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time;
 
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 that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. "
 
"I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"
--The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
--Thomas Jefferson, 1786
 

76 posted on 04/10/2013 12:23:24 PM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: onyx
Washington, Maryland, New York, Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire legislated same-sex "marriage" with no judicial involvement.

Correction: Maine enacted it via referendum. (And Washington and Maryland passed referenda upholding previous legislation enacting it.)

77 posted on 04/10/2013 12:25:45 PM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies ("The Lord has removed His judgments against you" - Zep. 3:15)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Maybe. The challenges are greater now, though. It seems those who are opposed to traditional values cannot take us to hell fast enough.

It seems so easy on the surface: liberty for all but choose the moral path. For the individual, yes. But I’m thinking in terms of a candidacy. The libertarians will despise him if he favors legislation based on morals, and the traditional-values people will hate him if he doesn’t. I’m thinking politically here.


78 posted on 04/10/2013 12:27:39 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: JustSayNoToNannies

Barry Goldwater was right. I agreed with him then and now: cut off the Eastern seaboard and send it to sea....LOL.


79 posted on 04/10/2013 12:50:46 PM PDT by onyx
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To: NoGrayZone

“If your answer is no, they why would you proclaim such a thing”.

Because that is the libertarian mindset. Never forget who he supported for president last year. He supported and worked hard on his old man’s campaign, who supports homo-”marriage”, sodomy in the military and the legalization of all drugs. The apple does not fall far from the tree.


80 posted on 04/10/2013 1:26:11 PM PDT by NKP_Vet ("The only glory in war is surviving")
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