Piontek misrepresents Ron Paul’s positions

I enjoyed Anna Piontek’s Sept. 11 column “Ron Paul revolutionaries” about Congressman Dr. Ron Paul. I wanted to point out to you and I hope you would point out to your readers that you have misrepresented some of Dr. Paul’s policy positions. Your article says that Dr. Paul is “anti-gay marriage, and anti-abortion”. If you had taken a few minutes to listen to him on his positions, you would know that while he has personal opinions, he has taken strong and brave stands to uphold individual liberty, including for gays’ rights to have consensual contracts, and in his own words “they may call it anything they like”. Dr. Paul was a practicing OB/GYN, and through this experience he has said that he does not agree with abortion, but again, he has come out to say that it is none of the federal government’s business to pass a law about the issue either way.\nAll of this can be learned by watching Dr. Paul in his own words in a talk at the Google campus. \nI found the statements of “he is anti-gay marriage and anti-abortion” to be very misleading of the policy positions that Dr. Ron Paul is presenting.\nAnd on a point of discussion, rather than correction, the voting record of Ron Paul has been consistent with his views of what the role of the federal government, and according to the Constitution, should be, and he has voted that way consistently for 10 terms in the House. I find that to make him a statesman, rather than a politician. A politician changes his/her view by holding a finger in the wind to see what may benefit them, while a statesman has principles that rule their decision-making process.\nPlease help inform your readers as accurately as possible.