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Swimware Wrote: Nov 26, 2012 7:05 PM
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/05/17/ron-paul-hookers-and-heroin-the-2012-presidential-candidates-addled-take-on-personal-liberty.html
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Swimware Wrote: Nov 26, 2012 7:04 PM
Asked by Chris Wallace of Fox News about his insistence that “the federal government should stay out of people’s personal habits,” and his specific opposition to restrictions on cocaine, heroin, and prostitution, the candidate claimed that social conservatives would nonetheless vote for him “if they understand my defense of liberty is the defense of their right to practice their religion and say their prayers where they want to practice their life. But if you do not protect liberty across the board it’s the First Amendment-type issue… You know, it’s amazing that we want freedom to pick our future in a spiritual way but not when it comes to our personal habits.”
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