[Hoot Gibson]

I heard him say the exact opposite. According to his interview on All Things Considered on NPR the Wednesday afternoon after the election he basically said it was wrong for the Federal Gov't to mandate the Civil Rights Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act and that those matters were handled better through state and Local Gov't.


Here is the exact quote and link to the transcript.


SIEGEL: But it's been one of the major developments in American history in the course of your life. I mean, do you think the '64 Civil Rights Act or the ADA for that matter were just overreaches and that business shouldn't be bothered by people with a basis in law to sue them for redress?
Dr. PAUL: Right. I think a lot of things could be handled locally. For example, I think that we should try to do everything we can to allow for people with disabilities and handicaps. You know, we do it in our office with wheelchair ramps and things like that. I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator. And I think when you get to solutions like that, the more local the better, and the more common sense the decisions are, rather than having a federal government make those decisions.


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...=126985068

I think that Paul has made some contradictory statements on this issue and I disagree on his statement here. One can make a libertarian argument against any government involvement in banning racial discrimination for individuals purely operating in the private sector. However, if you accept the premise that a person's right of freedom of association is trumped by a right not to be shunned by another person or private business, then the federal government is logically the correct entity to enforce that right. We saw what happened when state and local governments in the South legislated on this issue. Civil rights do not change when your cross state or local jurisdictional boundaries.