“Paul has already come out for gay marriage and against the GOP platform on social issues”
Lies and more lies.
Meanwhile, your candidate thinks it’s ok for states to legalize gay marriage if their legislature votes for it:
This legislation is to the left of the current GOP platform, but you don’t seem to have a problem with it.
I posted one of Paul’s own position statements on gay marriage.
You are totally lying about Cruz and his efforts to save DOMA, which Paul opposed and are attempting to relabel our strongest pro-marriage fight, into something the opposite.
Cruz and Lee are trying to tie the hands of the federal government and limit their gay marriage efforts, while Paul has come out with a position to support it and in fact to eliminate social conservatism by the GOP.
This is where Paul was calling for a lie down on gay marriage, before he started calling for the pro-marriage party to call off any fight at all.
Rand Paul’s Same-Sex Marriage Plan: Continue The Debate ‘For Another Couple Of Decades’
“Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) opposes same-sex marriage, but his tactics for doing so are unique. For example, last month he offered a completely unfeasible suggestion to simply erase any mention of marriage from the laws and establish all its protections through various contracts. But he really isn’t interested in taking any steps to help that along. In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network this weekend, he expressed hope that by continuing to allow individual states to decide, the debate on same-sex marriage might continue unresolved for several decades:
PAUL: Where marriage is adjudicated, whether it’s at the federal level or at the state level, we’ve always had marriage certificates and we’ve had them at the state level. If we keep it that way, maybe we can still have the discussion go on without make the decision go all the way one way or all the way the other way.
I think right now if we say we’re only going to have a federally mandated one-man, one-woman marriage, we’re going to lose that battle because the country is going the other way right now. If we were to say each state can decide, I think a good 25, 30 states still do believe in traditional marriage, and maybe we allow that debate to go on for another couple of decades and see if we can still win back the hearts and minds of people.”
In typical contrast between a conservative and a libertarian, Paul is trying to find ways to make gay marriage permanent, and Ted Cruz is seeking ways to oppose it and wound it, in the hopes of defeating it.
After he, Palin, and conservatives lost on DOMA, which Rand was on Obama’s pro-gay marriage side on, Cruz came up quickly with legislation to continue the fight.
“”Teabagger Senators Cruz & Lee Introduce Bill To Ban Feds From Recognizing Out-Of-State Same-Sex Marriages
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Teabagistan) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Teabagistan) today jointly introduced a bill that limits the federal government to only recognizing same-sex marriages that are conducted legally in the state where the married couple resides. Last month a similar House bill, written by the Family Research Council, was introduced by Rep. Randy Weber.””