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07.23.2008 7:21am EDT
(St. Paul, Minnesota) Supporters of maverick Rep. Ron Paul who are organizing a rally as an alternative to the Republican National Convention are moving their crosstown event to a larger venue.
The Rally for the Republic featuring Paul – the Texas conservative failed in his bid to win the GOP nomination for president – is scheduled for Minneapolis’ Target Center, home of basketball’s Minnesota Timberwolves.The Target Center can accommodate at least 15,000 people for such an event. Planners for the Paul event had originally considered a college basketball arena that seats about 11,000 people.
Paul is scheduled to speak during the 10-hour rally on Sept. 2, local coordinator Marianne Stebbins said. That’s the second day of the four-day GOP convention.
“We have two different goals,” Stebbins said Tuesday. “They’re there for their political convention to nominate their candidate. We’re supplementing it. Liberty is getting short shrift right now. We’re giving our people a place to go for those days.”
The Republican National Convention is set for Sept. 1-4 at St. Paul’s Xcel Energy Center and is expected to culminate with John McCain’s nomination.
Ron Paul, the only member of congress I know of that actually supports and understands the United States Constitution, until he gets to the religion part. I am a firm believer in our constitution but that sets me at odds with the LGBT community. The LGBT community largely supports only democrats because they believe dems are gay friendly.
The LGBT community has a big problem, Obama says he is for gay rights but does not support our liberties given to us by our constitution. Therefore if he does not support individual liberties how can there be gay rights? Obama is all about pretent freedoms.
On the other hand Ron Paul is the biggest supporter in Washington for our liberties but he will not support gay rights.
It comes down to every American citizen standing up for our constitutional freedoms, this is the only way the LGBT community will ever see complete freedom from religious rule.
I will support Ron Paul and then challange him in the courts. Ron Paul will work to make sure I still have a voice therefore I can shut down the religious rule as the constitution forbids religious rule in just one amendment. What a conundrum we are faced with.
Ron Noga, Here here! I agree with you. The dems talk a good talk about equality but the members of the non-heterosexual, transgendered and intergendered communities are the first ones to be thrown under the bus for traction when times get hard.
The American education systems and mass media have done a poor job in teaching constitutional governance but has excelled in instilling socialist ideas in the American people. Americans have no one to blame for the mess that we are in but ourselves; because of our laziness in seeking knowledge and understanding of how the forefathers set up the political system to protect individual rights and limiting the scope and authority of government. Put I guess I am preaching to the chorus